Audi Most car shoppers are looking for a vehicle that’s stylish, drives well, is reasonably priced, has a good safety record and doesn’t cost too much to own and drive. Kelley Blue Book has put together that combination in its awards for the best buys among 2018 models. “These are […]
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“Violent” psych hospital escapee captured in California
STOCKTON, Calif. — A patient described as a “violent psychopath” who escaped Sunday from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital has been taken into custody in California after a manhunt, reports CBS San Francisco. Randall Toshio Saito was arrested in Stockton Wednesday and is being taken to San Joaquin County jail, the […]
Calif. shooter’s wife found dead, “concealed under the floorboards”
RED BLUFF, Calif. — Investigators in Tehama County spent much of the day Tuesday looking for the wife of a man who was shot dead by law enforcement after going on a rampage in a small northern California town, killing five and injuring nine others. Ultimately, her’s was the final death […]
Ancient fossil forest discovered in unlikely place
Antarctica wasn’t always a land of ice. Millions of years ago, when the continent was still part of a huge Southern Hemisphere landmass called Gondwana, trees flourished near the South Pole. Now, newfound, intricate fossils of some of these trees are revealing how the plants thrived — and what forests […]
Report: Health effects of pollution hit minorities hard
A new report warns of dire health effects on communities of color caused by oil and gas facilities located near residential areas, linking emissions of pollutants with high rates of cancer and asthma, especially in African-American neighborhoods. The report, titled “Fumes Across the Fence-Line” and released on Tuesday, was produced […]
Trump tweets condolences to wrong town after mass shooting
Late Tuesday evening, President Trump tweeted condolences for a mass shooting to the incorrect town. Tuesday, a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns opened fire on four victims at multiple locations in the small Northern California town of Rancho Tehama. The suspect wounded more victims at an elementary […]
NASA launches powerful weather satellite
After back-to-back delays earlier this week, a workhorse Delta 2 rocket finally streaked away from the California coast early Saturday carrying a state-of-the-art $1.6 billion weather satellite into an orbit around Earth’s poles, the first of four intended to ensure reliable forecasting over the next two decades. The Delta 2, […]
Who is Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe?
To his followers and faithful, Robert Mugabe is an African nationalist hero who defied the might of white rule, and won. To his many enemies and detractors, he is a brutal tyrant who ruled by fear and ruined his country. On Wednesday, Zimbabwe’s military vehemently denied a coup to topple […]
U.K. explorer goes missing on quest to find remote tribe
LONDON — The family of British explorer Benedict Allen says he has gone missing during an expedition in Papua New Guinea. The 57-year-old adventurer was attempting to make contact with a remote tribe, the Yaifo, whom he first visited 30 years ago. He wrote in September that the Yaifo were […]
Suspect called mother before deadly rampage
The mother of a gunman who shot 14 people, killing four, during a rampage in Northern California said he called her a day earlier and told her that he was finished feuding with the small rural community where he lived. “Mom it’s all over now,” Kevin Janson Neal‘s mother said […]