When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent immigration detainees to the Federal Correctional Complex in Victorville in early June, John Kostelnik was told they wouldn’t be there long. “We get 1,000 detainees, and I said, ‘Do we get more staff?’ ” said Kostelnik, president of Local 3969 of the American Federation of Government Employees. “They…
As authorities sifted the rubble from the fire that burned more than 1,000 residences in Shasta County, they were startled by what they encountered. A soaring transmission tower was tipped over. Tiles were torn off the roofs of homes. Massive trees were uprooted. Vehicles were moved. In one spot,…
Behind River Ridge Terrace in Redding, where the monstrous Carr fire had destroyed homes, a team of 20 men used shovels to stab the charred earth. Under the blazing sun, the clinking of metal stopped when one of the men scooping dirt out from under a tree spotted smoke rising from the ground. “Humo!”…
About halfway through the three-hour siege at Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake, the wounded gunman, Gene Atkins, looked at one of his hostages, MaryLinda Moss, and told her it was all over for him. “I just shot at a cop,” he said. Moss, a 55-year-old artist who exudes calm, feared a suicidal gunman…
The daredevil Knievel was spending his nights in jail and days at work after a felony conviction. He commuted to work in a Stutz convertible.
U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping attend a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, before Trump’s talk of tariffs prompted China to retaliate. (Thomas Peter/Pool Photo via AP) By JOE McDONALD | AP Business Writer BEIJING — China on Friday announced a…
By AMIR SHAH | Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — Two suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 29 people and wounding another 81, officials said. Abdullah Asrat, spokesman for the governor of Paktia province, said the heavily armed attackers, disguised in the all-encompassing burkas worn by conservative…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER | AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — U.S. employers slowed their hiring in July, adding 157,000 jobs, a solid gain but below the healthy pace in the first half of this year. The Labor Department said Friday the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.9 percent from 4 percent. That’s near an 18-year low…
Foreigners, primarily Chinese house hunters, continue to find California housing an attractive purchase as house hunting by non-citizens fell nationwide. Unlike other housing metrics, there’s no simple way to follow foreign buyers as citizenship is not recorded on real estate sales documents. So, my conclusions come from a recent study by the National Association of…
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer plans on Friday to ask a judge in Manhattan to dismiss the sexual assault charges against him, arguing that prosecutors failed to show grand jurors emails detailing a long-term romantic relationship between the producer and one of his accusers. Weinstein was indicted in…
