Southern California firefighters make progress against wildfire

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — Southern California firefighters have made progress against a wildfire that has destroyed 132 structures, mostly homes. The flames were fanned by fierce wind gusts that began easing Friday, allowing some people to return to sort through the charred remains of their homes. The Mountain Fire started Wednesday morning in Ventura County and had grown to 32 square miles. It was 7% contained Friday morning. At least 88 additional structures have been damaged. Some 10,000 people remained under evacuation orders Friday morning. The fire continues to threaten about 3,500 structures in suburban neighborhoods, ranches and agricultural areas around Camarillo in Ventura County. The cause of the fire has not been determined.

3 dead after shooting in Pennsylvania apartment and 40-mile police chase

DUNCANNON, Pa. (AP) — Three people were killed and two others wounded when a suspect opened fire in an apartment, then led police on a high-speed chase through two Pennsylvania counties before an exchange of gunfire with state troopers. Lt. Col. George Bivens of Pennsylvania State Police said Friday that troopers shot and killed 22-year-old Ricky Shannon after he opened fire on them from his pickup truck. Inside the truck, troopers found a 19-year-old woman who had also been fatally shot. Earlier, Bivens says, Shannon had gone to the woman’s house in Lancaster County and shot four of the woman’s family members, killing one.

Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has unsealed criminal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week’s presidential election. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed a contact this past September to put together a plan to surveil and ultimately kill Trump. The plot reflects what federal officials have described as ongoing efforts by Iran to target U.S. government officials, including Trump, on U.S. soil. The charges were unsealed Friday, just days after Trump’s defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris.

2 men accused of plotting to shoot at immigrants are convicted

(AP) — Two men have been convicted of attempting to murder federal agents ahead of a planned trip to the Texas-Mexico border to shoot at immigrants illegally crossing there and any federal agents who might try to stop them. Western Missouri’s top federal prosecutor said Friday that a jury in federal court in Jefferson City, Missouri, found 34-year-old Jonathan O’Dell of Warshaw, Missouri, and 39-year-old Bryan C. Perry of Clarksville, Tennessee, guilty of more than 30 felony counts each.