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SAN FRANCISCO – Officials say a San Francisco rail station filled with smoke due to sparking from a track insulator. No injuries or damage were reported. Bay Area Rapid Transit spokeswoman Alica Trost says smoke was reported on the platform of the Powell Street station about 8:45 a.m. Friday. Trost …

TOLEDO, Ohio – A 450-year-old German artifact that was used to tell time and to make astronomical calculations will be returned to a German museum from which it was likely stolen, according to the Toledo Museum of Art. The device, called an astronomical compendium or astrolabe, disappeared from the Gotha …

LOS ANGELES – A mountain lion that’s a local celebrity has moved in under a Los Angeles home but authorities hope to dislodge him. Jason Archinaco, who owns a home in the hilly Los Feliz area, says workers installing a home security system encountered the cougar around noon Monday. Archinaco …