THE mayor, ex-city manager and six current and former officials of a blue-collar California suburb were headed from jail to court as residents of Bell celebrated their arrest on charges of bilking taxpayers out of $5.5 million (€4.1m).

A man accused of killing 11 people by parking his truck in a Los Angeles commuter train’s path intended to get his estranged wife’s attention by causing “a horrific tragedy,” not to kill himself as originally thought, police said.

A suicidal man parked his off-road vehicle on a California railway line, setting off a crash between two commuter trains that killed at least 11 people in America’s worst train accident in nearly six years.