For the second consecutive night, the New York Mets built a three-run lead going into the ninth inning against Philadelphia. This time, they had Billy Wagner ready to close it out—and that made all the difference. Reyes' three-run homer snapped
Rapper 50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent. The rapper says in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that the Mexican-themed
Influential state Sen. Ulysses Currie used his office to benefit a company he was working for, according to an affidavit written by an FBI special agent who specializes in federal public corruption cases.
Can the government claim to lower taxes while actually raising them?You bet. The city of Sacramento is trying to do exactly that with aNovember ballot measure called the "Utility User Tax Reduction andFairness Measure." Let me explain.
A Hong Kong-based company that operated the container ship that strucka bridge support in the San Francisco Bay last year has been indictedfor allegedly doctoring paperwork in an attempt to thwart investigatorslooking into the incident.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to defer wages for 200,000state employees, paying them minimum wage until lawmakers reach a dealon California's overdue state budget.
Sacramento's SWAT team swarmed an innocent family's home in Natomas,but the family isn't angry. It was all part of a training exercise tosimulate a SWAT standoff, using a real house for training.
California has redesigned its voter registration card, in part to avoidthe kind of confusion that led to a likely undercounting of the state'sindependent voters.
The City of Ceres will likely lift a ban on keeping pigeons as pets,but some residents oppose the action, fearing an increase in noise andthe mess the animals leave behind.
