A man died in a fatal crash on Upriver Drive near the Boulder Beach swimming area sometime Saturday morning.

LONG BEACH, Calif. – At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage spewed from a 90-year-old pipe that burst in an industrial area near downtown Los Angeles, leading beaches to close 20 miles downriver in Long Beach, officials said Tuesday. The top of the 60-inch underground sewer pipe collapsed Monday afternoon, causing a blockage and forcing it to overflow and belch a stinky sludge onto streets and into drains that flow into the concrete-bottomed Los Angeles River.

In a case that a veteran Palm Beach County judge called among the most bizarre he’s ever seen, a 24-year-old man has been sentence to a year of probation for tossing a live, 4-foot alligator through a Wendy’s drive-thru window.

Officials said an 11-year-old girl and a 57-year-old woman were taken to hospitals after they were bitten by sharks at separate locations in Florida.

Nudists have lost a seven-year legal battle for access to a popular tourist resort beach on Spain’s southwestern tip.

A Texas pipeline company that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil on the California coast last year was indicted on dozens of criminal charges in the disaster that closed popular beaches and killed sea lions and birds, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Dejounte Murray’s account of Lorenzo Romar’s halftime speech could have applied to any number of power-conference teams playing a first-round game in the National Invitation Tournament, which is a little like college basketball’s version of purgatory.

Top 25: Ohio State remained No. 1 in the Associated Press college football Top 25 and tied a poll record, despite lagging support from the voters. Meanwhile, No. 2 TCU and No. 3 Baylor edged forward, No. 4 Michigan State slipped, and No. 5 Utah and No. 6 Clemson took big jumps.