IDYLLWILD, California -- On Thursday morning, firefighters in the Idyllwild area continued to battle a 4,700-acre brush fire that erupted the previous day and spread quickly, destroying 5 homes and prompting Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency.   As part of the declaration, Brown ordered California's Office of Emergency Services to provide government assistance to Riverside County and suspended a one-week waiting period for unemployment insurance benefits…

SAN BERNARDINO, California -- A 39-year-old pregnant mother of 8 was just feet from the curb after crossing a street in San Bernardino, California, when a black Dodge Charger ran a red light and slammed into her, according to the police department.   The impact threw Maribel Gonzalez, who had been crossing with the light in a marked crosswalk, 150 feet down the street, killing her, also, her unborn child,…

WOODLAND HILLS, California -- A longtime U.S. Postal worker was found dead in her truck on Friday after delivering mail when temperatures reached nearly 120 degrees in Southern California, her family said.   Peggy Frank, 63, was found unresponsive in her truck around 3 p.m. Friday in, local news reported. Paramedics arrived at the scene and pronounced the grandmother dead after several attempts to revive her.   The exact cause…

SANTA FE SPRINGS, California – A Downey motel shooting left 2 people killed on Saturday morning by a suspect that officials later arrested in Santa Fe Springs following an hour-long standoff.   A Los Angeles SWAT team helped in taking the 29-year-old Raymond Joseph Penland into custody from a Santa Fe Springs warehouse after he allegedly killed two people outside Rick’s Motel in Downey.   The Downey Police Department and…

LANCASTER, California -- A 10-year-old boy which was rushed from his Lancaster apartment to a hospital with critical injuries has died. A homicide investigation is ongoing Thursday, according to the officials.   The victim did survive the night but was pronounced dead at 6:30 a.m. Thursday at a local hospital, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.   There was no immediate information about the name of the boy…

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California -- An overnight shooting at an AirBnB house party in North Hollywood sent 7 people to the hospital, officials said.   When police arrived at the 12700 block of Tiara Street after a disturbance call just before 1 a.m, they describe a chaotic scene. When officers got to the scene, multiple people were running away as the sound of gunshots pierced through the darkness of the night,…

GUATEMALA -- A hot flow of mud, ash, and gas swept down from Guatemala's Fuego volcano on Monday, after a new explosion interrupted a disaster in the morning. Workers are pulling bodies from the brown sludge known as a pyroclastic flow that the village of El Rodeo is buried in.   The morning eruption also caused some rescue efforts on the southern slopes of Fuego, Spanish for "fire". The national…

Severe storms ravaged parts of the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic. It took at least two lives. It has passed, but the risk of flooding continues Wednesday.   Several thousands of customers were left without power on Tuesday as nickel to golf ball-sized hail and a possible tornado was reported from southern Massachusetts through Pennsylvania and into parts of Virginia.   The storms capable of producing damaging winds, large hail and…

HAWAII -- A volcanic eruption has spewed molten rock and hazardous gases from the ground in a small community on Hawaii's Big Island, sending people fleeing from their homes as trees burn and the threat of more destruction is feared.   A giant cracks about 500 feet long formed directly in the lower-elevation neighborhood of Leilani Estates, which has a population of about 1,500. From the crack, lava was shooting…

RIO RICO, Arizona -- One truck driver is fighting for his life and another has been booked on attempted murder charges following a parking spot dispute at an Arizona truck stop that turned bloody yesterday.   Dereck Johnson, a 37-year-old South Carolina-based truck driver, has been arrested and charged with 2nd degree attempted homicide for allegedly stabbing another truck driver at the Pilot Travel Center in Rio Rico, according to…