| Woman who founded trans beauty pageants becomes first known trans person killed in America this year Posted: 10 Jan 2018 11:35 AM PST  A transgender woman and LGBT-rights advocate has been killed in what was reportedly the first murder of a transgender person this year. Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, a trans beauty pageant organiser, was stabbed to death by her husband in their Massachusetts home, local police said. Mr Steele-Knudslien turned himself in to police on Friday night, telling them he had "snapped" after an argument with his wife and done "something very bad," according to a police report.
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| The Latest: 1 killed by rockslide in Northern California Posted: 10 Jan 2018 10:38 AM PST  MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on deadly debris flows that hit the Southern California community of Montecito (all times local):
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| Teenager pulled alive from the rubble, as death toll from Southern California mudslides rises to 15 Posted: 10 Jan 2018 08:03 AM PST  The number of people killed by mudslides in California has risen to 15, but there was a glimmer of hope among the tragedy on Wednesday after a teenage girl was pulled from the debris alive in a dramatic rescue. Firefighters were able to free 14-year-old Lauren Cantin from the ruins of her Montecito home after six hours chopping away rubble using the jaws of life and other tools. She was found alive after firefighters with rescue dogs heard her cries for help. "I thought I was dead there for a minute," Ms Cantin, covered in mud, said after workers spent six hours rescuing her. She was able to stand up and walk with assistance, NBC News reported. "To be able to have her come out safely and as unscathed as she was, it was pretty phenomenal," Andy Rupp, a Montecito Fire Protection District firefighter, told NBC News. Rescue efforts are expected to become easier on Wednesday after the powerful rain storm heads west and skies clear, authorities said. Deadly California mudslides, in pictures Rescue personnel in Santa Barbara County early on Wednesday morning continued searching for victims where mudslides slammed into homes, covered highways and swept away vehicles early on Tuesday when more than a half-inch (1.5 cm) of rain fell in five minutes, a rate that far exceeds the normal flash flood threshold. "While we hope it will not, we expect this number to increase as we continue to look for people who are missing and unaccounted for," Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown of the death toll during a news conference on Tuesday. The upscale communities of Montecito and Carpenteria, just outside the city of Santa Barbara, were hardest hit. Montecito is a wealthy enclave of about 9,000 people northwest of Los Angeles that is home to such celebrities as Oprah Winfrey, Rob Lowe and Ellen DeGeneres. Californian Firefighters successfully rescued an unnamed 14-year-old girl Credit: MIKE ELIASON/AFP Over the past month California's scenic coastline was ravaged by a series of intense wildfires that burned off vegetation. On Tuesday, emergency workers using search dogs and helicopters to rescue dozens of people stranded in mud-coated rubble in the normally pristine area, sandwiched between the ocean and the sprawling Los Padres National Forest, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles. About 300 people were stranded in a canyon. Local rescue crews, using borrowed helicopters from the U.S. Coast Guard, worked to airlift them out, officials said. Areas under evacuation order Heavy downpours struck before dawn on Tuesday after 7,000 residents in Santa Barbara County were ordered to evacuate and another 23,000 were urged to do so voluntarily, some of them for a second time since December. The county set up an evacuation shelter at Santa Barbara City College, where some people showed up drenched in mud, and also provided a place for people to take their animals. But only 10 to 15 percent complied with mandatory orders, said Amber Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. The number of fatalities surpassed the death toll from a California mudslide on Jan. 10, 2005, when 10 people were killed as a hillside gave way in the town of La Conchita, less than 20 miles south of the latest disaster. Boulders block a road after being moved by the mudslide Credit: Reuters Last month's wildfires, the largest in California history, left the area vulnerable to mudslides. The fires burned away grass and shrubs that hold the soil in place and also baked a waxy layer into the earth that prevents water from sinking deeply into the ground. Some local residents had to flee their homes due to the fires last month and again this week because of the rains. 'I came around the house and heard a deep rumbling' The torrent of mud swept away cars and destroyed several homes, reducing them to piles of rubble. Photos posted on social media showed waist-deep mud in living rooms. Some residents were unaccounted for in neighborhoods hard to reach because of downed trees and power lines, Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Dave Zaniboni said. My beautiful home town, just after getting through weeks of wild fire, has been hit by a major storm. That "river" is the 101 freeway. �� Please keep the families of Santa Barbara in your thoughts and prayers, �� pic.twitter.com/Yj7C9sRR4n— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) January 9, 2018 "I came around the house and heard a deep rumbling, an ominous sound I knew was ... boulders moving as the mud was rising," said Thomas Tighe, who discovered two of his cars missing from the driveway. "I saw two other vehicles moving slowly sideways down the middle of the street in a river of mud." Marshall Miller, who evacuated his home in Montecito on Monday with his family, returned to check for damage and found his neighborhood devastated. He never reached his home because two of his neighbors, an elderly woman and her adult daughter, needed a lift to the hospital after being rescued by firefighters. A search dog looks for victims in damaged homes Credit: Reuters The pair had left their house before it was inundated with 6 feet (1.8 meters) of mud, but they got trapped outside in the deep muck. "It was sobering," Miller said. "I saw them covered in mud and shaking from the cold." The path of the deluge was graphically illustrated on the side of a white colonial-style house, where a dark gray stain created a wavy pattern halfway up the front windows. "All hell broke loose" The worst of the rainfall occurred in a 15-minute span starting at 3:30 a.m. (PST) Montecito got more than a half-inch in five minutes, while Carpinteria received nearly an inch in 15 minutes. "All hell broke loose," said Peter Hartmann, a dentist who moonlights as a news photographer for the local website Noozhawk. Emergency personnel evacuate local residents and their dogs Credit: Reuters "There were gas mains that had popped, where you could hear the hissing," he said. "Power lines were down, high-voltage power lines, the large aluminum poles to hold those were snapped in half. Water was flowing out of water mains and sheared-off fire hydrants." Hartmann watched rescuers revive a toddler pulled unresponsive from the muck. "It was a freaky moment to see her just covered in mud," he said. "It was scary." Hartmann said he found a father-son tennis trophy awarded in 1991 to men his wife knows. "Both of them were caught in the flood. Son's in the hospital, dad hasn't been found yet," he said, declining to name them.
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| Michael Cohen, Trump's Personal Attorney, Sues BuzzFeed Over Explosive Dossier Posted: 10 Jan 2018 06:27 AM PST  Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, said he filed a pair of defamation lawsuits against BuzzFeed and political intelligence firm Fusion GPS on Tuesday.
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| Israel to approve hundreds of new settler homes in West Bank Posted: 10 Jan 2018 05:12 AM PST ![Israel to approve hundreds of new settler homes in West Bank]( "Israel to approve hundreds of new settler homes in West Bank") Israel will approve construction of hundreds of new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday. Settlements are one of the most heated issues in efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, frozen since 2014. Palestinians want the West Bank for a future state, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
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| What's The Deal With Depression Naps? Posted: 10 Jan 2018 03:11 AM PST  Spend some time scrolling through your social media feed and you're likely to come across the term "depression nap."
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| South Korea's Moon says Trump deserves 'big' credit for North Korea talks Posted: 10 Jan 2018 01:59 AM PST ![South Korea's Moon says Trump deserves 'big' credit for North Korea talks]( "South Korea's Moon says Trump deserves 'big' credit for North Korea talks") By Christine Kim and Soyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for helping to spark the first inter-Korean talks in more than two years, and warned that Pyongyang would face stronger sanctions if provocations continued. The talks were held on Tuesday on the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone, which has divided the two Koreas since 1953, after a prolonged period of tension on the Korean peninsula over the North's missile and nuclear programs. North Korea ramped up its missile launches last year and also conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, resulting in some of the strongest international sanctions yet.
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| Strong quake in Caribbean Sea shakes Honduras, Mexico and Belize, no tsunami Posted: 09 Jan 2018 10:53 PM PST  By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 that struck near remote islands belonging to Honduras on Tuesday was felt across northern Central America but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage. Rodrigo Anaya Rodriguez was in a hammock inside his house near the popular tourist site of Bacalar Lake near Mexico's Caribbean coast when he felt three tremors. In Honduras, firefighters said some residents in southern neighborhoods fled their homes after feeling the shaking.
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| Roseanne Barr: Her TV character's a Trump fan, as should be Posted: 09 Jan 2018 09:20 PM PST  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Roseanne Barr said her character's support for President Donald Trump in the revived sitcom "Roseanne" is a reflection of her own views and also true to the show's roots.
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| Miss Trans America Founder Is The First Known Transgender Person Killed This Year Posted: 09 Jan 2018 08:05 PM PST  The founder of the Miss Trans America pageant is believed to be 2018′s first known victim of deadly violence against the transgender community.
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