AP State News

In less than a week, unionized workers at two Arizona grocery store chains may be walking a picket line instead of stocking shelves and cutting meat.

Authorities say three people are dead after a vintage helicopter hit power lines, crashed and caught fire in San Bernardino County.

Three men from Sacramento County have been arrested for kidnapping a woman at an Indian casino in Shingle Springs.

Authorities say U.S. Border Patrol agents have seized more than $300,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine in southern Orange County and a Mexican national is under arrest on suspicion of smuggling.

Police say a 20-year-old Los Angeles man who investigators believe shot his teenage girlfriend has died at a hospital after shooting himself in the chest.

A 36-year-old woman has died after she was struck several times while retrieving boxes on a Sacramento freeway.

An $11.1 billion water bond approved this week by California lawmakers is filled with special interest earmarks that reward legislative districts in nearly every corner of the state, from $20 million for economic development in a rural northern county to $10 million to a University of California climate change institute.

Biologists studying salmon in the Pacific Northwest have for decades lost track of the fish just as they set out on life's last leg, that final upstream lunge to spawn and die in the remote, backcountry streams and creeks in Oregon, Washington and central Idaho.

Two people have been hit and killed by commuter trains in two unrelated incidents in San Jose and Redwood City.

As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.

With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

A Las Vegas bridal salon says will give away free wedding gowns to military brides-to-be on Veterans Day.

Nevada Test Site administrators have begun posting information, photos and videos on the Internet social sites Facebook and YouTube.

Veterinarians Jay and Valerie Holt say they had to move from Las Vegas to a 3-acre spread 55 miles northeast of the city because Jay wanted a camel.

Sharnel Silvey rides around downtown several times a month with the Reno Police Department's Regional Street Enforcement Team, eager to talk to the women who will get trapped in a sting operation while soliciting for prostitution.

Los Angeles police are searching for a man who impersonates an undercover officer, then robs victims at gunpoint.

The Coast Guard is urging boaters and swimmers to stay away from the waters off the California coast this weekend when swells of up to 19 feet are expected.

A debt-ridden Riverside County man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his wife in an effort to collect $1.3 million from life insurance policies.

A former Brazilian police officer suspected of raping six women in Oakland and Emeryville has been charged.

A county bus has collided with another vehicle in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, injuring 19 people, one critically.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute.

A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels.

Nick Counter, the longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69.

A Seattle team has won $900,000 after its laser-powered robot climbed thousands of feet up a cable slung from a helicopter in a competition aimed at developing technology based on the science fiction concept of a space elevator.

The San Diego family of a psychiatric nurse who was killed at Fort Hood says the "citizen soldier" was killed a day after arriving at the base on his way to Iraq.

Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond.

California prison officials have submitted a construction plan intended to expand medical and mental health treatment for inmates.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shooting. Here is a look at some of the victims.