The devastating mudslides caused by rainfall in southern California have claimed seventeen lives. According to the sheriff of Santa Barbara County, at least seventeen people are missing. Because of the masses of debris and mud that came down from the slopes on Tuesday, a hundred houses were destroyed.
Heavy rainfall in the south of the US state of California has killed at least thirteen people. Streets of the coastal village of Montecito, north of Los Angeles, were buried by mudslides and debris, reports the Los Angeles Times. Another twenty-five people were injured.
In the US state of Kansas, a man had to pay for a telephone joke with death when the police surrounded his home after a report and shot him. The instigator, a 25-year-old man, has been arrested in Los Angeles, reports NBC News.
Big panic Saturday night in the upscale Bel Air neighborhood near Los Angeles. A suspicious package had been delivered to the home of the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
The thousands of firefighters who are trying to control the sizeable conflagration to the northwest of Los Angeles have received some help from the weather. Their work has become somewhat easier because the wind in the area has been somewhat reduced and the humidity has increased.
Due to the ongoing forest fires in California, part of the city of Santa Barbara is now also under threat. The California authorities ordered Saturday for new evacuations of this area, writes the LA Times. Residents of the hilly region around Montecito and Summerland, where many rich people live, are advised to seek a safe haven as soon as possible.
For the time being, the end of the fires that plague California is not yet in sight. Strong wind stirred the fire on Saturday in many places. It is now about the third fire in the history of the American state.
The vast nature fire in California has demanded a second life. Fire brigade commander Ken Pimlott announced Thursday that one of his employees died during work. He did not make any statements about the circumstances.
California pulls out all the stops to fight the relentless fires in the state. In the meantime, more than 5,800 firefighters from several states are active. They suffer a lot from the strong wind.
The self-appointed avocado capital of the world, the Californian town of Fallbrook, has been hit hard by the devastating forest fires. Experts fear that many farmers can write off their harvest completely.
Large forest fires surround the densely populated Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run including celebrities such as Lionel Richie and Paris Hilton. The fire has also reached the chic district Bel-Air where a number of exclusive villas went up in flames.
Because of the fierce fires that ravage California, more than 100,000 people have already been evacuated. Also hundreds of schools have been closed as a precaution. As far as we know, no victims have been killed so far.
The American state of California is deploying more than a thousand firefighters to fight the wildfires that flared up a few days ago. The fire threatens more than 12,000 houses.
Forest fires in California draw north of Los Angeles a trail of devastation. The fire so far destroyed about 150 buildings, including a large apartment complex. A resident of Ventura, fleeing from the flames, saw her own house being destroyed by the fire live on television.
The American state of California has once again been startled by a large wildfire. Some 27,000 people were forced to seek refuge, the Los Angeles Times reported. There are also 260,000 connections without electricity.
The man who wiggles for every match in the Los Angeles Kings mascot suit of 'Bailey' has been charged with a dishwashing machine. He claims that in 2016 he was touched by 'the lion' in the elevator of the Kings stadium.
Auction house Christie \u0026 # x27; s the estate of David and Peggy Rockefeller next spring in New York under the hammer. For sale come a Picasso, a Matisse and a Monet, according to a spokeswoman against the ANP. The proceeds are for ten good causes.
The late sixties of the last century were a time of love and peace and flowers for part of Western humanity. From this subculture of the colorful hippies also less peaceful types came about and the last Sunday died Charles Manson is the most famous exponent of this.
Charles Manson, the American sect leader who incited his followers to gruesome murders in California in the 1960s, is hospitalized, reports the Los Angeles Times. What the 83-year-old Manson is wrong with, the authorities do not want to say on the basis of privacy rules.
The man who shot four people on Tuesday in northern California had killed his wife the night before. The police of the place Rancho Tehama told the newspaper Los Angeles Times this Wednesday.
The public prosecutor of Los Angeles City has set up a special working group to investigate all allegations of sexual abuse in the entertainment industry. Prosecutor Jackie Lacey announced Thursday that she has put together a team of experienced officers to look at business and ensure that they get an equal approach.
Uber is working with NASA's NASA aerospace organization to get grounded cars. Together they want to set up a kind of flight control. It must ensure that the cars are safe through cities.
Journalists and critics boycott Walt Disney films in solidarity with the Los Angeles Times. The LA Times, according to Disney, did not comply with 'basic journalistic values' and therefore the newspaper is now being spelled by the Micky Mouse company.
American actor Robert Guillaume died on Tuesday at the age of 89. He suffered from prostate cancer and died at Los Angeles, so his wife made known.
Dozens of women accuse US director James Toback (72) of sexual cross-border behavior. He asked young women sexually-asked questions or masturbates in their presence, the newspaper reported Los Angeles Times.
Dozens of women accuse US director James Toback (72) of sexual cross-border behavior. He asked young women sexually-asked questions or masturbates in their presence, the newspaper reported Los Angeles Times.
The police are conducting investigations following a report of sexual violence against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Whoever has reported and what matters exactly did not want to say the police in Los Angeles. The abuse would have taken place in 2013.
Natural fires in northern California have cost at least ten people's lives and certainly 1,500 buildings have gone up in flames. Burning in the area more than fourteen burns and possibly more people were killed.
The shooter's girlfriend who launched a massacre in Las Vegas arrived in the United States on Tuesday night. The 62-year-old Marilou Danley arrived at Los Angeles Airport. She came from the Philippines.
Airbnb is planning a new market. It is now possible to reserve tables in restaurants through the platform. First, only in the United States, at about 650 establishments in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but later this year, also in other countries.
