Detectives treating Los Angeles bishop’s death as homicide
Los Angeles, US AP A Roman Catholic bishop in Southern California was shot and killed Saturday just blocks from a church, a slaying of a longtime priest hailed as a “peacemaker” that’s stunned the Los Angeles religious community, authorities said. Detectives are investigating the death of Bishop David O’Connell as a homicide, according to the […]
Roadkill rate for California cougars puts population at risk
Los Angeles, US Reuters Mountain lions have been dying on California highways at the rate of at least one or two every week in recent years, a roadkill toll that may exceed healthy reproductive levels for the big cats, new wildlife mortality data showed on Thursday. Maps documenting deadly highway crossings – clustered most heavily […]
Updated: Death toll from California massacre rises to 11 as police look for motive
Updated: 10:30am (AEST)Monterey Park, California, USReuters An 11th victim died from injuries on Monday after an elderly gunman’s deadly rampage at a Los Angeles-area dance hall, California police said, as authorities were still searching for a motive behind one of the state’s worst mass shootings. Police identified 72-year-old Huu Can Tran as the suspect in […]
Updated: Ten killed in ballroom shooting near Los Angeles during Lunar New Year party
Updated: 3:55pm, 23rd January, 2023 (AEST)Monterey Park, California, USReuters A 72-year-old gunman killed himself when approached by police on Sunday, about 12 hours after he had carried out a Lunar New Year massacre at a dance club that left 10 people dead and another 10 wounded. The gunman tried to carry out another shooting at […]
Religious life: New book spotlights influence of Pentecostalism on California’s Mexican farmworkers
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on a new book – ‘Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California’ – which recounts how ‘divine healing’ was seen as a pragmatic way to care for impoverished workers who lacked regular access to medical care…
California is deluged by record rain with more storms coming
Mendocino, California, USReuters The seventh consecutive atmospheric river since Christmas dumped more rain on Northern California on Wednesday, offering little relief for a state already battered by floods, gale force winds, power outages and evacuations of entire towns. While Wednesday’s deluge was relatively minor, with less rainfall and mostly contained to north-western California, another atmospheric […]
Storms inundate California, provoking mudslides, evacuations
La Conchita, California, USReuters The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, knocking out power and turning city streets into rivers as mudslides cut off highways and entire communities faced evacuation orders. More than 33 million Californians were threatened by severe weather throughout the day as “heavy to excessive” […]
Essay: Nuclear fusion may still be decades away, but the latest breakthrough could speed up its development
JUSTIN WARK and GIANLUCA GREGORI, professors of physics at the University of Oxford, assess – in an article published on The Conversation, the latest breakthrough in the development of nuclear fusion as an unlimited and clean energy source…
Missing targets: World making little progress on food waste, a big climate problem
NICHOLA GROOM and LEAH DOUGLAS, of Reuters, report on the ongoing battle to reduce food waste…
A vision to build on Rick Warren’s legacy: New Saddleback pastor sees women clergy in church’s future
DEEPA BHARATH, of Associated Press, speaks with Andy Wood, successor to Rick Warren at Saddleback Church in California, about his grand vision to build on Warren’s legacy and take Saddleback to the biggest cities in the US and the world…