Tag: California

The National Weather Service’s map of warnings and advisories on Wednesday looked like the aftermath of letting a toddler loose with your painting supplies. High wind and winter storm warnings, forecasting wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour and more than half a foot of snowfall in 12 ...

Monterey Park (California): A gunman killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio amid Lunar New Year celebrations and then probably tried but failed to target a second dance hall, authorities said Sunday. An urgent search was underway across the Los Angeles area for the suspect. LA County Sheriff ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 5: A 48-year-old man considered a “person of interest” in the kidnapping of a four-member Sikh family, including an 8-month-old child, in the US state of California has been taken into custody and is in critical condition, authorities said, even as the victims are still missing.The ...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 100 migrants on Tuesday morning in California.Agents from the San Diego Sector apprehended the group of migrants nearly a half mile east of Border Field State Park in San Diego at 2 a.m., ...

Thousands of evacuation orders were issued in the US state of California on Saturday as a fast-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park began to grow rapidly. Evacuation orders were issued for over 6,000 people, Sierra National Forest spokesman Daniel Patterson said. More than 400 firefighters along with helicopters ...

Bridgeport: Firefighters in Northern California were battling a fresh wildfire that broke out on Monday east of Sacramento. The fire burning in Amador County quickly spread to 959 acres (388 hectares) as of just after 7 pm Monday, according to Cal Fire. The fire agency had said earlier on ...

When Prem Pariyar left Nepal for the United States in 2015, he thought he could leave caste discrimination and violence behind.  Pariyar, a social worker, is Dalit, part of a group formerly known as "untouchables" in South Asia. Dalits are at the bottom of a rigid social hierarchy determined by birth ...

Irfan Khan has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1996. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for ...

The University of California, Davis, has added caste to its anti-discrimination policy after students said they have seen discrimination take place at the university based on the practice of assigning people their social status at birth. Under UC Davis’ policy, which was amended in September, students or staff who ...

SACRAMENTO — Emal Salarzai woke up in the middle of the night a few weeks ago feeling like his skull was burning, a heat so real he went to the mirror and began shaving off his hair.“I was thinking about my mom and my dad,” he said, “I am the only ...