A Malibu wildfire prompts evacuation orders and warnings for 20,000, including Dick Van Dyke, Cher

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Weather conditions were forecast to improve this week in Southern California, aiding firefighters in their battle against a wind-driven wildfire that's forced up to 20,000 people — including performers Cher, Dick Van Dyke and his wife — from their homes. ...

Avid Bioservices: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — Avid Bioservices Inc. (CDMO) on Tuesday reported a loss of $17.4 million in its fiscal second quarter. The Tustin, California-based company said it had a loss of 27 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for stock option expense, were 22...

San Diego sheriff defies new policy to limit cooperation with immigration officials

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The sheriff of the nation’s fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over a new obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. Earlier Tuesday, San...

Behind Okerke, Cornell tops Cal for first win against the ACC since 1951

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — AK Okereke scored 24 points and Cooper Norad scored 21 points and Cornell withstood a furious second-half rally by Cal and beat the Golden Bears 88-80 on Tuesday. Nazir Williams added 18 points and Jake Fiegen 11 for the Big Red (7-3), which beat an Atlantic...

Celebrities and coastal residents flee from wind-driven wildfire in Malibu

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Evacuation orders and warnings have gone out to 20,000 Southern California residents Tuesday as firefighters battled a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu that burned near celebrities' seaside mansions, horse farms and Pepperdine University, the sheriff's department said. ...

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When fire threatened a California university, the school says it knew what to do

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — The wildfire alert came in the middle of the night as some college students in Southern California were cramming for final exams and others were woken up in their dorms. But rather than run away from the impending blaze, some 3,000 students at Pepperdine...

Monarch butterflies to be listed as a threatened species in US

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change. The U.S. Fish and...

Loop Media: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Loop Media Inc. (LPTV) on Tuesday reported a loss of $6.2 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Burbank, California-based company said it had a loss of 7 cents. The multichannel streaming...

A Southwest jet and a small plane wound up on the same runway after being cleared to land

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Southwest Airlines jet wound up on the same runway with a small private plane that had stopped after an air traffic controller cleared both planes to land on the same California runway in October, according to federal investigators. The National Transportation...