Around 25 million people in California are under a flood watch this weekend as the latest in a parade of deadly storms drenches the state.
Several waterways have flooded, at least 19 people have died and thousands have been told to evacuate their (...)
Federal safety investigators on Tuesday promised an exhaustive probe into the fire that killed 34 people on a dive boat as many of the charred bodies remained trapped in the sunken wreckage off the California coast or missing in the ocean.
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Divers were scouring for bodies on the wreckage of a scuba diving boat off California on Tuesday, after a fast-moving fire trapped dozens of people below deck, sparking a panicked rescue call from a man gasping, "I can't breathe."
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Divers have found a total of 25 bodies on Monday after a pre-dawn fire sank a scuba diving vessel off a Southern California island, leaving nine people unaccounted for as the search continued, media reported.
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Formulating drugs as liquid salts may help limit the toxicity of some topical drug formulations, while also making them more effective, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to UPI.
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At least seven people were killed in a drive-by shooting near a college campus in the Californian city of Santa Barbara, including the suspected gunman, Reuters quoted local media as reporting on Saturday.
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A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday morning off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., UPI quoted the U.S. Geological Survey as saying.
The quake struck at 7:38 a.m. PDT in the Pacific Ocean, 3 miles west of Isla Vista. A 2.6-magnitude (...)
A California wildfire pushed by high winds threatened more than 100 buildings Tuesday after burning more than 1,200 acres near Santa Barbara, UPI quoted officials as saying.
The "White Fire" was only about 10 percent contained after starting Monday (...)
Jesse James Hollywood has been sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating the kidnap-murder of a 15-year-old boy in a case that inspired the 2007 movie “Alpha Dog.” Superior Court Judge Brian Hill on Friday sentenced Hollywood to life without the (...)
Firefighters were
making progress on Saturday toward containing a ferocious
California wildfire now in its fifth day that has destroyed 80
homes and forced some 29,000 people to evacuate an area above
the seaside city of Santa Barbara, according (...)
Wind-whipped flames that
incinerated dozens of homes and injured 10 firefighters raged through
the central California foothills at the edge of Santa Barbara for a third
day today, forcing thousands of residents to flee threatened
neighborhoods, (...)