By PHILIP ISSA and ZEINA KARAM BAGHDAD — After days of conflicting statements about a timeline for U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out American troops from Syria, a U.S. military official said Friday that the withdrawal process has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led…
By TODD RICHMOND | Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin teenager missing for nearly three months after her parents were killed in the family home was found alive barely an hour’s drive away, by a woman who stumbled across the 13-year-old girl and pounded on a nearby home’s door shouting: “This is Jayme Closs!…
The scene from the perimeter fence of Tres Hermanos Ranch is a glimpse back in time: longhorn cattle and deer roaming green fields framed by forested hills and watered by streams. Stretching from the 60 Freeway in Los Angeles County south to the western tip of San Bernardino County, the 108-year-old…
Southern California’s native landscapes are famously tough. But repeated wildfire and drought amplified by climate change pose a growing threat to wildlands that provide us with drinking water, untamed refuge from the Southland’s sprawl and stop mountainsides from sliding into our living rooms.
Imperial Valley farms still flooded a week after Tropical Storm Doreen.
California narrowly averted a major crisis for travelers taking to the sky this year after the Department of Homeland Security granted it a last-minute extension to meet REAL ID requirements, despite the government shutdown. If California hadn’t received the extension and homeland security hadn’t officially certified it met the REAL ID requirements, it would have…
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Thursday cleared the path for a Los Angeles teachers’ strike to start Monday. Whether it does, however, will depend on negotiations that resume Friday and could stretch into the weekend. Additional funding from the state budget could help bridge the gap…
By CATHERINE LUCEY, LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER , McALLEN, Texas — Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was mounting to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse…
Paige Holland had done so much with her brother, Michael, as she tagged along to Cub Scout camps. They shot arrows. They kayaked. They fired BB guns. But Michael aged out of the Cub Scouts, he soon was a Boy Scout, and Paige could no longer join him. “She felt like she was left in…
She works out or hikes five days a week, she can deadlift about 150 pounds and she spent her birthday on Thursday, Jan. 10, at the gym doing a routine inspired by her age: 82. Marguerite Skaggs – her kids call her Marge, but she prefers Maggie – was in fairly good shape until she retired from…
