Posted 6:58 AM 5/7/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - The search is resuming for three hikers who vanished over the weekend while climbing a peak in the San Bernardino Mountains. Authorities on Tuesday plan to use helicopters and searchers on foot and horseback to look for Ryan Shankles, David Yoder (More)
Posted 7:08 AM 5/6/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rainy weather in Central and Southern California is making roads slick and proving a mixed blessing for crews fighting a huge wildfire. A storm dumped less than a tenth of an inch of rain to around a quarter-inch overnight in most areas. The (More)
Posted 8:34 AM 5/6/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) - Moist, cool and calm weather is greatly helping Southern California firefighters battling a huge wildfire in coastal Ventura County. Fire spokesman Tom Kruschke (KRUSH-kee) says containment of the blaze 50 miles west of Los Angeles has increased to 30 percent (More)
Posted 9:22 AM 5/2/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANNING, Calif. (AP) - A fire that destroyed a home in rural Southern California is 40 percent contained but winds are kicking up and could make hard work for hundreds of firefighters battling it. Riverside County fire spokeswoman Jody Hagemann says winds at the fire site north of (More)
Posted 4:53 PM 5/1/2013 by Associated Press
BANNING, Calif. (AP) - Southern California fire officials say a wildfire that broke out just after noon is raging through 1,500 acres of Riverside County near Banning, fueled by 29 mph winds. The fire is raging westward through largely undeveloped foothills of the San Bernardino (More)
Posted 11:20 AM 4/30/2013 by Associated Press
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) - Investigators have found a second body at the Southern California site where a small plane crashed after a midair collision with another small plane that managed to make a belly landing on a golf course. Los Angeles County Fire Department Inspector Tony (More)