LOS ANGELES (AP) – Prosecutors charged Mel Gibson on Friday with misdemeanor battery stemming from a fight with his then-girlfriend at the actor’s Malibu home. Gibson, 55, was charged after months of investigation by sheriff’s detectives involving the January 2010 dispute between the actor and Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva. The Academy Award winner was scheduled [...]
HONOLULU (AP) – Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and brushed the U.S. western coast Friday but didn’t immediately cause major damage after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific. Kauai was the first of the Hawaiian islands struck by the tsunami, which was caused by an earthquake in Japan. Water rushed ashore at least [...]
TOKYO (AP) — A ferocious tsunami unleashed by Japan’s biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires that burned out of control. Hours later, the waves washed ashore the U.S. West Coast, where evacuations were ordered from California [...]