Fires spare Reagan library but menace homes near Los Angeles
By BRIAN MELLEY and MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ, Associated Press SIMI VALLEY, California (AP) — A wind-whipped outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles on Wednesday threatened thousands of homes and horse ranches, forced the smoky evacuation of elderly patients in wheelchairs and narrowly bypassed the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, protected in part by a buffer zone chewed by goats. With California