Northern California power turned off again due to fire danger
Pacific Gas & Electric turned off electricity Wednesday for about 120,000 people in Northern California to prevent power lines from sparking wildfires during a new bout of windy, warm weather. However, favorable weather allowed the nation's largest utility to drastically reduce the number of customers ...
Shooting deaths rattle small, tight-knit Hmong community in California
Fresno has been the heart of California's Hmong community for decades, drawing refugees from war-torn Southeast Asia who built a tight-knit population in the farm town. Now they're reeling from the shooting deaths of four Hmong American men at a weekend party. The central California ...
High school remembers victims as California shooter dies; motive remains a mystery
A 16-year-old boy planned the attack that killed two students and wounded three others at his Southern California high school, but investigators have yet to uncover the motivation for him to bring a handgun to campus and open fire shortly after his mother dropped ...
Student guns down two, wounds three at California high school before shooting himself
A Southern California high school student killed two classmates and wounded three on Thursday, pulling a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun from his backpack and emptying it in a matter of seconds as the school day began. He saved the last bullet for himself. It was ...
California reveals Facebook probe, saying social media firm stonewalling probe
California revealed for the first time an 18-month investigation into Facebook Inc's privacy practices and accused the social media giant in a court filing on Wednesday of hampering the investigation. Revelation of the probe is the latest bad news for Facebook, which is already under ...
Gang-linked murder suspects who fled California jail are recaptured
Two murder suspects who escaped from a California jail over the weekend were arrested by federal officials, authorities said Wednesday. The Monterey County Sheriff's Office said in a tweet that Jonathan Salazar, 20, and Santos Fonseca, 21, were arrested by Customs and Border Protection officials. ...
Trump threatens to withhold emergency aid from fire-ravaged California
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened once again Sunday to withhold federal aid from California after its Democratic governor criticized his environmental policies. Over the past two weeks, fires have ravaged nearly 40,000 hectares in the sprawling state, where firefighters on Sunday were battling the Maria ...
Firefighters beat back Southern California wildfire as winds ease
Firefighters working overnight to contain a Southern California wildfire made significant headway on Sunday, containing 50 percent of the blaze with the aid of cooler weather and lighter winds after it burned thousands of acres of dry brush and farmland. The Maria Fire, which broke ...
Airbnb bans 'party houses' after deadly shooting in California
Airbnb's boss announced Saturday that the online platform, which offers private homes for rent for short periods, is banning "party houses" after a deadly shooting at a Halloween event in California. Five people were killed and others wounded in a Thursday night shooting in Orinda, ...
Crews fought a pitched battle against the last remaining large wildfire in Southern California on Saturday as the stubborn flames threatened nearly 2,000 homes and other buildings. The fire that erupted on a hilltop northwest of Los Angeles headed for what would be its third ...
In the dark: Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage amid wildfire threat
One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. Others got disoriented, even in their own apartments, and cried out for help. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the ...
California endures more wildfires, including one sparked by a hot-wired car
A stolen car sparked a wildfire in a bone-dry field Thursday as two of Southern California's quintessential themes — car chases and gusty Santa Ana winds — collided with potentially devastating consequences. The hot car ignited dry grass in a field in the city of ...
