The three adorable mountain lion cubs named Fern, Thistle and Spruce were believed to have been orphaned after their mother was killed by a car.

Investigators claim 48-year-old Ponciano “Chano” Tule Bernal tried to find the three teens suspected of taking the scooter from his son — leading to a confrontation that ended with Bernal being shot to death. All of them lived near 11th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, where the shooting took place.

Refunds are now available to more than 100 property owners, with two of them eligible to receive as much as $100,000 each in refunds.

Authorities believe their mother was hit and killed by a vehicle in the Portola Valley area of San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area, zoo officials said. The mountain lion carcass has since vanished, so they can’t confirm her relationship to the cubs through DNA.

Some Oakland residents could be eligible for a refund from a recycling company owned by a family at the crux of an FBI investigation linked to former Mayor Sheng Thao.

David Duong is CEO of California Waste Solutions, which provides residential recycling collection services to Oakland households, and the chairman and co-owner of a housing company formed to develop and manufacture prefabricated modular homes.

Protesters are voicing their opposition to incoming President-election Donald Trump, but in smaller numbers than his first term

Born in Susanville in 1947, Aguilar joined the Marines, fought in the Vietnam War, and worked at the Sacramento Bee as a graphic artist. He studied at photography at a graduate level at both UC Santa Cruz and Davis, as well as at the University of Nevada.

Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, he was arrested for refusing to be incarcerated based on his ethnicity.

In Nevada, the deadliest plane crash was in 1964. A four-engine Constellation operated by California’s Paradise Airlines traveling from Oakland crashed in a mountain near Lake Tahoe after two failed attempts to land at the nearby airport. Here's a look at notable plane crashes in Nevada history:

Three mountain lion cubs hiding under a car were rescued and taken to Oakland Zoo, where they received treatment. The mountain lion presumed to be their mother was found dead less than half a mile away.

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.