Blast in Dubai fireworks factory kills 2 (AP)

Even as winds calm, more Californians flee fires (AP)
AP - More residents of Southern California were urged to leave their homes Sunday despite calming winds that allowed a major aerial attack on...

As some flee fires anew, others return for a time (AP)
AP - Firefighters pushed back a blaze threatening this small coastal community just enough to allow hundreds of people to check on their homes...

Calif. firefighters wrestle with hundreds of blazes (AP)
AP - Lightning sparked as many as 400 fires that burned around Northern California on Sunday, as officials farther south were close to containing a...

State fires 2 for looking at Obama file (AP)
AP - Two contract employees for the State Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic Sen. Barack...

Ecoterror link eyed in Wash. fires (AP)
AP - Fires gutted three multimillion-dollar model homes in a Seattle suburb on Monday, and authorities found a sign purportedly left by...