Deported veteran returns to US to become American citizen
LOS ANGELES — It took nearly a decade and a federal lawsuit for U.S. Marine Corps veteran Hector Ocegueda to finally come home.
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Canada’s Flair Airlines plans flights to US in October
Canadians and Americans looking to fly across the border could have one more airline to choose from this fall, if virus-related travel restrictions ...
Dozens of states target Google’s app store in antitrust suit
SAN RAMON, Calif. — Dozens of states are taking aim at Google in an escalating legal offensive on Big Tech, this time in a...
Democrats bet on early Latino outreach to avoid ’20 pitfalls
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — On a sweaty recent Thursday afternoon, Alex Berrios is instructing his team on how to get people to register to vote....
California nixing algae that crowds out food for sea animals
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — For the first time, scientists say they have seen a species of bright green algae growing in the waters off...
Free samples are back, but with safety in mind
NEW YORK — When Pat Curry spotted bite-sized wood-fire rotisserie chicken with portabella mushroom at her local Costco in early June, she felt “giddy."...
More states agree to settlement plan for opioid-maker Purdue
More than a dozen states have dropped their longstanding objections to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's reorganization plan, edging the company closer to resolving its...
Doctors to evaluate competency of office shooting suspect
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Criminal proceedings were suspended Thursday for a man charged with killing four people in a shooting at a Southern California...
Michael Avenatti faces sentencing in Nike extortion scheme
NEW YORK — Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who publicly sparred with then-President Donald Trump before criminal fraud charges on two coasts disrupted...
Families fostering migrant kids offer what shelters cannot
SAN DIEGO — Chris Umphlett and his family worked in small ways to help the 12-year-old girl from Honduras — who barely uttered a...