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disasters that authorities say may have been sparked by fireworks or a barbecue temporarily trapped holiday revelers as it chewed through a mountainous California region that’s a top tourism destination, officials said. The Electra Fire in Sierra Nevada Gold Country broke out Monday afternoon and tripled in size overnight to …

It’s July 4th, a day when Americans from all different backgrounds take a day to celebrate our good fortune to all live in the greatest country in the history of the world. Unless, that is, you work at ESPN,a> when July 4th represents an opportunity for you to trot out …

A letter written by Alexander Hamilton in 1780 and believed stolen decades ago from the Massachusetts state archives is going back on display — though not exactly in the room where it happened. The founding father’s letter will be the featured piece at the Commonwealth Museum’s annual July Fourth exhibit, …

A vegan mother is facing life in prison for murdering her 18-month-old child who starved to death on a strict raw fruit and vegetable diet.  us-regions, 39, on Wednesday of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect in the death of her …

Improving weather helped firefighters stop the spread of a disasters that forced evacuation of several hundred people from their homes and injured 13 firefighters and a civilian, authorities said Thursday. The Rices Fire remained at 904 acres while containment increased to 20%, us-regions of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Firefighters …

los-angeles” target=”_blank”>Los Angeles< “In the future, there’s going to be more cities like this, as urban areas further encroach on natural habitats,” said biologist Audra Huffmeyer, who studies mountain lions at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If we want to keep these large carnivores around on the planet, we …

us-regions has approved a $9 million settlement between the state and the brother of a man who was abused numerous times at the state’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital, lawyers in the case announced Thursday. The abuse scandal involving patient William Shehadi at Whiting Forensic Hospital in 2017 led to the arrests …

New Mexico will pay the federal government more than $19 million to settle a claim by the Department of Agriculture that the state mishandled nutrition-and-fitness and overpaid some needy families in 2014 and 2016, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The Albuquerque Journal said in a copyright story that the state has …

Crews battled a fire at an overnight summer camp in us-regions on Wednesday morning, but no injuries were reported, officials said. Firefighters were initially dispatched around 7:30 a.m. for a report of a fire in a building at Camp Airy for Boys in Thurmont, Frederick County Division of Fire & …

NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. So it is sending up a test satellite from world-regions. The initial stages of the launch went according to plan late …