California’s weather turned largely dry in January and left the water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack below average for this time of year, state officials said after measurements Thursday.
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Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world’s most popular writers, died Friday at age 92.
Authorities have blocked 50 million people from leaving Wuhan and nearby cities at the center of the outbreak. That in turn requires a massive effort to keep them supplied with food and other necessities.
The U.S. advised against all travel to China as the number of cases of a new virus spiked more than tenfold in a week.
Arizona authorities confirmed Thursday that two sets of remains found in the desert near the Virgin River Gorge area in 2018 are those of a Littlefield, Arizona, couple.
The body of a woman found in central Oklahoma nearly 40 years ago and known only as “Lime Lady” has been identified as a missing Las Vegas woman.
Lev Aslan Dermen has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts, including money laundering and mail fraud.
His gift for picking shows that resonated with viewers prompted Time magazine to dub him “The Man with the Golden Gut” in a 1977 profile.
He was accused of killing Jennifer Dulos, who has not been seen since she dropped their five children off at school in New Canaan in May.
The case began as a hand-scrawled complaint filed last December by the two irate brothers, but it got significant legal backing.
A total of 22 people have been arrested in the sting, and nine have been convicted or pleaded guilty, according to police.
The Chicago woman, who is in her 60s, returned from central China on Jan. 13, then last week went to a hospital with symptoms and was diagnosed with the viral illness. She and her husband are hospitalized.
European countries on Thursday stepped up efforts to contain the virus infecting central China. Italian authorities kept some 7,000 people on a cruise ship while they checked for a possible infection.
The vast majority of the cases have been in Hubei province and its provincial capital, Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak.
Vanessa Bryant made her first public comment Wednesday since the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, one of their daughters and seven others.
