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A federal grand jury in Sacramento returned a one-count indictment Thursday charging Robert M. Schaefer with distribution of child pornography.

Sacramento County sheriff's narcotics detectives today arrested five people in connection with an interstate marijuana distribution operation.

A 12-year-old Davis boy was credited with thwarting a burglary by keeping his cool and phoning 911 as a stranger attempted to enter his house this morning.

Authorities were investigating a 14-year-old girl's actions before they say she attacked two students with a hammer at Columbine High School in the first assault with a weapon since the deadly shootings there in 1999.

Whitney Houston was underwater and apparently unconscious when she was pulled from a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, and she had prescription drugs in her room, authorities said Monday.

Attorneys for the suspect in the Tucson shooting that wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords are objecting to prosecutors receiving a prison psychologist's personal notes on their client.

Gov. Chris Gregoire handed gay rights advocates a major victory Monday, signing into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh in the nation to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed.

Border Patrol officers found nearly 400 pounds of marijuana encased in concrete on the back of a truck at a San Diego-area crossing.

Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento,(right) has introduced legislation that would give unionized state workers more workplace discipline protections and first dibs on state government work.

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is calling for a state review of a Sacramento County pilot program that provides state-funded dental coverage for low-income children.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is back in its hometown for its largest San Francisco exhibition since the project moved across the country more than a decade ago.

Wobbling the whole way, a people-pleasing Pekingese made quite a walk down the green carpet at Madison Square Garden.

Children interested in learning about the job firefighting will have an opportunity to look behind the scenes during the Roseville Fire Department's Kids Fire Camp, June 25-30.

Freddie Solomon, one of the most beloved players on the 49ers' early Super Bowl teams, passed away today at age 59 from complications from colon and liver cancer, according to reports out of Tampa.

A hearse under heavy police escort arrived late Monday at a funeral home officials said was handling the arrangements for late pop star Whitney Houston.

Most people weighing in on a sports blackout rule are urging the Federal Communications Commission to scrap it.

Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill.

California has a big stake in the debate begun Monday with release of the Obama administration's proposed Fiscal 2013 budget, even if the document has only a short lifespan.

President Barack Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget on Monday for fiscal 2013 that aims to slash the deficit by $4 trillion over 10 years but still envisions growth in the government's major health benefit programs. Here is the agency-by-agency breakdown:

Sacramento State music professor Richard Savino didn't return from Los Angeles today with a Grammy Award for small ensemble recording, but he certainly brought back plenty of memories.

A moderate earthquake struck Northern California's coast Monday afternoon, rattling nerves around the Oregon border but yielding no immediate reports of major injuries or damage, officials said.

You could say that the glitches in California's new food handler rules prove the law of unintended consequences.

A Sacramento judge has refused to temporarily halt layoffs planned for the Department of Justice, leaving the path clear for about 80 employees to be shown the exits.

The Sacramento versus Seattle battle for the Kings basketball team just got more vocal: Sacramento wants a debate.

In what would likely be the make-or-break moment of the city's work toward building a new downtown sports arena, city officials are hoping to seek City Council approval of a financing plan for the facility at the Feb. 28 council meeting.

It seems a little shocking that defending Sac-Joaquin Section Division I champion St. Francis is sitting at No. 16 - the final playoff qualifying spot - in today's Sac-Joaquin Section D-I girls basketball power ratings.

One season removed from winning the Sac-Joaquin Section boys basketball D-IV championship, the Colfax Falcons likely will miss the postseason for the first time since the 1990-91 season.

Backers of affirmative action asked a federal appeals court Monday to overturn California's 15-year-old ban on considering race in public college admissions, citing a steep drop in black, Latino and Native American students at the state's elite campuses.

In a move that supporters called a civil rights milestone, New Jersey's state Senate on Monday passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriages, marking the first time state lawmakers officially endorsed the idea - despite the promise of a veto by Gov. Chris Christie.

Gov. Jerry Brown wants to hit California's highest-income taxpayers with billions of dollars in new taxes, and is jousting with other groups with their own tax-the-rich measures over which, if any, will win voter approval.

Controlling California water can seem like a covert affair on Capitol Hill. If you're not in the club, you're left in the dark.

The city wants to know what its residents like about Sacramento.

Billionaire investor George Soros has given a half-million dollar boost to efforts to overhaul California's three-strikes initiative.

Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.

One season removed from winning the Sac-Joaquin Section boys basketball D-IV championship, the Colfax Falcons likely will miss the postseason for the first time since the 1990-91 season.

Folsom-based Global Digital Solutions Inc. said today that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire KRS Construction in Sacramento.

CPI Econco Division, a Woodland company that specializes in rebuilt vacuum tubes, said it has acquired the business of a Louisiana firm offering similar services.

Business leaders in south Sacramento have written to Regional Transit officials asking the agency to explore more safety measures at the 26th Avenue rail crossing, where three people were killed recently when hit by a train.

A judge ruled Monday that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky can have supervised contact with most of his grandchildren, saying there was no evidence that the children's parents wouldn't be able to keep them safe.

Assemblyman Donald Wagner has introduced a bill that would cap state and local pensions.

The search for more human remains in what appears to be a mass grave used by two men known as the "Speed Freak Killers" was suspended because of rain Monday, a day after authorities unearthed hundreds of bone fragments.

The splintered music world truly coalesces only one night of 365 for the Grammy Awards, and this year was united in the triumph of recovered British soul singer Adele's trophy haul and the tragedy of Whitney Houston's death.

Reknowned energy-efficiency expert Amory Lovins, a physicist and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will give a free talk at UC Davis on Feb. 28.

Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don't. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, but anybody can legally open an offshore account.

Sacramento-area gasoline prices, which analysts believe will blow past the $4 threshold in the spring, did a significant jump over the past week.

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association paid a total $1.1 million to four political consultants and an political lawyer last year, according to documents the union filed with the state.

CalPERS' chief investment officer today warned of continued market turbulence even though conditions have improved lately.

Apple said Monday that an independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started inspecting working conditions in the Chinese factories where its iPads and iPhones are assembled.

Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes and the Oakland Athletics have agreed to a $36 million, four-year contract.