SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Authorities said five people on board a small plane were killed but that nobody on the ground was hurt when the twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed in a Southern California parking lot.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Arlene Salac said the pilot of the plane declared an emergency Sunday before crashing about a mile from Orange County's John Wayne Airport.
Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said the Cessna was heading to the airport when it went down and struck an empty parked car in the lot of a Staples store and a CVS pharmacy. He said there was no fire and that nobody on the ground was hurt.
Photos from the scene showed the plane upright but on its belly. Several streets surrounding a nearby shopping center and the South Coast Plaza mall were closed.
The plane is registered to the San Francisco-based real estate company Category III, according to an FAA database. A phone call to the company was not immediately returned Sunday.
Lawmen find 11 N.M. kids living in filth
TAOS, N.M. -- A message that people were starving, believed to have come from someone inside a makeshift compound in rural northern New Mexico, led to the discovery of 11 children living in filthy conditions.
Taos County sheriff's officials said Saturday that the children ranging in age from 1 to 15 were removed from the compound in the small community of Amalia -- 145 miles northeast of Albuquerque in an isolated high-desert area near the Colorado border. They were then turned over to state child-welfare workers.
Two men were arrested during the search. Siraj Wahhaj was detained on an outstanding warrant in Georgia alleging child abduction. Lucas Morten was jailed on suspicion of harboring a fugitive, Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said.
It was not immediately clear Sunday if either had retained an attorney.
Hogrefe said FBI agents had surveilled the area a few weeks ago but didn't find probable cause to search the property.
That changed when Georgia detectives forwarded a message to Hogrefe's office that initially had been sent to a third party, saying: "We are starving and need food and water."
The sheriff said there was reason to believe the message came from someone inside the compound.
Other than a few potatoes and a box of rice, there was little food in the compound, which Hogrefe said consisted of a small travel trailer buried in the ground and covered by plastic with no water, plumbing or electricity.
Police actions at Oregon rally slammed
SALEM, Ore. -- Portland police were accused Sunday of being heavy-handed against people protesting a rally by extreme-right demonstrators, reportedly injuring some counterprotesters and prompting the city's new police chief to order a review of officers' use of force.
Police "targeted Portland residents peacefully counterprotesting against racist far-right groups, including white supremacists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazi gangs," the Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America said in a statement. It called on officials to investigate.
Police Chief Danielle Outlaw, who assumed command less than a year ago as Portland's first black female police chief, said in a statement that she takes all use-of-force cases seriously.
Outlaw directed the professional standards division to begin gathering evidence to determine if the force used was within policy and training guidelines. The Office of Independent Police Review will be provided with the information for review and investigation.
Texas gun step's chances seen as slim
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas schools have been adding metal detectors and armed personnel in an effort to improve campus security in response to the deadly May attack at a Houston-area high school that left eight students and two teachers dead.
Among the steps that Texas apparently won't be taking anytime soon is tightening restrictions on gun access for people deemed dangerous to themselves or others.
After the May 18 attack at Santa Fe High School, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that Texas should look for ways to keep guns away from people who pose "an immediate danger to others," which is the point of so-called red flag laws like those passed by six states since the February massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
But faced with criticism from gun enthusiasts in the country's largest conservative state, Abbott later clarified that he was only suggesting such laws be part of a broader conversation about school security and that he thinks there's growing opposition to the idea of gun restrictions.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who presides over the Texas Senate, was even more forceful.
"I have never supported these policies, nor has the majority of the Texas Senate," he said minutes after the last in a series of state Senate hearings on gun violence.
A Section on 08/06/2018