Author: Brian Melley
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Wildfires outside L.A. threaten homes, spare Reagan library
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. • A wind-whipped outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles on Wednesday threatened thousands of homes and horse ranches, forced the smoky evacuation of elderly patients in wheelchairs and narrowly bypassed the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, protected in part by a buffer zone chewed by goats. With California tinder dry and fires burning…
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NTSB: Entire crew was asleep when fatal boat fire started
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LOS ANGELES • All six crewmembers were asleep aboard a scuba diving boat off the Southern California coast when a fire broke out in the middle of the night, killing 34 people who were trapped in a bunkroom below the main deck, federal investigators announced Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report that said…
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Defense asks judge to find Navy SEAL not guilty
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lawyers for a decorated Navy SEAL charged with war crimes asked a judge on Tuesday to find him not guilty as prosecutors rested their case. The judge recessed the court-martial in San Diego to consider the request of attorneys for Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who has pleaded not guilty to…
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California to ban pesticide it says hurts babies’ brains
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation’s most productive agricultural state moved Wednesday to ban a controversial pesticide widely used to control a range of insects but blamed for harming brain development in babies. The move cheered by environmentalists would outlaw chlorpyrifos after scientists deemed it a toxic air contaminant and discovered it to be more…
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Lawyers want Stormy Daniels to pay Trump $340,000 in legal fees
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump want porn actress Stormy Daniels to pay them $340,000 in legal bills they claim they earned successfully defending Trump against her failed defamation claim. The attorneys are due in a Los Angeles federal courtroom Monday to make their case that they rang up big bills because…
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Missing-persons list tops 600 in fire-stricken California
CHICO, Calif. — The potential magnitude of the wildfire disaster in Northern California escalated as officials raised the death toll to 63 and released a missing-persons list with 631 names on it more than a week after the flames swept through. The fast-growing roster of people unaccounted for probably includes some who fled the blaze…
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2 killed in Southern California fire that’s doubled in size
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — A wildfire that tore through Malibu mansions and working-class suburban homes in Southern California’s hills and canyons has killed two people and had more than doubled in size by Saturday. Officials took advantage of temporarily calm conditions to assess damage from the blaze that has burned 109 square miles (282 square…
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Man charged with making death threats over Trump editorials
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BOSTON • A Los Angeles man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday for threatening to kill the newspaper’s journalists, whom he called the “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said. Robert Chain’s threatening phone calls to the Globe’s newsroom started immediately…
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Appeals court rules 2nd Amendment allows open carry of guns
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Second Amendment protects the right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Hawaiian officials had violated George Young’s rights when he was…
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Climbers smash El Capitan’s climb record, scaling 3,000 ft in less than 2 hours
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LOS ANGELES — Two of the world’s best rock climbers coped with frightening falls and the deaths of two fellow climbers on the same rock in a month-long quest to shatter a mythical record in Yosemite National Park. Tenacity paid off Wednesday as Alex Honnold…