SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state’s wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board voted 9-1 to approve the standards, which are expected to create a new market for alternative fuels and could …

An insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews apparently uploaded videos of other unsuspecting nude women to the Internet, a federal prosecutor said Monday. Michael D. Barrett, 47, was ordered released on $4,500 bond but was ordered to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet, to …

NEW YORK – Raymond Castro was a regular at The Stonewall Inn in 1969, finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be arrested for kissing or holding hands in public. Inside the bar, where plywood covered the windows, warning lights served as a signal …

September 11, 2001 –the sunniest day that felt as long as a year of darkness. A few days later as I gave a eulogy for my friend the fire chaplain, Father Mychal Judge. I looked down at the first pew and I saw former President Bill Clinton wiping away tears. …

The great thing about a-holes is you can see them coming. Whether it’s Sean Penn or Janeane Garofalo calling you a racist or wishing you dead, their essential douchebaggery makes them easy to spot and therefore harmless. I wish I could say that about nice people. See, nice people are …

JERUSALEM – As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numbers tattooed on their arms. Sholowicz was B-14594; Sieradzki was B-14595. The two Polish Jews had never met, they never spoke and they were quickly separated. Each survived the …

NAPLES, Fla. – A massive wildfire in the Florida Everglades has burned nearly 30,000 acres of a national preserve, but the major roadway known as Alligator Alley will stay open unless smoky conditions worsen. The Florida Highway Patrol said the road connecting the state’s East and West coasts and Broward …

ATLANTA – An Ohio man on an international Delta Air Lines flight has been charged with assault after being accused of pulling a flight attendant’s arm as he made his way to the restroom. Joao Correa, 43, of Concord, Ohio, says a beverage cart blocked his path to the restroom …

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. – A wind-whipped blaze that destroyed more than 50 homes in this Oklahoma City suburb was intentionally set, fire officials said Friday. An area near a wrecker service where the fire started Thursday is frequented by teenagers from a nearby high school and investigators were looking into …

MIAMI – Ecuador’s government demanded on Monday the return of a man on Florida’s death row for killing four people and said he should have never been taken from the South American country, calling it a “kidnapping.” Ecuadorean officials have decried the treatment of former businessman and dual U.S. and …