By MICHAEL BIESECKER and ALAN SUDERMAN | Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. — Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby Cape Fear River overtopped an earthen dike at the facility and inundated a large lake. Duke spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said Thursday that the…
The Southern Pacific Lark passenger train crashes into a truck stuck on a railroad crossing in Glendale.
While on patrolling this week, Brea officers found two homemade bombs inside a car that they had pulled over for having an expired registration tag, police said. The 9 p.m. traffic stop on on Tuesday, Sept. 18, of the black Toyota Corolla was near Imperial Highway and Orange Avenue,. During the stop officers ended up…
By FOSTER KLUG and ERIC TALMADGE The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — A beaming South Korean President Moon Jae-in returned home from a whirlwind three-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday saying that Kim wants the U.S. secretary of state to visit Pyongyang soon for nuclear talks, and also hopes…
The California bullet train would cut through Sun Valley, San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Agua Dulce, the state rail authority proposed Wednesday as it laid out its plans for the complicated route from Burbank to Palmdale — one of its most controversial and costly segments. Compared with other…
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday bluntly questioned the allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a fellow high school student over 30 years ago, and Republicans warned the accuser the window was closing to tell her story before a confirmation vote. Trump’s…
A suspect was shot dead and two deputies were wounded during a shooting Wednesday night at a park in East Los Angeles. Both deputies were hospitalized and were stable, a Sheriff’s Department’s spokeswoman said in a tweet at about 8 p.m. The shooting occurred a little after 6:35 p.m. at Ruben F. Salazar Park, 3864…
Wearing his black Army uniform and maroon beret, Fabian Rebolledo stood tall Wednesday on the lawn of his family’s Azusa home, happy to be back on American soil for the first time in six years. Rebolledo has been away fighting a battle. Only this time, instead of defending the United States, the 43-year-old veteran has…
A San Diego woman known to her dark web customers as the “Drug Llama” has been arrested on charges of shipping more than 50,000 fentanyl pills throughout the country, authorities said Tuesday. Though the charges against Melissa Scanlan stem from a federal grand jury indictment in Illinois, the…
Water polo coach Randy Burgess has filed a libel suit against the Coronado Unified School District over its response to sexual abuse allegations made against Burgess last year. Burgess believes the school district’s public statements about the claims exposed the coach and gym teacher to “hatred,…
