A woman who was stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California for nine days survived by using a water filter to drink from a creek, authorities said.

ENGLAND: As many as 22% of adults still play with toy cars even when their children are not around, according to a survey.

Judy Greer chose a vibrantly coloured maxi-dress from Stella MacCartney’s Resort 2015 collection for the premier of Fresno at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. 

The time has come for this page to lead an investigation. To blow a lid off. The problem had grown too insidious. The gains too insane.

Authorities in central California are searching for those who broke into a chicken ranch and used a golf club to kill more than 900 birds.

WALES: A man has completed his challenge to push a Brussels sprout up Snowdon using his nose, the BBC reports.

A revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos who led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army during the Vietnam War has died.

A TROVE of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for $45 (€35) have been authenticated as the lost work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said yesterday.

Six people died when their Greyhound bus crashed in California’s Central Valley today.

Hollywood actress Charlize Theron is rallying support for the campaign for gay marriage - she has written an open letter calling for people of all sexual preferences to join in an upcoming demonstration in California.

A US federal judge has ruled that California’s water systems threaten to push native salmon into extinction, but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers say could cost millions in lost crops.

The number of US homes heading towards repossession more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, as weakening property values and tighter lending left many owners powerless to prevent them from being auctioned to the highest bidder, a research firm said today.

The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin in California has sued a deposed bishop, demanding he vacate his offices and turn over financial accounts for leading a secession last year prompted by the church’s ordination of women and gays.

Lightning struck a group of boy scouts taking shelter from a storm in the US, killing the troop leader and leaving a 13-year-old boy clinically dead, in the latest tragedy to hit the organisation this week.

A man charged with killing nine of his children, allegedly fathered through polygamy and incest, planned a mass suicide as early as 1995 if authorities came to take his family away, a California detective said.

Six coroners, three times the typical weekend staff, worked in shifts to identify the nine victims of a mass killing in California.

A man has been arrested after the bodies of a woman, a teenager and seven children were found in a home, police in California said today.

Embattled California governor Gray Davis challenged Arnold Schwarzenegger in vain to a debate “right here, right now”, accusing the Terminator star of distorting his record.

A transient has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing a Greyhound bus driver in the neck with a pair of scissors, causing a crash that killed two passengers.

A PASSENGER slashed a bus driver’s throat as he sped at 70 mph through California on Monday night, causing the vehicle to roll 150 yards into a field.

A passenger slashed a Greyhound driver’s throat as he drove through California last night, causing the vehicle to roll into a field.

A CAMPER was arrested for allegedly starting a 55,000-acre fire that has gobbled swaths of Sequoia National Park and threatened some of the most treasured trees in the American forest system.

Colombian gunmen forced nine people from their homes and killed them in front of their families in two separate attacks, police said.