Mother Lode Views featured Calaveras County Sheriff Rachelle Whiting. She spoke about her first year in office, goals, and initiatives. She also recapped local crime trends, highlighted findings from ...

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Historically dry conditions have combined with gusty winds to make it harder for crews to get a handle on a wildfire burning ...

There are three executions set to take place in Florida over the next month, including a man convicted of fatally shooting three people and wounding another person, under a death warrant signed ...

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law in St. Lucia that criminalized gay sex in a ruling Tuesday celebrated by activists in the largely conservative region. The court ...

Japan’s meteorological agency has issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from the powerful, magnitude 8.0 quake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The ...

Officials in Massachusetts' Nantucket island on Tuesday accused the developer of the nation's first utility-scale offshore ...

Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Tuesday that they chased a boat for more than 12 hours and discovered 1½ tons of cocaine aboard it. It’s one of the Caribbean country’s biggest seizures in ...

Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers to hot weather in the summertime, but the sweltering heat this week set at ...

A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced up the nose, like ...

In a rare public outburst on the Senate floor Tuesday, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker took his Democratic colleagues to task, declaring his party “needs a wake-up call!” Angrily screaming at two of his ...

The chief of police in a resort town in Maine has called for an investigation into the arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs ...