A 6-year-old boy playing with matches Sunday afternoon ignited a fire that burned the second floor of a family home in Woodland Hills, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
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Nine people were injured, three suffering critical injuries, in a multivehicle accident that shut down Western Avenue in South Los Angeles, authorities said late Sunday.
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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was injured Sunday night in West Hollywood when a motorist pulled out of a driveway and their two vehicles collided, said Sgt.
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America’s biggest catch lands here and at nearby ports every year: more than 2 billion pounds of Alaskan pollock to feed a global appetite for fish sticks, fast-food sandwiches and imitation crabmeat.
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The Bush Administration today declared a small, isolated population of Beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet as endangered species, rejecting arguments from Alaska Gov.
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At least one-quarter of the world’s mammals in the wild are threatened with extinction, according to an international survey released Monday that blames the loss of wildlife habitat as well as hunting and poaching for the steep declines.
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The Monterey Bay marine sanctuary off California’s Central Coast will expand its borders to include one of the largest undersea mountains in
U.S. waters, President Bush announced Friday.
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After years of dismal reports about collapsing fish stocks and failed fisheries management, scientists Friday will report that they have discovered how to reverse the trend: Give fishermen exclusive rights to a portion of the catch.
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It’s been frustrating to local anti-oil activists to see such attention given to a vote by Santa Barbara County supervisors in favor of new oil drilling off the county’s coastline.
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President Bush on Monday signaled his intention to protect some of the Pacific Ocean’s most remote and unspoiled islands, atolls and coral reefs from fishing and deep-sea mining.
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