Weary Californians return homes
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Thousands of Californians forced from their neighborhoods by this week's wind-whipped wildfires returned home on Friday, some of them finding their property unscathed amid the destruction and others discovering nothing but blackened rubble.
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About 60 ex-residents of a Japanese island return to homes they fled after a volcanic eruption in 2000.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- They were back on their turf now, back home in the warm embrace of Southern California. Their flight from frigid Boston had no sooner arrived here Friday afternoon, and they had no sooner checked into their hotel, when the Cali Contingent of Boston College's basketball team -- junior Craig Smith of Los Angeles and sophomores Jared Dudley ...
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 30 (Reuters Life!) - Fans of Southern California's classic rock group the Eagles may soon be getting that peaceful, easy feeling all over again.
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While life began returning to normal in parts of Southern California today, more than 20,000 homes are still at risk from several large blazes.
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Many residents resolve to stay in the state - except when hurricanes pass through.
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STANFORD, Calif. - Southern California had another harrowing trip to the Bay area. Thanks to its defense and an unstoppable tailback tandem, this one had a much happier ending.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to his Austrian hometown Sunday for the first time since severing official ties with the city two years ago after a flap over the death penalty.
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The charred remains of six people have been discovered in California as thousands of evacuees start returning home after what have been described as the most devastating wildfires in the state's history.
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The current slump in the housing market has done little to make Californian cities affordable.
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(French Gulch, California-AP) Aug. 17, 2004 - Some residents who fled a wildfire in an old California mining town will be allowed back home Tuesday to survey the scorched ruins.
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RAMONA, California  - Sifting through the ash-covered rubble where her family's home stood one week ago, Nicole Booth combs the scorched remains of a life left behind in the wildfires that blanketed this Southern California town.
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On foot, by bicycle or in motorized rickshaw taxis, the people of this east coast village began returning home Wednesday as Sri Lanka turned its attention from relief efforts to resettling people uprooted by the Asian tsunami.
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Brits are finding a home away from home in RVs.
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People returning home after storms and flooding in eastern Australia find their properties have been looted.
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Six families moved back into their houses Sunday after a pre-dawn chemical plant explosion four days earlier drove them and hundreds of other residents from their homes.
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Thousands of Filipinos have returned to washed-out homes after four deadly storms in two weeks left more than 1,000 people dead or missing.