Leigh Bailey, 54, was awakened not by her phone, warning her about an incoming fire that would soon destroy her town, but by a neighbor pounding on her door. Bailey had no idea how bad the fire was about to become. So she went back inside around 9:15 a.m., had a cup of tea and…

A man who was riding a bicycle was wounded in a shooting early Tuesday, Nov. 20, just after midnight, and police were searching for the gunman. The victim was found near Cedar Street and Edinger Avenue with a wound to his torso. He was taken to a hospital with injuries that did not appear to…

By AMANDA SEITZ and DON BABWIN CHICAGO — An argument outside a Chicago hospital turned deadly when a man pulled out a gun and killed an emergency room doctor whom he knew, then ran into the hospital and fatally shot a pharmacy resident and a police officer, authorities said. The attacker also died Monday but…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT HOUSTON  — A federal judge barred the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Nov. 9 that said anyone who crossed the southern border between official ports of entry would be ineligible for asylum. As the first of several…

SANTA ANA — A 52-year-old Corona man was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison Monday for his part in a scam to sell bogus identification out of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Jose Cruz, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to produce illegal ID documents and identity theft, was sentenced to 34…

LAKE ELSINORE — A motorist was killed and another was seriously injured Monday in a head-on collision on Ortega (74) Highway west of Lake Elsinore. The crash was reported about 4:05 a.m. near the Orange County line, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officer Mike Lassig said a 25-year-old Lake Elsinore man was at the…