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Firefighters make progress battling destructive Southern California wildfire; 26 homes burned
• BANNING, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters made steady progress Saturday in battling Southern California's latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains.
• The so-called Silver Fire, which charred 30 square miles in three days, was 70 percent surrounded. The fire stopped advancing Saturday as firefighters focused on extinguishing hot spots.
• Full containment was expected Sunday evening.
• The blaze injured 10 firefighters and seriously burned a mountain biker who was overrun by the fast-moving flames when the fire erupted Wednesday.
• At its peak, the fire forced the evacuation of 1,800 people, including 800 campers. Evacuation orders for several communities remained in effect.
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Eydie Gorme, singer of classic popular songs and Latin tunes, dies in Las Vegas at 84
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and as a team with her husband, Steve Lawrence, has died. She was 84.
• Gorme, who also had a huge solo hit in 1963 with "Blame it on the Bossa Nova," died Saturday at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas following a brief, undisclosed illness, said her publicist, Howard Bragman.
• Gorme was a successful band singer and nightclub entertainer when she was invited to join the cast of Steve Allen's local New York television show in 1953.
• She sang solos and also did duets and comedy skits with Lawrence, a rising young singer who had joined the show a year earlier. When the program became NBC's "Tonight Show" in 1954, the young couple went with it.
• They married in Las Vegas in 1957 and later performed for audiences there. Lawrence, the couple's son David and other loved ones were by her side when she died, Bragman said.
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