California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has launched the first-in-the-nation Disaster Corps to professionalize, standardize and coordinate trained disaster volunteers statewide. Disaster...
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California’s violent crime rate has declined 6.6 percent in the past year, according to the California Department of Justice’s annual...
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A storm in Washington’s Columbia Basin that left up to six inches of hail on the ground damaged crops in...
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The Schultz fire burning in Arizona near Flagstaff has incurred up to $5 million in claims to date, according to...
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Yellowstone County commissioners say the tornado-damaged Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Mont., appears to be structurally sound. Commissioners Jim Reno...
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David Kilgore, 46, of Bakersfield, Calif., has turned himself in to the Kern County Sheriffs Department on June 17 for...
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A Lynnwood, Wash., man has been charged with insurance fraud after claiming that car thieves had made off with his...
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Survivors of a tornado that tore into Montana’s largest indoor arena and leveled several commercial buildings returned to a scene...
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The wildfire burning near Flagstaff, Ariz., has claimed more than 14,000 acres and is only 20 percent contained three days...
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Former life insurance agent James Alfred Morris, 66, of Covina, Calif., has been sentenced on June 10 to five years...
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