When Javier Lopez Montes had not arrived home by 7 p.m. — and did not answer his cellphone — two of his children went looking for him, thinking he was doing a side job. He usually arrived before 5. A ...

Firefighters quickly gained the upper hand on a vegetation fire in Hemet, California, on Thursday,3. The fire, dubbed the Gibbel Fire, was first reported at 4:40 pm Thursday afternoon, and had burned ...