At least eleven people were injured by a shooting in American Thousand Oaks (California). The perpetrator started shooting in a bar, reports American media. It is unclear whether deaths have also occurred.
The world has a scarcity of resources over its head. At least, that is the conclusion of some scientists from the universities of Cambridge and California. Persistent climate change will complicate the cultivation of barley for making beer.
In a press conference at the end of a climate summit, the governor of California, Jerry Brown, has announced that he wants to include a weather satellite himself to find out what sources of air pollution are. The state is working with Planet Labs to launch the satellite.
The man who shot five people in Bakersfield and later deprived himself of his life was recently divorced. That's what the California authorities told about the perpetrator. His ex was one of the victims. He presumably forced the woman to go to a transport company, where he killed her and then the others.
A shooter in southern California has shot five people before he has deprived himself of his own life. That's what the Kern County police reports.
A year after the announcement of Apple's iPhone X, a new series of iPhones is announced during a live event at the Steve Jobs theater in Cupertino, California.
Firefighters fail to take control of a large forest fire in northern California. The fires in the Shasta-Trinity Forest have become 'aggressive violent' with flames over 90 meters high according to local media on Thursday evening. The fires block 80 kilometers of the major Interstate 5 motorway running through California from north to south.
Asia Argento, the Italian actress and director, who, as one of the first Harvey Weinstein, accused of sexually unacceptable behavior, has been accused of sexual assault. She has given the man who accuses her a large sum of money. That writes the New York Times (NYT) that says about paperwork in the case.
Chem Giant Monsanto has to pay millions to a man who told the judge that he has been given cancer by the Roundup glyphosate agent. A jury in the US state of California put the man in the right and determined the total compensation of 289 million dollars (253 million euros). Monsanto appeals.
Hundreds of firefighters are fighting in California against a fire that threatens thousands of homes south-east of Los Angeles. As a precaution, approximately 21,000 people were evacuated in and around Lake Elsinore.
The natural fires in California have grown again. On Tuesday, seventeen new fireplaces were added. Mendocino fires are now the largest in the history of the American state. 117,000 hectares of forest and nature reserve have gone up in flames through the Mendocino Complex, as the fires have been baptized.
The natural fires in northern California are now the largest fires in the history of the American state. The fire in the Mendocino region, about 150 kilometers north of San Francisco, has spread over an area of 114,800 hectares.
In Santa Ana, in the US state of California, a small plane crashed into the parking lot of a shopping center on Sunday. According to local media, there are at least four deaths, all occupants of the aircraft.
With 49.4 degrees Celsius it was one of the hottest days in California's history. On the same day, 24 July 2018, there was also a rain shower. In the town of Imperial it was 48.3 degrees Celsius when light rain fell in the afternoon.
Powered by strong winds, the natural fires in the north of the US state of California are expanding further.
Despite the efforts of 3400 firefighters and 17 fire extinguishers, the natural fires in the north of the US state of California are expanding. According to news channel CNN, there were five deaths on Saturday. Six large fireplaces were counted, so that at least 38,000 people had to leave their homes.
A large wildfire rages in the north of the American state of California. The flames even jumped over the Sacramento River and were so fast around them that around 38,000 people under evacuation orders were forced to leave their homes.
Rapidly expanding wildfires in Northern California have killed two firefighters. By a strong wind the fire jerked to the city of Redding. Mass evacuations started there, dozens of houses were destroyed, while 5000 other homes and business premises are threatened, officials said.
Thousands of residents of the American state of California have been fleeing a large wildfire. The so-called Cranston Fire, which is supposedly lit, quickly seized itself and raged in an area of some 1900 hectares in the San Jacinto Mountains.
A 2-year-old girl was shot by accident on Friday by her 4-year-old nephew. The accident took place in a house in the US state of California.
An American woman who has been missing for a week has been found at the foot of a cliff in California.
A 25-year-old drunk American driver returned to his burning car after a traffic accident to light his cigarette.
The vegetarian burger that the national New Zealand airline Air New Zealand serves on the flights from Auckland to Los Angeles is not popular everywhere. There has been a stir over the fake meat manufactured in California from plants.
Richard Summerfruit was clean. Ready for a while with heroin. Until, after a concert visit with his girlfriend in San Diego, he was left alone on the toilet. He was dead not much later. The blue pill that the twenties swallowed is the Percocet known in America or the opioid Oxycodone. But the fatal tablet bought on the street turned out to contain something completely different: fentanyl.
Seventeen American states are taking the Trump government to court because they want to put an end to separating immigrants from their children. The states call this policy 'cruel and unlawful.' They demand that the children be reunited with their parents.
A federal court in California rejected a case filed by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against major oil and gas companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil and BP on climate change. According to the judge, the problem is too broad to be decided in court.
A missing American air force officer was found after 35 years under a false name in California, reports American media. William Howard Hughes had access to state secrets and disappeared in 1983 when he had to leave for the Netherlands for work with NATO.
The US authorities put about 1,600 immigrants into federal prisons, where they can await their case. Officials say to Reuters news agency that this is the first time that arrested people who have entered the country illegally are accommodated in federal prisons on such a large scale.
A 37-year-old man who had tortured the eight-year-old son of his girlfriend with death, has received the death penalty in California. The judge in Los Angeles followed the advice of the jury, who had asked for the heaviest possible punishment because of the seriousness of the abuse. The mother of Gabriel Fernandez, who died in 2013, was sentenced to life imprisonment as a co-guilty party.
California voters have deposited a sitting judge. Judge Aaron Persky received a lot of criticism when he condemned a man in 2016 to a six-month prison sentence for the sexual abuse of an unconscious victim. Critics found that punishment far too low.
