Saturday, December 27, 2025

West laughs about East Coast quake

LOS ANGELES - Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Wildfire jumps aqueduct, approaches homes

PALMDALE, Calif. - A huge wildfire in the high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles jumped an aqueduct on Friday, rushing toward hundreds of houses as firefighters also tried to keep flames from damaging power lines that bring electricity to Southern California.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO