By JAY REEVES and BRENDAN FARRINGTON PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Search-and-rescue teams fanned out across the Florida Panhandle to reach trapped people in Michael’s wake Thursday as daylight yielded scenes of rows upon rows of houses smashed to pieces by the third-most powerful hurricane on record to hit the continental U.S. At least two deaths were…
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — Two astronauts from the U.S. and Russia were safe after an emergency landing Thursday in the steppes of Kazakhstan following the failure of a Russian booster rocket carrying them to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Alexei Ovchinin lifted off as scheduled at 2:40 p.m. (1:40 a.m. PDT)…
Tex Winter, the innovator of the “triangle” offense used by teams that won 10 of the last 19 National Basketball Assn. championships, died Wednesday. He was 96. Kansas State University, where he coached from 1953-68, announced that he died in Manhattan, Kan. Winter spent nine seasons with the Lakers…
After years of stop-and-go talks, California and two other states that take water from the lower Colorado River are nearing an agreement on how to share delivery cuts if a formal shortage is declared on the drought-plagued waterway. Under the proposed pact, California — the river’s largest user…
SANTA ANA — A 62-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter for fatally stabbing a homeless man in Santa Ana in 1984. John William Zelinski, 61, was extradited from Arizona and charged with the 1984 cold case murder of a transient man in Santa Ana. 2017 file photo. John William Zelinski accepted a plea…
A California man on Wednesday was sentenced to six months in prison for unwittingly helping the Russian effort to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election. U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich sentenced Richard Pinedo to six months’ imprisonment followed by six months of home detention for…
Results from DNA testing of a wetsuit worn by a teenage boy bitten by a shark last month while lobster diving in Encinitas confirmed he was attacked by a great white shark, officials said Wednesday. Lifeguards and scientists had suspected from the beginning that they were dealing with a white shark,…
A 20-year-old emaciated and abused white horse was found in an unincorporated area of north Orange County, and after officials assessed the mare’s health and euthanized the animal, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said it is looking for the owner. Officials said deputies, along with Orange County Animal Care, responded to a report of a…
Newly elected to the California State Assembly in 2012, Sharon Quirk-Silva headed from her post as Fullerton mayor to Sacramento intent on making the issue of homelessness one of her priorities. Her city had been roiled over the July 2011 death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man who died following a violent encounter…
LOS ANGELES — A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted four California men – three of them from the South Bay – on charges connected to violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters last year in Charlottesville, Va. The four defendants — Benjamin Drake Daley, 25, of Redondo Beach, Thomas Walter Gillen, 24, of Redondo Beach,…
