A Southern California nurse has said she was working in the emergency room at her hospital when she learned a patient dying from a hit-and-run crash was her brother.

A California nurse was working in the emergency room when she learned a patient dying from a hit-and-run crash was her brother.

Jack Cover, who invented the Taser stun gun now used by thousands of police agencies as a better way to subdue suspects, has died at 88.

Master surfboard designer Dale Velzy, who helped popularise surfing along the California coast and at one time was the world’s largest maker of surfboards, has died. He was 77.