A 1,200-acre wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County has forced officials to postpone the launch of a commercial satellite, authorities said. The Atlas V rocket was scheduled to take off Sunday and carry the WorldView-4, a commercial satellite that snaps high-resolution images of Earth, according to United Launch Alliance, the contractor hired to launch the satellite. But a wildfire broke out Saturday in a remote canyon at the southern end of the military base and quickly spread to nearly two square miles, according to Wayne Seda, the assistant chief of the Vandenberg Fire Department. "It's burning in some very tough vegetation," Seda told reporters Sunday. It jumped roads at times and came out of the containment lines."

Trouble marred the Kaaboo music festival in Del Mar on Saturday night as concertgoers tried to force their way into an at-capacity venue, officials said. Sheriff's Lt. Mark Moreno said attendees became unruly just after 11 p.m. when they were told that Encore, the venue where rapper Ludacris and DJ Steve Aoki were set to perform, was full. Several individuals got into an altercation with deputies manning the entrance, Moreno said. One deputy used pepper spray to help disperse the crowd. Officials in a sheriff's helicopter, flying over the location, ordered attendees to clear the area.

A breakthrough will allow machines to learn by observing. This Turing Learning, as its inventors have named it, promises smarter drones that could detect militants engaging in behavior that could endanger troops, like planting roadside bombs. Still in its infancy, the new machine learning technique is named for British mathematician Alan Turing, whose famous test challenges artificial intelligences to fool a human into thinking he or she is conversing with another human. In Turing learning, a program dubbed the "classifier" tries to learn about a system designed to fool it. In certain ways, Turing Learning resembles many existing machine-learning systems.

States across the Southeast are experiencing sharp jumps in gas prices after a major gasoline pipeline ruptured in central Alabama, spilling as many as 336,000 gallons of fuel upstream from a national wildlife refuge. But thanks to a few strokes of luck, the environmental damage is minimal. The pipeline breached near an old coal mine pit, and much of the fuel flowed into a water retention pond. With local streams dry -- much of central Alabama is suffering from moderate to severe drought -- the gasoline did not find its way down into the Cahaba River, home to 64 rare and endangered plant and animal species, including the Cahaba lily. "We really did bypass the bullet," said Myra Crawford, executive director at Cahaba Riverkeeper, which has been monitoring the area by canoe and foot."It

A large flame of burning gas erupted over a refinery in Torrance on Sunday, prompting authorities to close a stretch of Del Amo Boulevard for about two hours. Torrance firefighters were dispatched to the former Exxon Mobil refinery at 7:12 a.m., Captain Bob Millea said. A power outage in the northern part of the city had caused issues for some of the units at the plant, Millea said, prompting what he called an "unplanned flaring event." To stabilize its systems, the plant sent hydrocarbon products to the flare, causing a large flame to burst over the plant's metal smoke stacks -- similar to the way a giant lighter might function, Millea said. Fire officials shut down Del Amo Boulevard between Maple Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in both directions until systems were declared stable at about 9:20 a.m., Millea said.

In the deadliest attack against Indian forces in more than a decade, militants sneaked into an army encampment in the disputed territory of Kashmir early Sunday and opened fire on sleeping soldiers, killing at least 17 and wounding dozens. The four assailants, who also threw grenades that caused tents and temporary shelters to catch fire at the army brigade headquarters at Uri, were killed in a gun battle with security forces that lasted six hours, authorities said. Indian officials blamed the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed for the attack, saying it had recovered weapons from the assailants that carried Pakistani markings. Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, the director of military operations, said he contacted his Pakistani counterpart to convey "serious concerns." Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh was more pointed, saying on Twitter: "Pakistan is a terrorist state, and it should be identified and isolated as such."

An explosion that injured 29 people in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood was an "intentional act," but there so far are no concrete links to international terrorist groups, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. Speaking to reporters at the scene, Cuomo said that investigators had found no links to international terrorist groups, but added that "a bomb exploding in New York is obviously an act of terrorism." He said the state planned to deploy 1,000 state police and National Guard officers to patrol the city's train stations and public areas ahead of New Yorkers returning to work on Monday. The increased security, the governor said, was to "err on the side of caution. We want New Yorkers to be confident that New York is up and running and we're doing everything we can" to keep them safe.

Each fall, groggy teenagers resign themselves to another year of fighting their body clocks so they can get to class on time. It's well known that teens who don't get at least eight hours of sleep a night face a slew of problems. That's why both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control recommend shifting middle- and high-school start times to 8:30 a.m. or later. Yet during the 2011-12 school year -- the most recent statistics available -- only 17.7 % of the nation's public middle, high and combined schools met the 8:30 a.m. In California, the average start time was 8:07 a.m.

At least eight people were taken to a hospital with injuries after a stabbing attack at a Minnesota shopping mall on Saturday evening, which ended with the suspected assailant dead inside the mall. Seven of the eight people brought to St. Cloud Hospital had injuries that were not life-threatening, hospital spokesman Chris Nelson told the St. Cloud Times. No further details were released. Jason Burke said the Crossroads Center mall remains locked down. "The individual we believe to be responsible for the victims' stab wounds is currently deceased inside the mall," Burke said in a statement.

"In the time of your life, live -- so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it." "We wanted something that was uplifting and also spoke to a much broader audience," said photographer Levon Parian, one of a team who created the monument. The five-ton piece was sculpted by Glendale architect Vahagn Thomasian from volcanic rock quarried from Armenia's Ararat Valley. The split in the monument represents the disruption of the 1915-18 genocide, which claimed the lives of about 1.2 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, which became the modern republic of Turkey. The Turkish government disputes that a genocide took place.