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The Merced Sheriff's Department said a local militia group has activated itself to help in the effort against the out-of-control Oak Fire. The sheriff's office said in a statement released Sunday, that they are not un-supportive of community groups helping neighbors, but they wanted to stress they have not requested assistance from any militia group.

Lam Hang-chi Aug 1, 2016 3:25pm Business with Beijing can’t make Seoul feel safe, but THAAD can All the developments following the international tribunal’s ruling in the Hague that disavowed Beijing’s “historical right” to disputed waters and islands in the South China Sea have actually affirmed Beijing’s accusation that Washington is behind all this. As tensions rise in the region, US Vice President Joe Biden has kept himself busy with a high-profile trip to the Asia-Pacific. After a meeting with Japanese and Korean deputy foreign ministers during a brief layover in Hawaii, he visited Australia and New Zealand and delivered...

Savvy Yanks head for Canada's outpost to celebrate their day Embassy roof is the place to be for Independence Day events L. Ian MacDonald, The Montreal Gazette Published: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 For years, one of the most prized July 4 invitations in Washington has been to the Canadian ambassador's party on the embassy's sixth-floor terrace, with its unrivalled view of the U.S. Capitol and the spectacular fireworks over the Mall. It isn't so much about the neighbours as the neighbourhood. In other words, location, location, location. And the location of our embassy is second to none, on Pennsylvania...

U.S. 'Top 10' fugitive arrested in Montreal Updated Sun. May. 13 2007 9:29 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff A U.S. fugitive on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list will appear in a Montreal court on Monday charged with immigration violations. Richard Steve Goldberg, 61, was arrested early Saturday in suburban Montreal by a police tactical team. He is being held under the Immigration and Detention Act. Richard Goldberg is taken into custody early Saturday morning May 12, 2007 by a police SWAT team in Montreal. Canadian authorities will seek to keep Goldberg, who is on the FBI's 10 Most...

Falls lit up in crimson and orange in memorial to Virginia Tech dead National Post Published: Monday, April 23, 2007 Niagara Falls was last night lit up in crimson and orange, the colours of Virginia Tech University where 33 people died in a shooting rampage last week. Vince Anello, the mayor of Niagara Falls, N.Y., said: "I can think of no more appropriate venue to memorialize these students and educators than the beauty of one of God's most majestic natural treasures." The tribute would "allow the good and decent people of Southern Ontario and Western New York to reach...

A Black Hawk helicopter touched down in their pasture to ferry a heart patient to safety. Thirty stranded travelers said goodbye after staying two nights. Fourteen others settled in for their third straight overnight stay. And four more who had spent a chilly, frightening night in their snowbound car stopped in for some cocoa before hitting the road. That was New Year's Eve at the Glover family's small ranch home between Clayton and Springer, which became the only port in the storm for dozens of northeastern New Mexico travelers caught in the Blizzard of 2006. "It's pretty quiet," Christine Glover...

Christine and Randy Glover had a full house — 44 sudden guests stranded by a blizzard along a rural highway in northeastern New Mexico.... Motorists from Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas descended on the Glovers' three-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot home after their vehicles became stuck in 3- to 4-foot deep snowdrifts on U.S. 56 highway between Springer and Clayton. ''We just were in the right place at the right time,'' said Christine Glover. The stranded motorists spent Friday and Saturday at the home. Most left Sunday as the highway was cleared... She and her husband realized motorists were trapped only 150 yards...

The destruction and despair wreaked by hurricanes Katrina and Rita were unprecedented. So was the generous response of the residents of south Louisiana. They came from all walks of life. Mechanics, sales clerks, bus drivers, business owners, college students, schoolchildren. They came from every neighborhood, some alone and some with family. In many cases, Katrina’s wild winds still churned as people poured into the Cajundome, into Acadiana’s shelters and churches, into our streets and our homes. They came because life in Louisiana had changed in those unthinkable moments when the levees burst. And then, even more came when, inconceivably, a...

Indonesia Needs Help, Death Toll Expected To Exceed 400,000 Thu Dec 30 2004 12:52:01 ET KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- The death toll in Acheh, the region worst hit by last Sunday's tsunami, may exceed 400,000 as many affected areas could still not be reached for search and rescue operations, Indonesia's Ambassador to Malaysia Drs H. Rusdihardjo said Thursday. He said the estimate was based on air surveillance by Indonesian authorities who found no signs of life in places like Meulaboh, Pulau Simeulue and Tapak Tuan while several islands off the west coast of Sumatera had "disappeared". He said...