Cities not on track with California's plan for high-speed rail system Mayor Art Brown spent years pushing for a commuter train station combined with nearby housing in his community. But as townhouses are being finished around the $14 million Metrolink station, he's ...
Survey: Average gas prices up 9.58 cents to $2.73 from 2 weeks ago The average price of regular gasoline in the United States is up 9.58 cents over a two-week period to $2.73. That's according to the national Lundberg Survey of fuel ...
AP IMPACT: Mexican gangs take over US public lands for pot, smuggle immigrants to grow crops Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of ...
In this photo taken Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010, packages of pesticides and wound dressings are seen strewn about a camp site at an abandoned marijuana growing site in the Sequioa National Forest near Fresno, Calif. With billions of dollars in drug profits ...
<div id="subtitle">Calif. police seek man who had 7-year-old son forcibly tattooed with street gang sign</div><div><p>Police in California are looking for a man accused of holding down his 7-year-old son while another man tattooed the child's belly with a street gang sign.</p>< ...
<div id="subtitle">Jobs evaporate in America's produce capital; Calif. drought leaves thousands idle, hungry</div><div><p>Idled farm workers are searching for food in the nation's most prolific agricultural region, where a double blow of drought and a court-ordered cutback of water supplies has caused hundreds ...
<div id="subtitle">Extended holiday shutdowns are no happy vacation for autoworkers, dealers worried about 2009</div><div><p>The auto industry's enviable tradition of holiday breaks has lost its luster with extended shutdowns that leave workers and car dealers wondering what's ahead in 2009.</p><p ...
<div id="subtitle">Donors respond to Santa letter from boy in Calif. town beset by drought, unemployment</div><div><p>A letter to Santa from a 12-year-old boy who asks simply that he and other impoverished children like him are not forgotten this Christmas season generated an outpouring ...
<div id="subtitle">Man locked up once again after police said he stole a 'prisoner' T-shirt from Fresno jail</div><div><p>A 20-year-old man was locked up once again after being charged with stealing his prisoner T-shirt from a previous stint at the Fresno County Jail. The ...
<div id="subtitle">Naval officer, 3 daughters killed in small plane crash on approach to Nevada airport</div><div><p>A small plane has crashed while approaching an airport in the town of Fallon, killing a naval air station officer and his three daughters, authorities said Saturday.</p><p ...
