Month: October 2019

The Los Angeles Fire Department lifted its mandatory evacuation orders after a fire ripped across the hillside of the affluent Pacific Palisades area for about 10 hours Monday. The fire initially began around 10:30 a.m. PST at the base of Palisades Drive and quickly spread about 18 acres within 15 minutes. It quickly moved uphill

Authorities went door to door in parts of northern Dallas Monday after a powerful weekend tornado knocked out power and caused severe damage. A line of storms continued on to lash parts of the Great Plains, killing two people. As the storm passed through northwestern Arkansas, one man was killed after a tree fell on

Chicago public schools students will miss classes for a fourth day on Tuesday as a teachers’ strike drags on. The Chicago Teachers Union and city officials negotiated through the weekend but couldn’t reach a deal. On Monday, about 10 different proposals on various issues went back and forth, a senior city official told CNN. The

An African American security guard in Wisconsin who was fired for asking a student not to call him the n-word is celebrating his reinstatement. Interim Madison Metropolitan School District Jane Belmore decided to rescind Marlon Anderson’s termination, the Madison Teachers Inc., a union representing teachers and other staff, said in a statement on Monday. Anderson

Nasty. It is not a word associated much with Canada — except perhaps with the winters here. But during this election campaign, nastiness has been one of the only unifying themes, as parties trade insults and dig up scandals from coast to coast to coast. Canada voted in a general election on Monday, and the