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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. […]

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 […]

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

MOORE, Okla. — Authorities say an elementary school in an Oklahoma City suburb took a direct hit from a mile-wide tornado. Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department says there is no word of injuries from the elementary school. Knight says the school suffered "extensive damage" on Monday afternoon. ... […]

VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) — A van veered off a southern Illinois highway and overturned several times Monday, killing five people and sending six others to hospitals, authorities said. Illinois State Police Sgt. Mark Zimmerman said five people died at the scene of the accident, which occurred shortly before 10 ... […]

BOSTON (AP) — Cardinal Sean O'Malley, archbishop of Boston, skipped Boston College's commencement Monday because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports a bill in his country that would allow abortion. A few dozen protesters, some playing bagpipes, demonstrated at the college during the morning graduation ... […]

The U.S. attorney in Arizona leaked an internal report to undermine a veteran Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent who was highly critical of the botched “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General said Monday in a report. Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz ... […]

Poor people are leaving the cities behind and heading to the suburbs, a new report from The Brookings Institution finds. Those in poverty living the suburban life increased by 67 percent between 2000 and 2011, the report said. But looking at the percentages closer: Cities still have a higher percent ... […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings. The justices said they will review an appeals court ruling that held that the upstate New York town of ... […]

Gunmaker Smith & Wesson tops the list of best businesses in bright blue Massachusetts — after not making the list at all last year — a new report in the Boston Globe found. The 161-year-old company, based in a state with some of the stricter gun control laws in the ... […]

A California teenager has invented a device that fully charges a cell phone in 20 seconds flat, and leading technology firms, including Google, are turning interested eyes her way. Esha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, Calif., showcased her invention at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix this past ... […]

Nurses treating Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say their natural inclination toward compassion makes it difficult to see the 19-year-old as a possible terrorist. And they have to make concerted effort — and buddy-system pacts — to keep from referring to him with terms of endearment such as "hon." One ... […]

The White House counsel’s office knew that a Treasury Department inspector general’s report about the IRS targeting conservative groups had been completed in April — weeks before the matter became public. The New York Times reported the revelation as news as White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer launched a vigorous ... […]

A rash of tornadoes sweeping through Oklahoma and the Midwest has left one dead, several in hospitals with injuries and hundreds of homes and buildings in shreds. On Monday, baseball-sized hail was hammering away in the central Plains and Midwest, CNN reported. Early in the morning, one tornado had already ... […]

A bus company that bills one of its tours as a real-life ride through an actual inner-city ghetto has been packing the seats, as tourists from Europe and Australia have flocked for the up-close-and-personal glimpse into one of America's crime-ridden areas. The Real Bronx Tours offers the trip three times ... […]