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More than 6,000 gallons of oil has been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast, just a fraction of the sticky, stinking goo that escaped from a broken pipeline, officials said.
About 23,000 ballots were cast in Tuesday's election for a school board seat representing district 5, though more have yet to be counted, the Los Angeles City Clerk's office reported. Turnout in two other school board districts so far was 9.2 percent and 5.9 percent, the data shows.
A senior water official told The Associated Press Wednesday that he would decide whether to accept the offer by Friday. The concession by farmers in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river delta could be one of the most important yet forced by California's record four-year drought.
The state now collects the records every three years on a staggered basis, meaning its information is always out of date. State officials acknowledge it's not adequate when they are dealing with a water crisis.
Cleanup crews are preparing to fan out along a stretch of California coastline stained by crude oil that spilled from broken pipe and flowed into the ocean.
A bouncer at a Norco bar has been fired after he says helping a woman who had been assaulted disobeyed his boss's orders.
A graphic video of the fatal jump, posted to YouTube on Monday, shows someone engulfed in flames and falling from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake River, 500 feet below.
Among other cities that have expressed interest are Austin, Texas; Sacramento, California; St. Louis; and San Antonio; and to a lesser extent El Paso, Texas; Indianapolis; and Las Vegas.
Zaniboni says firefighters responding to reports of the smell of gas on the beach found the thick black slick and traced it to the pipeline.
California Gov. Jerry Brown and leaders from 11 other states and provinces are signing a pact on climate change that vows to reduce carbon emissions.
Robin, a 3-year-old female Belgian Malinois, was stung by more than 100 bees as she helped Monterey Park police search for a suspect.
A California prostitute charged with killing a Google executive with an overdose of heroin aboard his yacht pleaded guilty Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs.
Authorities say a mountain lion spotted three times in a residential area south of San Francisco has been captured and released back into the wild.
Federal authorities say three baggage handlers at Oakland International Airport are among 14 people charged as part of an alleged marijuana smuggling ring.
A storage company and its owner have been sentenced to time served and ordered to pay nearly $60,000 for illegally disposing of thousands of gallons of untreated human waste in the desert east of San Diego.
