The most ambitious rail project of California’s future is increasingly dependent on the cooperation of the very railroad that shaped the state’s past — and there are signs their relationship is growing strained. Contractors building a 31-mile section of the high-speed rail project in the Central…
The massive Mendocino Complex fire jumped across at least four creeks, one major road and a fire line cut by a bulldozer in a single six-mile run this weekend toward Leesville, a tiny unincorporated way station in Colusa County. Typically, any one of those breaks could have halted the spread of…
Charlotte Rae, the actress best known for her role as Mrs. Garrett, den mother to a group of rambunctious teenage girls on the long-running 1980s sitcom “The Facts of Life,” has died at 92. Spokesman Harlan Boll said Rae died Sunday at her Los Angeles home. A cause of death was not immediately…
The Mendocino Complex fire continued to grow at an alarming rate, burning more than 266,000 acres by Sunday morning and becoming the fourth-largest in California history. The massive blaze, the most serious of 17 major brush fires burning in California this weekend, was raging across wilderness…
CHICAGO — At least 11 people were shot and killed and about 70 others were wounded over the weekend in Chicago, in a spasm of gun violence that police attributed mostly to gangs and that the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, used to criticize the city’s Democratic leadership. The violence peaked early Sunday, including one shooting…
The Saudi Arabian Embassy is shown in Ottawa, Canada, on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Saudi Arabia has ordered Canadian Ambassador Dennis Horak to leave the ultraconservative kingdom within 24 hours after his nation criticized the recent arrests of women’s rights activists. The Saudi Foreign Ministry also said it would freeze “all new business” between the…
Four Bay Area residents and a Los Angeles man were identified Monday, Aug. 6 as the five who were killed when a plane crashed into a Santa Ana shopping center parking lot the day before. The pilot was Scott Shepherd, 53, of Diablo, Ca., the Orange County coroner’s office said, and the passengers were: Lara…
A spokesman for Charlotte Rae, who played a wise and caring housemother to a brood of teenage girls on the long-running sitcom “The Facts of Life,” says the actress has died. She was 92. (2014 photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) By LYNN ELBER | AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES — Charlotte Rae, who played a…
By ROS IDIN and ALI KOTARUMALOS | Associated Press MATARAM, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake flattened houses and toppled bridges on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, killing at least 98 people and shaking neighboring Bali, as authorities said Monday that rescuers still hadn’t reached some devastated areas and the death toll would climb. It was…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center, talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, unseen, during their meeting at Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. (Beawiharta/Pool Photo via AP) By MATTHEW LEE | AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran will be rigorously enforced…
