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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. […]

Marcus Moeller narrowly escaped a deadly twister when he moved out of Joplin, Mo., only a few hours before a storm tore through that city and killed 161 people on May 22, 2011. But that's not even the closest that the college basketball coach has come to a killer tornado. ... […]

When it comes to moral values, Americans (still) do not think the state of the union is good, a new Gallup Poll says. Some 72 percent of Americans said moral values in America are "getting worse," compared with 20 percent who said they are "getting better" and 6 percent who ... […]

The career diplomat who led the State Department's internal investigation into September 2012 Benghazi attacks has agreed to appear for a private, transcribed interview with investigators from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which had issued a subpoena after initial resistance from the diplomat. Former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering […]

A Florida man identified as an acquaintance of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed Wednesday by an FBI agent after the man reportedly attacked the agent with a knife during questioning, the FBI said. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said in a statement the agent was acting on ... […]

Just a day after the devastating tornadoes struck in Oklahoma, the mayor of Moore — which was practically wiped out by the storm winds — is calling for new regulations aimed at preventing a similar calamity. Mayor Glenn Lewis said all new homes should be forced to have storm shelters. ... […]

Twenty members of Congress have sent a letter to the Boy Scouts of America, urging it to drop its ban on gay youth and adults. Excluding gay Scouts and Scout leaders "is counter to BSA's mission to teach our youth to combat discrimination," said the letter, signed by 20 Democrats, ... […]

The economy is growing moderately and employment has picked up recently, but growth continues to be held back by budget constraints, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke testified Wednesday. Budget cuts and tax increases at all levels of government have exerted a powerful drag on the economy throughout the nearly ... […]

The pizza deliveryman might be in trouble if Anjan Contractor's 3-D food printer is a success. His company, Systems & Materials Research Corp., has received a $125,000 grant from NASA to create such a machine. The agency awarded the money to the company after being impressed by a prototype chocolate ... […]

A Colorado man who stopped to help an accident victim who had rolled his car on the highway and was trapped inside got a real life lesson in the saying, "No good deed goes unpunished." Once the victim was freed, he stole the Good Samaritan's truck and fled. Jesus Rivera ... […]

NASA faces a financial crisis and does not have the technological means or funding to follow through with its goal of landing astronauts on Mars by mid-2030s, a leading astronomer told lawmakers this week. Steven M. Squyers, an astronomy professor at Cornell, said Congress should not dictate new milestones for ... […]

Convicted murderer Jodi Arias — who just last week was saying she wanted the death penalty — now says she prefers life in prison, with hope for eventual release. From her jail and just hours before a jury began deliberating her sentence, she told The Associated Press that she "deserves ... […]

A memorial service is scheduled this weekend for a Detroit-area youth minister killed Sunday in a car crash on his way to Myrtle Beach to honeymoon with his wife. The service for Jordan Costa, 21, will be held Saturday at Connection Church in Canton Township, where he and his ... […]