LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Thousands of residents calmly fled the town that’s home to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory as a rapidly-growing wildfire approached, sending up towering plumes of smoke, raining down ash and charring the fringes of the sprawling lab’s property. The blaze, which began Sunday, had destroyed 30 structures south of Los Alamos and forced the closure of the lab while stirring memories of a devastating blaze in May 2000…
HONDO, N.M. – A wildfire burning on part of a southern New Mexico ranch owned by veteran newsman Sam Donaldson is uncontained and chewing through more terrain. Fire information officer Jennifer Myslivy says the fire had burned an estimated 30,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon. It also has charred about 1,200 acres on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation. Crews are using bulldozers to cut fire lines and are conducting back-burns to rob fuel fro…
MOSCOW – Shia LaBeouf’s days of battling the Decepticons look to be over, with the Transformers star saying he has nothing more to offer after three films playing kid-next-door Sam Witwicky. The 26-year-old American actor said he was through with the action-packed franchise. “I’m done,” he told The Associated Press at the recent opening of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” at the Moscow International Film Festi…
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, blaming Major League Baseball for rejecting a television deal that would have given the storied baseball team an urgent injection of cash. The filing marks a dramatic attempt by Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who is embroiled in a bitter divorce from his ex-wife Jamie, to prevent the league and MLB Commissioner Bud Selig from seizing the team, whic…
LOS ANGELES – A driver plowed into a group of bicyclists on a midnight ride Thursday in a suspected drunken driving crash that injured 11 riders, at least one critically, police said. A group of about 100 cyclists were on a ride about 8 miles south of downtown Los Angeles when they were struck by a Honda Civic shortly before 2 a.m. Some bicyclists told KTTV a woman driving the car appeared to be using a cell phone before the crash. They said she…
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Britain’s Prince William and his new bride Catherine arrived in Los Angeles for a weekend of Hollywood glamour and Californian sun, after a nine-day tour of Canada. The 29-year-old is also due to play polo up the Pacific coast in Santa Barbara, and visit an inner-city Skid Row project in downtown Los Angeles during the three-day stay, Catherine’s first ever trip to the United States. The couple — she in a …