By JAMIE STENGLE, The Associated Press GREENVILLE, Texas — A gunman opened fire at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party, leaving two people dead and 14 injured before he escaped in the ensuing chaos, a sheriff said Sunday. Authorities were working under the theory that the shooter may have been targeting just one person at…
Hundreds of members oppose the eviction of monks from Khemara Buddhikaramain temple in Long Beach. One says it’s a “crime against humanity.”
Their town was evacuated. But they stayed. And drank.
Homicide detectives began to investigate the death of a man after a neighbor found his body inside a Dana Point apartment on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The neighbor saw the man’s body through the man’s front door, which was left open, and then phoned authorities, said Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spokeswoman Carrie Braun. Deputies arrived…
The danger of rapidly spreading brush fires will increase in Southern California on Sunday evening and well into Monday as wind speeds pick up and humidity drops. Even though high temperatures are expected to fall to the mid-70s on Sunday — 10-20 degrees lower than Saturday — strong Santa Ana winds combined with very dry…
A 5-acre wildland fire broke out south of the 91 Freeway in an unincorporated part of Riverside County near Corona on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 26, according to fire officials. Fire 91 @ Coal Canyon: fires forward progress has been stopped. Air and ground crews are working on mop up. Fire is at 5 acres in…
One man was dead after a shooting at a home in Irvine early Saturday morning, and a second person reported being assaulted, police said. Officers responded at 5:45 a.m. to a report of an injured man in the residential neighborhood, Irvine police said. When they arrived, the man said he was the victim of an…
A man was killed after he was ejected from his pickup truck when it went off an embankment on the northbound 55 Freeway in Costa Mesa on Saturday morning, authorities said. The white Ford pickup truck went over the side on the right shoulder embankment just north of the Baker Street offramp at 11 a.m.,…
A bat found at Mission San Juan Capistrano this week tested positive for rabies, Orange County health officials said Saturday, making it the fifth rabid bat found in the county since September. The bat was found on the grounds of the mission on Ortega Highway at around 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, according to…
Perhaps no word is more misunderstood and misused in discussions of wildfires – even by firefighters themselves – than the word “containment.” Simply put, the containment percentage is the amount of the fire area that is surrounded by a line that officials believe the flames will not jump. “To say a fire is 100 percent…
