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Mario Romero looks at mud debris covering Maricopa Highway 33 North of Ojai that has several closures due to mud and debris slides covering the roadway Tuesday morning.

At least 15 dead as heavy rains trigger flooding, mudflows across Southern California

August 22, 2019 at 2:18 a.m.

At least 15 people were killed Tuesday when a rainstorm sent mud and debris coursing through Montecito, Calif., neighborhoods and left rescue crews to scramble through clogged roadways and downed...

Passenger mix-up on flight to Japan caps a year of airline foul-ups

August 22, 2019 at 2:10 a.m.

As air travel controversies go, this one ranks low in violence but high in public relations nightmare potential: A puzzling passenger mix-up, a flight to nowhere and a celebrity couple...

Chased by California fire, badly burned mountain lion cub faces long road to recovery

August 22, 2019 at 2:09 a.m.

When Santa Paula animal control officer Donovan Varela first saw the mountain lion run from authorities, the cub didn’t appear injured. But like so many other creatures that have emerged...

Sheriff's and FBI investigators at Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where a gunman opened fire earlier this week but was unable to get inside.

Gunman in Northern California rampage ‘didn’t pick the school randomly,’ D.A. says

August 22, 2019 at 1:41 a.m.

A gunman’s attack on an elementary school during a deadly rampage in Northern California this week was not a random act as authorities initially thought, prosecutors said Friday. Kevin Janson...

Before Kevin Neal's shooting rampage through Rancho Tehama, Calif., authorities often received complaints of gunfire coming from his mobile home, above.

His constant gunfire terrorized neighbors, but authorities could not prevent California gunman’s rampage

August 22, 2019 at 1:40 a.m.

The screaming and gunfire coming from Kevin Neal’s blue mobile home last week was so disturbing that Jayne Barnes-Vinson called the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office to complain. “I heard a...

The sun sets behind Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, where a gunman targeted a music festival. Murrieta couple Dennis and Lorraine Carver, who survived the massacre, have died in a car crash near their home.

Husband and wife who survived Las Vegas shooting die in car crash

August 22, 2019 at 1:27 a.m.

A Murrieta couple who grew closer after surviving the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 died weeks later in a car crash not far from their home, relatives...

Mike Campbell, left, and Tom Petty of the Heartbreakers perform at Wrigley Field on June 29, 2017, in Chicago.

Tom Petty hospitalized, but no official confirmation of his death despite widespread reports

June 2, 2018 at 3:22 a.m.

Tom Petty was taken to UCLA Medical Center for a cardiac incident Sunday night, law enforcement has confirmed to The Times, but as of 1:15 p.m. PST Monday there was...

Video shows Southern California officer struggling with suspect before fatal shooting

August 22, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

A Huntington Beach police officer was captured on video Friday morning as he struggled with a suspect in a convenience store parking lot and then shot the man multiple times,...

A woman shelters in the shade of the entrance to the California Science Center in Exposition Park.

San Francisco sets heat record at 106 degrees during hottest recorded summer

August 22, 2019 at 12:44 a.m.

In almost 150 years of record keeping, it has never been as hot in San Francisco as it was on Friday. Amid a brutal heat wave that has broiled California...

DEATH VALLEY, CA - JULY 12: Collen Zato and a member of her support team walk to the Whitney Portal during the STYR Labs Badwater 135 on July 12, 2017 in Death Valley, California. The start of the 135 mile race is at Badwater Basin, Death Valley, which marks the lowest elevation in North America at 280 feet below sea level. The race finishes at Whitney Portal at 8,360 feet. The course covers three mountain ranges for a total of 14,600 feet of cumulative vertical ascent. Whitney Portal is the trailhead to the Mt. Whitney summit, the highest point in the contiguous United States. The hottest temperature in the world was recorded in Death Valley with a temperature of 134 degrees (56.6 Celcius). (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Death Valley breaks 100-year-old record for hottest month ever

August 22, 2019 at 12:23 a.m.

There's hot, and then there's Death Valley hot. While Southern California and much of the West cooked in July under a pair of heat waves that killed livestock, knocked out...

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