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The flames chewing at vegetation in the San Beardino Mountains have grown to cover 6,963 acres as of Tuesday moing, and firefighters say they still have the blaze about 6 percent contained. Nobody has been injured, and no structures have been lost in the Pilot fire, said San Beardino County Fire Battalion Chief Marc Peebles. The number of firefighters at the blaze has also grown from 843 Monday night to 934, Peebles said. • Photos: Fight against Pilot fire continues on Day 2 as acreage grows • Photos: ...

While the U.S. men’s 4x100 relay team made headlines Sunday with its gold medal performance, Valencia’s Anthony Ervin was also key part of the story and one of the Rio Olympics’ unlikeliest gold medal wiers. Ervin helped the men’s team advance from the prelims Saturday, but didn’t swim the finals and wasn’t on the podium Sunday. Nonetheless, he received a gold, along with finals swimmers Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian. It was Phelps’ 19th gold medal and 23rd altogether, but Ervin’s story is as extraordinary. This spring, Ervin answered questions from Southe Califoia News Group columnist Tom Hoffarth about his...

LOS ANGELES >> Temperatures hit 110 at Glendale by noon today, as a pressure cooker of high pressure sat clamped above the southweste United States and made coastal June Gloom a fond memory. Red Flag Waings were posted today for the entire county. Fire weather - - hot, dry air, strong winds and low humidity -- was clamped over Southe Califoia by a huge high pressure system over the Four coers region, and would produce dangerously hot conditions today and Monday in all areas across the basin, according to the National Weather Service. Woodland Hills hit 106 at 1 p.m., it was 105 at Fullerton, Corona, Riverside and Van Nuys. Coastal areas did not escape the moing’s blast fuace. At noon,...

Last month, state water officials eased conservation mandates in response to slightly above-average winter rain and snow in much of Califoia, leading many to speculate that the state’s long-ruing drought has tapered off. If only. The El Niño winter that forecasters said could drench the state with rain and snow veered north instead, striking mostly the Pacific Northwest. The amount of rain and snow that hit Northe Califoia was a tick above average and looked impressive mostly because it contrasted sharply with the extreme drought of the previous four years. Southe Califoia was wetter than in previous years, but not by much. Now, conditions are shifting, and El Niño’s counterpart, La Niña – a...