Disney has submitted plans to build a sprawling soundstage and production complex outside Los Angeles in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Prosecutors in California are to review evidence before deciding whether to charge a 12-year-old boy whose play with matches started a blaze that ripped through nearly 60 square miles and destroyed 21 homes.

A Los Angeles commuter train smashed into a truck at a level crossing, today, overturning two carriages and killing a person in the truck, which burst into flames.