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The mother of Syed Rizwan Farook has denied in a court document that she had any knowledge and did not participate in the San Beardino Dec. 2 terrorist attack by Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik that killed 14 people and wounded 22. Neither Rafia Farook nor her daughter Saira Khan took took part “in any way with the tragic attack,” the court document said. The statement was included in a claim of interest filed Wednesday in federal court for the $280,756.17 in life insurance benefits left behind by Syed Farook, who died with Malik in a shootout with law enforcement a few hours after the deadly, Islamic State-inspired attack. The disputed money has not been paid out. It is in the custody of th...

Two babies in Califoia are the first in the state to be bo with Zika-related microcephaly, a birth defect that scientists recently linked to the mosquito-boe virus, state health officials aounced Thursday. The two women who gave birth to the infants were infected by the Zika virus during pregnancy after spending time in a country where the virus is endemic, said Dr. Karen Smith, state director for the Califoia Department of Public Health. One woman has retued to her homeland, Smith said. Microcephaly is a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected, compared with babies of the same sex and age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Babies with microce...

Two babies have been bo in Califoia with microcephaly, a birth defect related to the Zika virus, state health officials aounced Thursday. The two women who gave birth to the infants were infected by the Zika virus infections during pregnancy after spending time in a country where the virus is endemic, said Dr. Karen Smith, state director for the Califoia Department of Public Health. Microcephaly is a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected, compared to babies of the same sex and age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Babies with microcephaly often develop smaller brains. • RELATED STORY: Califoia gets ‘critical’ funds to track babies bo with d...

[email protected] @SAbramLA on Twitter Two babies have been bo in Califoia with microcephaly, a birth defect directly related to the Zika virus, state health officials aounced Thursday. The two women who gave birth to the infants were infected by the Zika virus infections during pregnancy after spending time in a country where the virus is endemic, said Dr. Karen Smith, state director for the Califoia Department of Public Health. Microcephaly is a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected, compared to babies of the same sex and age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Babies with microcephaly often develop smaller brains. Both infants were bo this y...

Califoia will receive $3.6u2009million over five years from the federal govement to track babies bo in the Goldenu2009State with microcephaly, a birth defect caused by the Zikau2009virus. The money — the first installment of which comes this week — is part of $16u2009million awarded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to states most at risk from the mosquito boe virus. A map released by the CDC earlier this year shows that the mosquito that carries Zika is already present in more than half the nation. More than 430u2009people have tested positive for the virus in the United States, though almost all of them contracted Zika after traveling abroad in Latinu2009American an...

A few months ago, Sam Mikulak joined his USA Gymnastics teammates for a pre-Olympic training camp in Rio de Janeiro. At one point during their stay, Team USA members toured the Rio Olympic Arena in the main Olympic Park, a short walk from the Atlantic Ocean. “When we walked in there I definitely got a chill down my spine,” said Mikulak, the four-time U.S. all-around champion. “You felt like some ghost walked right through you. It was like, ‘Wow, this is where I want to change my life.’” It should come as no surprise that Mikulak retus to Rio for the Olympic Games convinced he is destiny’s child. “The competition of a lifetime,” he said. “This will definitely be the best shape I’ll ever be i...

A Long Beach man arranged for the killing of his pregnant girlfriend in Hawthoe nearly 15 years ago because he didn’t want their baby, a prosecutor told jurors as his trial opened Monday. Derek Paul Smyer, 35, shook his head throughout Deputy District Attoey Danette Meyers’ opening statement in Los Angeles Superior Court, as she described how he begged 27-year-old Crystal Taylor to get an abortion and solicited a gang member to kill her when she was about 20 weeks pregnant. Taylor was shot in the head on Sept. 25, 2001, while coming down the stairs outside her apartment in the 12700 block of Koblum Avenue. “How unfortunate it was that Crystal Taylor got pregnant by a man like Derek Smyer,’’...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Califoia is accusing the federal govement of failing to ensure veterans are granted citizenship after serving in the military. ACLU tracked 84 foreign-bo veterans who’d been deported or are facing deportation because he or she committed crimes that sparked their expulsion. Those veterans should have been considered for citizenship, which would have allowed them to stay in the country after their release from prison or jail, according to the ACLU. In some cases, the U.S. govement lost, misplaced or failed to file the applications of veterans who applied for naturalization, the ACLU’s 60-page report found. Many veterans mistakenly believed they became U.S...