Geography of California

For testy patrons of La Lanterna, life's a beach

Seventy-seven-year-old Vinicio complains that his favorite blue plastic chair has been shifted from the spot where he'd left it the day before. Rene fumes when finding his sun lounger stacked and chained up with others at the far corner of the beach, before pinching it back with a bolt cutter in a superhuman effort that leaves him red-faced but gleaming with vindication.

LA bomb threat reported to FBI from foreign officials

A “very specific” threat has been called in from a foreign country against Los Angeles’ Red Line commuter rail system, US police say.
Law enforcement officials alerted the public to the threat at the news conference, saying it had been passed on to the FBI by authorities in another country, where the threat had originated.

Reports on shootings at Virginia, US

Gunshots reported at the Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Virginia, with at least six people wounded and two of them being in critical condition.

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, two of the victims were State troopers and that a third was a female civilian.

The shooter was also shot by police and is arrested.

Death Valley is alive again (pics)

One of the hottest and driest places on earth is again full of life thanks to El Nino phenomenon. The Death Valley is experiencing its biggest explosion of flowers since 2005.

This once-in-a-decade natural phenomenon is dubbed the “super bloom describing the combination of rare yellow, pink, purple and red flowers which cover the desert landscape.

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