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by Josh Edelson / Laurent Banguet Agence France Presse PARADISE, United States (AFP) — Search teams scoured the carnage of California’s most destructive ever wildfire for victims on Sunday, as the state-wide death toll rose to 26 with high winds hampering the effort to rescue property and save lives. Firefighters took advantage of a brief calm overnight to make headway against the multiple blazes, but conditions were expected to be hellish on Sunday with winds […]
The 28-year-old US Marine Corps combat veteran who opened fire in a crowded country music bar in California, killing 12 people including a police officer, had long served in the Marine Corps from August 2008 to March 2013, according to the Pentagon. The assailant, identified as Ian David Long, a troubled former machine gunner who served a tour in Afghanistan, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He attained the rank of corporal and saw […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an 18-year old Filipino-American student was among those killed in a mass shooting at a country music bar filled with college students in Los, Angeles, California. The DFA has expressed condolences to the family of 18-year-old Alaina Punzalan Housley, a freshman English student at Pepperdine University. Alaina is the niece of American actress and TV host Tamera Mowry-Housley and her husband journalist Adam […]
EBC reports on latest incident in Millbrae, California where a man died after a struggle with police officers.
BAKERSFIELD, United States (AFP) — A man who killed five people, including his wife, in California before taking his own life had been in the midst of a contentious divorce, authorities said Thursday. “It appears that the suspect targeted each of his victims,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a news conference in Bakersfield, where Wednesday’s deadly rampage took place. He said the shooter, identified as Javier Casarez, 54, was in divorce proceedings and his […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — California Governor Jerry Brown signed landmark legislation Monday committing his state to a 100 percent clean electricity grid by 2045. At least 20 countries and twice as many large cities have made similar pledges, but California — the fifth largest economy in the world — is by far the biggest jurisdiction to do so to date. “This bill and the executive order put […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Senior members of the Trump administration were due in California Monday as blazes that have killed at least eight people continued to cut a catastrophic swathe through the country’s most populous state. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes over the last month, with 14 blazes still threatening land and property from south of Los Angeles to the state’s border with […]
by Josh Edelson Agence France-Presse MENDOCINO, United States (AFP) — Thousands of firefighters, backed by US troops and crews from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, made progress Wednesday in their battle with California’s biggest wildfire on record — but the weather forecast for the rest of the week is not promising, officials said. Nearly 20 major fires have ravaged the sprawling western state over the past two weeks, fanned by strong winds and […]
by Josh Edelson Agence France Presse MENDOCINO, United States (AFP) — Thousands of firefighters battled relentless flames ripping across California on Wednesday, as the death toll from a series of infernos that erupted last month hit 11. The raging Mendocino Complex fire comprising twin blazes in the state’s north has now ravaged almost 300,000 acres (120,000 hectares) — approximately the size of sprawling Los Angeles — in less than two weeks, becoming California’s largest wildfire […]
by Javier Tovar Agence France-Presse CLEARLAKE OAKS, United States (AFP) — Two blazes mercilessly charring northern California have grown so rapidly that they became the US state’s largest in recorded history Monday, authorities said. Collectively dubbed the Mendocino Complex, the wildfires have burned through 283,800 acres (114,850 hectares) — an area nearly the size of the sprawling city of Los Angeles — and are just 30 percent contained, according to state fire authority CalFire. Two […]
(Eagle News) — Fremont, California Mayor, Lily Mei greeted the Iglesia Ni Cristo on its 104th Anniversary and 50th year in the West.
(Eagle News) — Oakland, California Mayor Libby Schaaf greeted the Iglesia Ni Cristo on its 104th Anniversary and 50 years in the West. (Video courtesy of Eagle News Service Don Orozco)
