TORONTO, Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Empire Club of Canada today announced the Toronto Blue Jays as the recipients of the 2025 Nation Builder Award in recognition of the organisation’s ...

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The holidays are going to be a little less merry and a lot more hairy for the Altadena man with a 550-pound bear living under his house. “You don’t really feel like having people over when there’s a ...

Officials are now turning to a new strategy in hopes of luring a 550-pound bear out from underneath a California home. The brown bear has been cooped up under Altadena resident Ken Johnson’s home for ...

A Southern California homeowner got the ultimate surprise tenant: a 500-pound bear that had turned the crawl space under his house into its personal den. Ken Johnson, the homeowner in Altadena, first ...

Ken Johnson has tried noisy tactics to encourage the 550-pound houseguest in his crawl space to leave. He is not sure it’s working. By Christine Hauser In June, Ken J. Johnson discovered the underside ...

An Altadena homeowner who has already been living with an unwanted guest for a week, after a large bear took up residence in the crawlspace underneath his home, now says that a second bear has tried ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

New York-based distributor Dekanalog has acquired Gabriel Mascaro’s “The Blue Trail,” which will headline the distributor’s spring 2026 theatrical slate. The Brazilian sci-fi drama follows 77-year-old ...

ANNISTON — A residential fire that broke out Tuesday evening in the Blue Mountain area of Anniston has been extinguished, with no injuries reported, according to a series of updates from the Anniston ...