The 2005-06 state budget proposal issued Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offers an increase in state funding for the University of California after four years of substantial cuts. The proposed increase includes funding for student enrollment growth, faculty and staff

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Governor Mark Warner says it's time to lobby Congress for a major investment in the Chesapeake Bay.

A 21-year-old man from Lake Oswego is charged with kidnapping and robbery in what police say was a fight over drugs.

An Albany pastor is scheduled to be sentenced today after being found guilty of the sexual abuse of his young daughter.

A Mid-Michigan man has been convicted of molesting his stepdaughter, but even the accuser's own mother says the victim is not telling the truth.

The eyes of the automotive industry are now focused on Detroit. What's new and hot is on display at the North American International Auto Show.

A roadside bomb destroyed a second heavily armored Bradley Fighting Vehicle in less than a week Monday, killing two U.S. soldiers, wounding four others and indicating that insurgents have increased the power of the explosives they are using against American

Gunmen on Monday assassinated Baghdad's deputy police chief and his son, police said, and al-Qaida in Iraq later claimed responsibility. Elsewhere in the capital, a huge roadside bomb destroyed a U.S. armored vehicle and killed two American soldiers, the military

President Bush said Monday the United States has a duty to continue helping victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, but he did not put any more money behind his commitment for long-term assistance.

A Mount Laurel grandmother was in court today to face charges related to the death of her grandson.

Police in Gloucester County have a teenaged mother in custody after, they say, she seriously beat her three week old baby daughter.

No one at the Gilman Management Company would comment about a two-year fight to get some new homes built in a development called Farmington, but some disgruntled customers have plenty to say.

The maker of Listerine mouthwash will spend $2 million to replace what a judge called misleading advertising suggesting the product is as effective as flossing at fighting plaque and gingivitis.

A woman who was shot by her neighbor's errant rifle shot is planning to sue him.

The FBI said Monday it has caught the Fishing Hat Bandit, a bank robber who has committed nearly two dozen holdups in the Twin Cities over the past year and a half.

A nuclear plant shut down for three months after a radioactive steam leak is safe to reopen, federal regulators said Monday, trumping the objections of New Jersey's top environmental official.

Wegmans Food Markets, a grocery chain whose motto is "employees first, customers second," topped Fortune's eighth annual list of the best 100 companies to work for in America, the magazine said Monday.

There are new developments Monday evening in the federal probe into the City Hall corruption case.