SAN DIEGO — The City Council will consider letting the air out of “floatopia” parties that involve thousands of people boozing it up on inner tubes just offshore. The council was scheduled to meet Monday to consider closing a loophole in the city ban on drinking at the beach. An amended version would ban seagoing boozing by floaters, swimmers, waders and bodysurfers up to three nautical miles offshore. People on boats would be exempted.
A $120,000 settlement between the Metropolitan Police Department and the man originally accused of drunken driving in a fatal police crash was approved Monday by the agency’s Fiscal Affairs Committee.
LOS ANGELES — Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband says the actress remains in critical condition after receiving a blood transfusion. The 93-year-old Gabor received the transfusion Friday night.
MADRID — A Spanish man who underwent the world’s first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery. Identified only as Oscar, the 31-year-old spoke with considerable difficulty at a news conference. During the surgery, doctors lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it masklike onto the man. He has been unable to breathe or eat on his own after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.
Zion National Park, Utah Zion National Park officials say three men who were swept away by a flash flood in a canyon were able to signal for help and be rescued.
Authorities are trying to determine what caused a malfunction that sent fireworks shooting into a crowd of spectators during a celebration in Salt Lake City.
RENO — Police are responding to complaints from casinos and residents who want to see Reno clean up its downtown.
BELL, Calif. — Several hundred angry residents from a modest blue-collar Los Angeles suburb marched Sunday to call for the resignation of the mayor and some City Council members in a protest sparked by the sky-high salaries of three administrators who quit Friday.