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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in San Bernardino County has been shooting flames 80 feet high and has become a 28-square-mile monster that's burned a number of homes. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee, including the ski resort town of Wrightwood. Ranchlands 60 miles east of Los Angeles have been devoured.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee police officer is being threatened online by people who say he was the officer that fatally shot a black man last weekend. Police have not released the name of the officer who shot Sylville Smith, but widely shared social media posts and at least one news report identify him as a 24-year-old patrolman. The officer is also black.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official is confirming that the 29-year-old son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been kidnapped by a rising drug cartel. The attorney general in Jalisco state says 29-year-old Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar was among a half-dozen men abducted from a restaurant in the Pacific resort of Puerto Vallarta this week. He says the kidnappers were from the rival Jalisco New Generation cartel.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An Indonesian sailor has escaped the violent Muslim extremist group that abducted him in the southern Philippines after they threatened to behead him. Officials say 16 other foreign hostages, including nine Indonesians, remain captives of Abu Sayyaf (AH'-boo SEYE'-yahf). A regional military spokesman says 28-year-old Mohammad Sayfan escaped in a mangrove area in Sulu province and was rescued Wednesday by local residents who found him floating and trapped in fishnets along the shoreline.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A man convicted of taking hostages at a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 is scheduled to appear in a New Hampshire court Wednesday for a hearing on a bank robbery charge. Fifty-five-year-old parolee Leeland Eisenberg was arrested last month. He spent at least two years behind bars for a five-hour standoff at Clinton's Rochester, New Hampshire campaign office almost nine years ago, during Clinton's first run for president. Eisenberg claimed to have a bomb, but it turned out to be road flares.
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