Residents are returning home Thursday after being forced to flee a wildfire raging outside Yosemite National Park, but some are wondering what they’ll find when they get there.
David Oppenheim, a longtime backcountry guide in Yosemite, has been staying at a motel since he and his wife evacuated their Mariposa home Saturday, taking along their two [...]
The 7-year-old girl who had been missing since Saturday morning was found Monday afternoon - and family said the uncle she disappeared with is expected home Monday night.
Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said detectives met with 7-year-old Kiana Reece Raiford and her mother on Monday.
“He has the utmost respect for his dad,” Raiford said. “I’m [...]
Steve Frazier, a spokesman for the FBI’s Little Rock field office, said Wednesday that the alleged theft affected Twin City Bank, a chain with 17 locations throughout central Arkansas. However, Frazier declined to offer any specifics about the supposed theft, saying any information would be passed along to U.S. Attorney Jane Duke.
“The FBI will be [...]
When she explains why she decided to run for Congress, Darcy Burner says the birth of her son, Henry, five years ago changed her life.
Her husband, Mike, grabbed a fire extinguisher and attacked the spreading flames. But within minutes, the house was engulfed, and Mike Burner joined his wife and son outside as they watched [...]
Firefighters from more than a dozen agencies on Monday were battling to stop a 700-acre wildfire as it came within a mile of about 2,000 homes on a hot and windy day, officials said.
Two volunteer firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, said Mary Kay Hicks, a Texas Forest Service spokeswoman. No other [...]
A second day of hot weather and dry wind stoked new wildfires across Northern California on Wednesday, as firefighters battled blazes that have damaged at least 50 homes and threaten hundreds more.
About 1,500 residents in the heavily forested hills north of Santa Cruz were told Wednesday afternoon to leave their homes as a quick-moving wildfire [...]
For years, Ed McMahon promised wealth, comfort and happiness as a pitchman for the American Family Publishers’ sweepstakes. Now, he could use some of that cash himself.
As of Wednesday afternoon, McMahon’s Mediterranean-styled house was still in the process of foreclosure; the bank hasn’t taken it over yet and no trustee sale date has been set. [...]
Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida on Sunday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.
A fire in Volusia County has burned between 500 and 600 acres and caused road closures and home evacuations, state Division of Forestry spokesman Timber Weller said.
Weller said windy, dry conditions were challenging the [...]
Cannabis users could in future be automatically arrested and charged on their second offence, Jacqui Smith announced as she defied her own experts to tighten laws on possession of the drug.
The Home Secretary overrode the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to confirm that cannabis would be restored from a class C to [...]
Abousfian Abdelrazik, once labelled an al-Qaeda operative by Canada but now given “temporary safe haven†in the Khartoum embassy, filed a court action Wednesday in Ottawa seeking to force the government to fly him home from Sudan.
Mr. Abdelrazik wants the federal court to order the minister to bring him home, even if it means sending [...]