LANCASTER — A man riding a motorcycle was killed Sunday in a crash involving a pickup truck, and a woman coming to the aid of the biker suffered major injuries when she was hit by a passing motorist, who stayed at the scene.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will unveil the first phase of its long-awaited blueprint for Mideast peace next month at a conference in the region designed to highlight economic benefits that could be reaped if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, the White House said Sunday.
Thomas Nozkowski, whose small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and wryly self-aware direction, died on May 9 in Rhinebeck, New York. He was 75.
Bobbie Raymond, whose visionary strategy for curbing white flight from her suburban Chicago village was embraced as a national model for racial integration in housing, died on May 7 in Chicago. She was 80.
A billionaire technology investor stunned the entire graduating class at Morehouse College when he announced at their commencement Sunday that he would pay off their student loans — estimated at up to $40 million.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the Alabama Capitol on Sunday to protest the state’s newly approved abortion ban, chanting “my body, my choice!” and “vote them out!”
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Sixteen thousand tons of Bethlehem Steel collapsed in a matter of seconds Sunday as a demolition crew imploded Martin Tower, the defunct steelmaker’s former world headquarters.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The mother and teenage sister of a 15-year-old Calabasas High School student killed in the crash of a small plane flown by his father in Ventura County are suing the pilot’s estate.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles says admission will soon be free thanks to a $10 million gift by the president of its board of trustees.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Sunday for the 12th consecutive day, decreasing three-tenths of a cent to $4.031.
GARDEN GROVE (AP) — Police shot and killed a 20-year-old man who they say stabbed an 18-year-old relative at a Southern California home.
NORTHRIDGE (CNS) — Two people were critically hurt early Sunday after their vehicle was hit by a hit-and-run driver, authorities said.
SUN VALLEY — A possibly homeless man was fatally injured Sunday in a fire at a vacant commercial building.
LOS ANGELES — Light rain blanketed much of the Los Angeles area Sunday, but the fast-moving storm was expected to taper off, with only a slight chance of showers after midnight.
LITTLEROCK — Antelope Valley Union High School District student trustee Noah Sveiven submitted a “cure and correct” demand letter to his Board colleagues at the May 9 Board meeting to remind them of a substantial violation of the Brown Act they committed at the April 11 meeting.
CALIFORNIA CITY — A request to extend the agreement for a consultant who has been aiding the finance department in preparing the city’s books for audit and the 2019-2020 budget led to public criticism of California City Finance Director Diego Ibanez from his predecessor during Tuesday’s City…
PALMDALE — The Palmdale Planning Commission approved new requirements for parking and laundry facilities in multi-family residential developments, hoping the less-stringent requirements will help attract new housing development to the city.
ROSAMOND — The Rosamond Community Services District is looking at a $8 million operating budget for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, an increase of a little more than $230,000 from the current year, or about 3%.
WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Michigan on Saturday became the first member of President Donald Trump’s party on Capitol Hill to accuse him of engaging in “impeachable conduct” stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s lengthy investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 …
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sammy Shore, an actor and stand-up comedian who co-founded the Comedy Store, died Saturday. He was 92.
Mojave has needed a new courthouse for many years to handle an increasing caseload and to improve safety for sheriff’s deputies moving prisoners between the luxury motor-coach that transports them from the main jail in Bakersfield to the various buildings that comprise the court.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A Nicaraguan-American dual national who died in a prison disturbance in Nicaragua served in the U.S. Navy and was a staunch opponent of the government of President Daniel Ortega, his cousin said Saturday.
VIENNA — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called Saturday for an early election after his vice chancellor resigned over a covertly shot video that showed him apparently promising government contracts to a prospective Russian investor.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — For more than two decades, Nancy Mace did not speak publicly about her rape. In April, when she finally broke her silence, she chose the most public of forums — before her colleagues in South Carolina’s legislature.
BILLINGS, Mont. — A U.S. judge has sentenced a Mexican citizen to almost five years in federal prison after prosecutors say he brought 34 pounds of methamphetamine from Arizona to Montana.
MODESTO (AP) — Police in central California say an anonymous tip has led them to identify and arrest a man wanted on suspicion of killing a homeless woman.
DALLAS (AP) — A spate of tornadoes raked across the Southern Plains, leaving damage and causing few injuries, and parts of the region were bracing for more severe thunderstorms and possible flooding.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Walt Disney World employee with backstage access stole about $14,000 worth of costumes and items from the Magic Kingdom and Epcot theme parks, authorities said Friday.
SYDNEY — Scott Morrison, Australia’s conservative prime minister, scored a surprise victory in federal elections Saturday, propelled by a populist wave — the “quiet Australians,” he termed it — resembling the force that has upended politics in the United States, Britain and beyond.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man who survived the 1999 Columbine school shooting and later became an advocate for fighting addiction has died.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats will hear from former CIA director John Brennan about the situation in Iran, inviting him to speak next week amid heightened concerns over the Trump administration’s sudden moves in the region.
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A shooting at an off-campus party near Ball State University in Indiana early Saturday left seven people injured, three of them critically, police said.
A letter written by Alexander Hamilton during the Revolutionary War has resurfaced more than seven decades after the document was stolen from the Massachusetts Archives, federal authorities said.
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter canceled plans to teach Sunday school just days after undergoing surgery for a broken hip.
LOS ANGELES — A new weather system is expected to bring rain to parts of Southern California today, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.
LOS ANGELES — More than 10,000 people participated in Saturday’s 12th annual HomeWalk in downtown Los Angeles, billed as the nation’s largest public event to end homelessness.
MOJAVE — “It was just an experience of a lifetime.”
PEARBLOSSOM — Retired Daisy Gibson Elementary School Principal Vishna Herrity will serve out the remainder of the school year as Superintendent Designee Principal at Antelope Elementary School.
CALIFORNIA CITY — The firefighters of the California City Fire Department will see a 20% pay increase this year and 6% increases in each of the next two years under a new memorandum of understanding unanimously approved by the City Council on Tuesday.
LANCASTER — After nearly four decades of princesses, pirates, superheroes, cowboys or any number of magical creatures, or historical figures, Daisy’s Costumes will close up shop at the end of next month.
PALMDALE (CNS) — A child was airlifted to a hospital with injuries suffered early Saturday in a multi-vehicle crash on the Antelope Valley Freeway.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A teen searching for arrowheads in southern Iowa found something much bigger: the prehistoric jawbone of a mastodon.
LONG BEACH (AP) — Police say a woman was killed and five others were shot and injured while they held a vigil outside a Southern California bar for someone who recently died.
Who died and left the College Board the boss of American education?
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Authorities say somebody stole a tripod from a California Department of Transportation crew and then dropped it from an overpass onto a freeway, impaling the lung of a passenger in a van.
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A woman was killed and three others, including a 4-year-old boy, were wounded by gunfire in an apartment complex.
LANCASTER — With an estimated 100 acres of hemp planted on the city’s east side, SoCal Farms LLC is the first industrial hemp farm to have approval from the Los Angeles County Agriculture Commissioner to cultivate the crop.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A now-dead Ohio State team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students from the 1970s through the 1990s, and numerous university officials got wind of what was going on over the years but did little or nothing to stop him, according to a report released by the school Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Herman Wouk was a prize-winning, million-selling author never quite in fashion.
VARADERO, Cuba — The battle for Cuba’s economic future is being waged on its beaches. And at its all-inclusive resorts, dive sites and cobblestoned colonial plazas.
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