Home and Garden

Two-Alarm Fire Damages Home; Sparks Grass Fire (KTVU 2 San Francisco)

26 Jul 2008

Contra Costa firefighters and neighbors armed with garden hoses battled an early Friday morning two-alarm fire that damaged a Walnut Creek home and sparked a 1-acre grass fire that threatened others.

'Sound of Music' daughter returns to Austria at 93 to visit her former home, now a hotel (Los Angeles Times)

26 Jul 2008

Seventy years after fleeing the Nazis, a woman whose family was immortalized in "The Sound of Music" has returned to Austria to visit her former home.

Garden memorializes four kids killed in Ohio fire (FOX 19 Cincinnati)

25 Jul 2008

MASON, Ohio (AP) - A garden near a playground will memorialize four young children who died after their father set their southwest Ohio home on fire and fatally stabbed their mother.