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Cooler temperatures are moving into Southern California, giving firefighters a break in battling a wildfire that crawle
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When life hands you landslides, make your own private toll road detour. Haven ;t you heard the saying Since February, a landslide has closed the A431 highway between Bristol and Bath in England,
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