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Since announcing several weeks ago that he is considering running for governor, Abel Maldonado has raised a tiny sum of money, established a Facebook page and started mocking incumbent Gov. Jerry Brown online. State Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, left, shares a light moment with Sen. Lou Correa, D-Anaheim, before his confirmation hearing at the Capitol […]

California newspapers have a legal right to publish the names of children who are subjected to abuse if a name is newsworthy, a Sacramento appellate court ruled Friday. […]

Authorities continued their search for clues into the killing of 8-year-old Leila Fowler, nearly two weeks after she was found stabbed to death in her home. Teacher Cecilia Richardson helps a student tie a ribbon on a fence at Jenny Lind Elementary School in Valley Springs. Eight-year-old Leila Fowler, who was found slain April 27, attended the school. Leila […]

Calaveras County officials announced tonight that they have arrested the brother of 8-year-old Leila Fowler in connection with the third-grader's stabbing death April 27. Leila Fowler In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013, photo, the family of slain 8-year-old Leila Fowler attend a vigil held for her at Jenny Lind Elementary School in Valley Springs, Calif. L […]

The brother of 8-year-old Leila Fowler, the Calaveras County girl stabbed to death last month, has been arrested for investigation of homicide, the sheriff announced Saturday night. A Calaveras County deputy questions a motorist April 28 near Valley Springs. Leila Fowler was killed April 27. Leila Fowler was killed in her home on April 27. […]

Attorneys for J.C. Eaglesmith and the Plumas Unified School District are completing the terms of a settlement agreement in a federal racial discrimination lawsuit, canceling the need for a jury trial scheduled Monday, said Peter Haberfeld, Eaglesmith's lawyer. […]

Audrienne Osborne, 17, is the illustrator of a new booklet for junior rangers distributed by Lassen Volcanic National Park. […]

A veteran detective with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department who lives in Yuba City was arrested Friday in Sutter County on possible assault charges, according to reports in the Marysville Appeal-Democrat. […]

Lassen Volcanic National Park officials will hold a community meeting Wednesday in Old Station to share lessons learned from last year's 28,000-acre Reading fire. […]

A wrongful termination lawsuit filed against Lassen County by former county Administrative Officer Tom Stone has been postponed to June 17. […]

With less than two weeks to go before their springtime adjournment, Illinois lawmakers are being pressured over whether they will make their state the 13th to approve gay marriage. On Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton urged members of the Illinois House to vote for gay marriage as a way to ... […]

Gay or lesbian domestic partners who want to serve together in the Peace Corps may start applying for assignments this summer. "Service in the Peace Corps is a life-defining leadership experience for Americans who want to make a difference around the world," Carrie Hessler-Radelet, deputy director of the Peace Corps, ... […]

The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court ... […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court in San Francisco has struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless there's a medical emergency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting with Roe v. ... […]

The company Real Bronx Tours has dropped its billed trips to see a real, live New York City "ghetto," after local politicians railed and termed the tourist draw — which grabbed at the European and Australian market — a despicable example of capitalism run amok. "I am happy to hear ... […]

America's teens appear to be finally catching on to the fact that writing up their latest beer pong triumph or their true feelings about their Spanish teacher on their Facebook page may not be such a great idea. A new Pew Research Center study released Tuesday suggests that younger Web ... […]

In the wake of devastating tornadoes that touched down across the Midwest and particularly hard in Oklahoma, parents across the region are assembling to hear roll-call updates on their missing children at perhaps the most appropriate of settings — churches. Dozens surrounded the muddy entrance to an Oklahoma City church ... […]

MIAMI — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami says he doesn't want any more reconstructive surgery. Ronald Poppo spent nearly a month in a hospital after the attack alongside a Miami highway. Since then, he's been living in a ... […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely. The technology, but not an actual gun, was slated to be demonstrated Tuesday at ... […]

Calling the devastating tornadoes that leveled parts of Moore, Okla., Monday some of the most destructive in history, President Obama pledged to devote all the resources available for as long as needed to assist those who have lost homes and loved ones. "Our prayers are with the people of Oklahoma ... […]

Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday the IRS, while engaging in "unacceptable" targeting of conservative groups, may have been set up for failure by campaign finance law ambiguities that allowed tax-exempt groups to engage in partisan politics without disclosing their donors. In the Senate's first hearing on ... […]

Los Angeles Dodgers star and Oklahoma native Matt Kemp pledged to give $1,000 for every home run he hits to victims of the deadly tornadoes that swept through his home state. Kemp, who starred in baseball and basketball at Midwest City High School, posted Monday night on Twitter ... […]