MONTECITO, Calif. — A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims isn’t. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful mud flow swept away […]
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Superintendent defends raise challenged by handcuffed teacher
A Louisiana school board is under fire after a teacher was forcibly removed from a board meeting after questioning the superintendent’s pay. Deyshia Hargrave was handcuffed and arrested by a city marshal Monday night in Abbeville. The middle school English teacher was booked on one count of resisting an officer […]
Race to find survivors of fast-moving SoCal mudslides
MONTECITO, Calif. — A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims isn’t. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful mud flow swept away […]
6 years after N.J. radio host is slain, her husband is charged
A New Jersey doctor running an illegal prescription opioid drug ring with a motorcycle gang had a member hire someone to kill his wife after she threatened to expose the scheme while trying to force him to agree to a divorce, authorities said Tuesday. James Kauffman and a member of […]
Robert De Niro in expletive-laced anti-Trump tirade at films gala
NEW YORK — Steven Spielberg’s newspaper drama “The Post” took a bow at a politically charged National Board of Review Awards where Robert De Niro lambasted President Trump with an expletive-laden tirade and Meryl Streep took a moment in an awards season rife with gender politics to praise the men […]
Robert De Niro launches expletive-laced anti-Trump tirade at films gala
NEW YORK — Steven Spielberg’s newspaper drama “The Post” took a bow at a politically charged National Board of Review Awards where Robert De Niro lambasted President Trump with an expletive-laden tirade and Meryl Streep took a moment in an awards season rife with gender politics to praise the men […]
Massive earthquake rattles the Caribbean
Last Updated Jan 10, 2018 4:11 AM EST One of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in modern times struck off the coast of Honduras on Tuesday night, shaking the mainland and setting off tsunami warnings that were canceled about an hour later. There were no early reports of […]
Earthquake strikes off Central America, USGS says
Last Updated Jan 9, 2018 11:19 PM EST The United States Geological Service (USGS) said that a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea between the coast of Honduras and the Cayman Islands. The Tuesday evening quake has sparked a tsunami advisory in the area, according to the Pacific Tsunami […]
Judges order redo of N. Carolina’s partisan congressional districts
Last Updated Jan 10, 2018 12:21 AM EST RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal judges ruled Tuesday that North Carolina’s congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-solid advantage for most seats and must quickly be redone. The ruling marks the […]
Judges order N. Carolina to redraw its congressional districts
Last Updated Jan 10, 2018 12:21 AM EST RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal judges ruled Tuesday that North Carolina’s congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-solid advantage for most seats and must quickly be redone. The ruling marks the […]