LAS VEGAS – A 70-year-old man told police he fainted before his speeding vehicle plowed into a Nevada casino, killing two people near a bank of slot machines and injuring at least eight other people.
But investigators didn’t immediately dismiss the chance that a mechanical malfunction sent the 2007 Pontiac Vibe crashing into the Edgewater Hotel [...]
February 4, 2010 | Posted in
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SEAL BEACH, Calif. – Spare tires, rusted shopping carts and still steaming trash cover this ocean beach — ugly remnants from the series of dangerous and damaging storms that tore through states in the southwest.
“I’m completely shocked. From our house, all we could see was gorgeous clouds and then we come down here and there’s [...]
January 24, 2010 | Posted in
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LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. – Authorities and residents of Southern California are bracing for another day of rain as the second of three back-to-back storms expected to hit the state this week approaches the coast.
Forecasters posted a flash flood watch early Tuesday for areas scarred by last summer’s wildfires in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and [...]
January 19, 2010 | Posted in
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ATLANTA – A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.’s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon’s church, urging the audience not to “sanitize” King’s legacy or let the president off the hook on issues like poverty.
Across the country, Americans marked what would have been King’s 81st birthday with rallies [...]
January 18, 2010 | Posted in
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