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California strawberry pickers fired for walking off job to flee wildfire
A group of agricultural workers in southern California lost their jobs last week when they took shelter to escape the ash-filled air blowing down on them ahead of one of the wildfires currently blazing in that state. According to NBC Los Angeles, 15 workers went inside to escape the smoke,…
At least 8 killed in California bus accident
At least eight people died and 27 others were injured in a multiple vehicle accident in southern California that involved a passenger bus, local media reported. The KABC television network said the accident occurred at about 6:30 pm local time (0230 GMT Monday) in a rural area north of of…
Mexican drug lord ‘daughter’ arrested in southern California
LOS ANGELES — A woman who identified herself as a daughter of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested after trying to enter the United States with false documents, officials said Tuesday. Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar, 31, was arrested Friday in San Ysidro in southern California, on…
Makers of anti-Islam film influenced by California-based Coptic preacher
The makers of an anti-Islamic movie that set off violent anti-US protests in the Arab world were influenced by a southern California-based Coptic preacher, who made a business out of insults to the Prophet Mohammed, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The newspaper said this preacher named Zakaria Botros Henein…
Rotten smell in southern California traced to dead fish in Salton Sea
It smelled like rotten eggs, but the source of what California officials called a “very large and unusual odour event” has been traced to rotten fish. The stench, which began on Sunday and spread throughout southern California, prompting hundreds of complaints and thousands of jokes, came from the inland lake…
California wildfires force hundreds of evacuations
LOS ANGELES — Wildfires flared across southern California on Wednesday, destroying at least four buildings, wounding three people and forcing hundreds to evacuate, firefighters said. Some 400 people from Ranchita, 81 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of San Diego, were forced to leave their homes Tuesday night and remained at help…
Starbucks to start selling wine and beer in U.S.
LOS ANGELES — Starbucks is to start selling wine and beer in some stores in southern California and Atlanta, Georgia, expanding a move which has worked well around its northwest US base, the coffee giant said Monday. The Seattle-based global coffee shop franchise said it will also sell “premium food…
Soldier shot, paralyzed at homecoming party in California
The mother of an Army soldier who was shot at his own homecoming party on Friday spoke to CNN about the tragic incident. Christopher Sullivan, a 22-year-old Purple Heart recipient, was critically wounded at his party in Southern California after being shot multiple times by 19-year-old Ruben Ray Jurado. Jurada was reportedly…
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