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Aug. 10—Sonoma County is set to receive $2.6 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover costs connected with the 2019 Kincade Fire. Reps. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, announced the grant in a news release Wednesday and praised FEMA for reimbursing the county. "This fire caused widespread evacuations, forcing the county to set up their ...

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Aug. 10—A driver died Wednesday morning in a five-vehicle crash in Santa Rosa that shut down the eastbound lanes on Highway 12 for more than two hours, authorities said. The crash happened at about 8 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. Lanes reopened at 10:30 a.m. This device is unable to display framed content. Click here to view this embed. A driver going east on Highway 12 in ...

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LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the crash in the Windsor Hills neighborhood that left five people dead are trying to sort out the actions and mindset of the nurse who prosecutors say plowed her Mercedes into the intersection. Investigators are still trying to get a full account of what brought Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, to the corner of Slauson and La Brea avenues last Thursday ...

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Aug. 10—Police and emergency crews were sent to a three-vehicle crash on U.S. 31 at Hayes Street in Grand Haven Township shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday. Ottawa County Central Dispatch at the time said at least one occupant of one of the three vehicles was pinned in. Police at the scene said one of the drivers fell asleep at the wheel while driving north on U.S. 31, struck a car, and then ...

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EL GRANADA — A two-car crash Wednesday closed a section of Highway 1 at the Half Moon Bay Airport and sent three people to the hospital with serious injuries. The crash was reported at 4:15 p.m. in El Granada — a village in northern San Mateo County. Witnesses said a man driving an SUV north on Highway 1 swerved off the road, overcorrected and then veered into oncoming traffic, said California ...

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A 17-year-old boy died early Saturday evening after he was in a head-on wreck with a tractor-trailer near Montgomery, authorities said Wednesday. The teen, whose name was not released because he was a juvenile, was driving a 2013 Ford Fusion around 3:30 a.m. Saturday when he collided head-on with a 2021 Volvo tractor-trailer on U.S. 331 near the 76-mile marker — about 20 miles south of ...

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Officials in South Jersey were investigating widespread reports of a natural gas odor that prompted multiple emergency calls in the area Wednesday afternoon. Reports of the odor were apparently centered in the Gloucester County area, according to officials. “We are aware that this odor is extremely widespread throughout western Gloucester and other parts of the county,” the Gloucester County ...

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ANTIOCH — Fire investigators arrested an Oakland resident on suspicion of arson following a two-alarm vegetation fire that charred an acre Monday and came dangerously close to homes, fire officials said. The 37-year-old was spotted by a witness who photographed him as he fled the area, according to Contra Costa Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Hill. Investigators arrested him about ...

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Syracuse, N.Y. — About 25 firefighters were called Wednesday afternoon to a house engulfed in flames in the city’s Valley neighborhood. The fire at the two-story home at 217 Searlwyn Road was reported at about 2:18 p.m. Firefighters first saw the front of the house consumed by the fire with smoke pouring from the top floor, Syracuse Fire Department District Chief Mark Hatch said. They ...

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Aug. 10—MONROE TOWNSHIP — Investigations into a fatal crash in Monroe Township are ongoing. Billy R. Hosier Jr., 31, of Conneaut, was killed in a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Route 7 and Route 84 at 4:22 p..m. on Tuesday, according to a press release from OHP. Hosier was riding a motorcycle northbound on Route 7 when Sara Murkens, 22, of Springboro, Pennsylvania, pulled out in ...