GRANADA HILLS -- An apparent custody battle was the motive for an attack Saturday in which a man with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire outside a Catholic church, wounding three people, including his
ex-girlfriend. Video
A charter bus overturned Saturday on a
Mojave Desert freeway, killing a woman and injuring 21 other
people, authorities said.
Glen Johnson | 2:31 PM PDT
HYANNIS PORT, MA -- A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy says he is
conscious and talking to family after he suffered a seizure in his
Cape Cod home and was flown to a Boston hospital.
Big Brown powered to the lead turning for home
and then sailed through the stretch to win the Preakness, still
perfect and squarely pointed down the path toward thoroughbred
racing's first Triple Crown in 30 years.
LA PALMA -- A retired Los Angeles policeman has been charged with possessing
child pornography, a year after he was tackled while snapping photos
of young girls at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival.
ANGELS CAMP -- State safety inspectors on Saturday
began investigating what caused the mechanical failure of a
carnival ride that injured 23 people, mostly children, at the
Calaveras County Fair.
POMONA -- Firefighters braced for more hot and dry weather Saturday
as they worked to surround a wildfire that has burned 460 acres of parched brushlands in the San Gabriel Mountains. Video
LOS ANGELES -- Temperatures are expected to hit the century mark in
parts of the Southland Friday, and record or near-record temperatures are
expected in valley areas.
Doug Alden | 12:06 PM PDT
Kobe Bryant has some time to rest his back. Not that he appears to need it.
FAIRFAX DISTRICT-- At least two people were injured Friday night after a trolley
carrying 72 people lost its brakes at the Grove shopping center, authorities
said.
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. -- A five-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after taking his grandmother's truck on a joy ride that ended in a crash in New York. Video
CERRITOS -- It's not your typical ATM robbery. This time the suspects stole the entire ATM, in the middle of the night, and the whole thing was caught on surveillance tape. Video
A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted
the former head of UCLA's cadaver program on eight felony counts
for allegedly trafficking in parts of bodies donated to the
university.
CHATSWORTH -- Authorities have questioned several Chatsworth High School students who were in Mason Park on the same day three teenage girls were found unconscious, but no arrests were made. Video
LOUISVILLE, KY -- Republican Mike Huckabee is apologizing for an unscripted attempt at humor. Video
EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA -- A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.
BERKELEY -- Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner
who put California wine country on the global map, has died. He was
94.
SAN DIEGO -- Federal prosecutors say the probe into the May
4 bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse has led to a woman
being charged with using a false identification to try to obtain
explosives.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery
was sentenced to 46 months in prison Friday for his part in a
multimillion-dollar fake-check scheme.
SAN JACINTO -- The leader of Southern California's Soboba Indian tribe agreed Friday to establish a joint operation plan with Riverside County sheriff's officials after three people were killed on the reservation in gunbattles with deputies. Video
COMMERCE -- Three people were killed on Interstate 5 south of downtown Los Angeles Friday morning after a motorist driving the wrong way crashed head-on into another vehicle. Video
LONG BEACH -- Long Beach police sought the public's help today in
the search for a suspected predator who allegedly tried to lure away two small
children earlier this month.
KINGMAN, ARIZONA -- Lawyers for imprisoned polygamist leader
Warren Jeffs will ask a judge to drop incest charges this afternoon
in an Arizona courtroom.
MILWAUKEE -- Police are searching for a man who boarded a Milwaukee bus then assaulted the driver. Authorities have released the shocking surveillance video in hopes of catching a suspect. Video
Jennifer Loven | 12:21 PM PDT
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA -- Saudi Arabia's leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.
H. Josef Hebert | 2:40 PM PDT
WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department says it has canceled oil shipments into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning in July when the current purchase contract expires.
Mike Glover | 11:19 AM PDT
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama rebuked Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for "dishonest, divisive" attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists, staunchly defending his national security credentials for the general election campaign.
CANOVANAS, PUERTO RICO -- For thoroughbreds in this U.S.
Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a
matter of life and death - losers often don't even make it off the
racetrack grounds alive.
Glen Johnson | 11:22 AM PDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- John McCain visited a gun shop Friday -- but bought just a rod, bobbers and other fishing equipment -- during the first stop in a day of courtship of the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment devotees.
MOUNT BALDY VILLAGE -- Firefighters face a second
day of hot and dry weather as they work to contain a wildfire on
towering Mount Baldy.
YANGON, Myanmar -- Torrential rain lashed victims of Cyclone Nargis on Friday as Myanmar's junta admitted more than 130,000 people were dead or missing, putting the disaster on a par with a 1991 cyclone that killed 143,000 in neighboring Bangladesh.
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