NEW YORK — Canadian-born actress and supermodel Dayle Haddon has died after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at the Pennsylvania home of her son-in-law, Hallmark movie star Marc Blucas.

Solebury Township Police arrived at the residence in Bucks County on Friday just after 6:30 a.m., according to a police report. They were called to the home ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's always a good idea to bundle up at Mammoth Mountain, but anyone hoping to get in some holiday ski runs may want to consider some additional layers.

A storm forecast to hit this weekend is expected to bring strong winds with gusts of up to 70 mph at the mountain's summit, according to the National Weather Service.

A high-...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump entered the fray in a debate over immigration policy that’s dividing his supporters, telling the New York Post he favors a visa program for highly skilled workers that Elon Musk has strongly defended.

Musk is among tech leaders stoking a social media storm this week over how to bring top talent to the U.S. — ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to step into a raging debate among his supporters over visas for skilled workers on the side of Elon Musk, telling the New York Post he has "always liked the visas."

The comments came as Trump loyalists have been fulminating against each other online for days over the H-1B visas. Immigration ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When the last 150 feet of Santa Cruz’s iconic wharf plummeted into the ocean Monday, city leaders were still grappling with damage it had sustained two years earlier during back-to-back winter storms.

With the construction equipment now at the bottom of the ocean, some local residents are asking why the city waited until ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As a series of winter storms slammed California’s coast with powerful rip currents and towering waves, part of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed on Monday, plunging two contractors and a city employee into the water.

The pier was one of several public wharves and piers in the state actively undergoing structural integrity ...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey shrugged off the sex-abuse accusations filed against him as an “office fling” — as aftershocks from bombshell allegations that he swapped overtime for sex continue to rattle the upper levels of the department, the Daily News has learned.

“That’s all it was. It was ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart after an incident in Russian airspace that led to the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft on Dec. 25, killing dozens.

Putin and Ilham Aliyev discussed details of the doomed flight from Baku to Grozny in a phone call on Saturday, the Kremlin said in a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former Van Nuys physician who recently surrendered his medical license following sexual harassment accusations has agreed to a $15 million federal settlement over allegations that he and fellow defendants submitted false claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal.

The U.S. Department of Justice accused Mohammad Rasekhi, his spouse and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — State attorneys prosecuting the case against the man charged with murder in the deaths of four University of Idaho students have settled on their group of expert witnesses for next summer’s trial in Boise.

Led by Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson, the prosecution met a court-imposed deadline to submit a list of those ...Read more

MIAMI — Family has been integral to the multimillion-dollar business and real estate empire Shlomo and Orly Alexander have built in Miami over the past 40 years.

The family’s holdings include waterfront mansions in Bal Harbour and Miami Beach, a 48-acre ranch outside of Aspen, Colorado, and a security company that holds state and local ...Read more

The future of gas transit through Ukraine is at a turning point. If a last-minute deal isn’t struck by Wednesday, billions of cubic meters in gas flows could come to a halt.

Ukraine is under mounting pressure from Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and a group of central European companies to keep gas moving from its eastern border with Russia...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Space Coast could be seeing another new rocket fly soon as the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued a launch license for Blue Origin’s New Glenn.

An FAA statement said Jeff Bezos’ rocket company had “met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements” for its heavy-lift rocket, which is set ...Read more

During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 yards long, carried 75 tons of armor on their hulls and decks, sported up to 13 guns, and had crews numbering up to 250 men.

The seven city-class ironclads, sometimes called the turtles, were the most ...Read more

Piping plovers are continuing their comeback story.

Massachusetts beaches for the second straight year saw more nesting piping plovers than at any time in the last four decades, according to Mass Audubon and preliminary data from MassWildlife’s Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program.

There were 1,196 nesting pairs counted — a 1.5% ...Read more

Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the U.S. drug market. Her job, as a policy advocate at drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, was to tell patient and physician groups about the PBMs’ role in high drug prices.

Armed with that knowledge, Lewandowski filed a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit in...Read more