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(Reuters) – Dozens of children were among more than 300 people evacuated from campgrounds early Saturday morning as firefighters battled brush fires burning in Southern California’s drought-parched foothills, fire officials said. It has charred more that 125 acres northwest of San Bernardino, according to an online U.S. Forest Service post. At least five campgrounds near the fire were evacuated, sending 300 campers, including 130 children with special needs, to a
A male U.S. Navy petty officer has died of wounds sustained in this week’s shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the U.S. Navy said on Saturday, raising the number of people killed in the attack to five. The suspected shooter, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-born naturalized U.S. citizen, also died on Thursday in a firefight with police after the rampage at a military recruiting office and a training center six miles away.
A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group plan overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina State House, where state officials removed the Confederate battle flag last week. Governor Nikki Haley, who called for the flag’s removal from the State House grounds after the killing of nine African-Americans in a Charleston church last month, urged South Carolinians to steer clear of the Klan rally. “Our family hopes the
NICE, France (AP) — Tributes poured in from the world of Formula One for French driver Jules Bianchi, who died after a long fight against horrendous injuries sustained in a head-on crash during the Japanese Grand Prix last October.
In 2014, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez traveled to Jordan, and ended up spending seven months overseas.
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) is now detained in the highest-security prison in the country.
Twenty-four hours after a deadly shooting spree that began at one military recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., and ended at another, details are starting to emerge about the four Marines who were killed in Thursday’s attack.
On a hot summer day, very little is quite as appealing as your local swimming pool. Swimming is the most popular recreational activity for children and teens between the ages of 7 and 17. In the United States, around 91 million people over 16 swim in oceans, lakes and rivers each year, according to the CDC.Getting in the water contains many…
By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) – After decades of Alzheimer’s research that led to dead ends, including 123 drugs that failed, top researchers in the field say they are far more confident now of producing an effective treatment. New experimental drugs from Eli Lilly and Co and Biogen have shown promise in slowing down the progression of the mind-wasting disease, attracting the attention of investors and
Seattle is violating constitutional guarantees of privacy and due process in allowing garbage collectors to inspect refuse bins to gauge a home’s compliance with the city’s strict trash-sorting rules, residents said in a lawsuit this week. The Washington state metropolis last year became the second major U.S. city after San Francisco to pass a law prohibiting most food or food scraps from being disposed of in residential and commercial garbage.
