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The Reno City Council has approved an agreement to buy the downtown post office, but the $5.1 million deal is far from certain.

Patients at a San Diego medical center have been warned that a hacker breached the center's computers and gained access to patients' personal information.

A Texas woman who formerly followed evangelist Tony Alamo told a federal jury Thursday that the minister often joked about taking an underage girl with him on the road as a wife and sex partner.

Washoe County health officials say 21 new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in the past week, bringing the county's total to 177.

San Diego police have shot to death a woman they say held a knife to the neck of another woman in a Mira Mesa home.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is announcing a "major decision" concerning management of Northwest forests.

During his year as a foreign exchange student in the United States, 18-year-old Carlos Villarreal lived not with a welcoming family, but with two ex-convicts in a seedy house that smelled of dog feces where the food was labeled "DO NOT TOUCH." He left 14 pounds lighter.

Old-style parking meters, reviled over the decades by coin-starved drivers, are currently getting plenty of love from bicyclists worried about their possible demise.

A Chinese-born engineer accused of passing critical trade secrets on the U.S. space program to China in the nation's first economic espionage trial will soon learn his fate.

San Diego prosecutors have charged a teenage girl with beating and seriously injuring her 60-year-old mother when she refused to take her surfing.

The Marine Corps has charged a reserve major at Camp Pendleton with mishandling classified documents between 2004 and 2006.

Raspy-voiced bass flutist and baritone saxophonist Hart McNee, a longtime musical fixture in New Orleans, San Francisco and his native Chicago, has died at age 66.

The Department of Homeland Security has opened the door to the possibility that immigrants who have been victims of domestic violence could qualify for asylum.

A former Orange County woman accused of arranging her husband's murder wanted him dead because she was afraid his cancer treatment would eat up their retirement savings, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday.

Alameda fire officials are putting out an appeal to the public for help in finding a fire engine bell they believe was stolen from a fire station.

Half Moon Bay officials are hoping a bond offering will raise enough money to pay off most of a legal settlement.

A Southern California distributor is recalling about 7,000 hooded children's sweatshirts that pose a strangulation risk.

A list of factories listed in a Bureau of Prisons memo, which states that the government-run Federal Prison Industries Inc. is restructuring factories that employ inmates:

The government-owned company that employs federal prison inmates is closing some factory operations at 14 prisons and downsizing operations at four more amid multimillion-dollar losses, according to a copy of a memo provided by a prison union official.

Episcopal bishops authorized the church Wednesday to start drafting an official prayer for same-sex couples, another step toward acceptance of gay relationships that will deepen the rift between the denomination and its fellow Anglicans overseas.

An 11-year-old junior lifeguard was fatally slashed by the propeller of a lifeguard boat piloted by a veteran marine safety officer during training outside the surfline of this famed beach, authorities said Wednesday.

Los Angeles City Hall is struggling to explain the on-and-off attempt to collect donations to help pay for police and other services for Michael Jackson's memorial service.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was not in the country on the day of Michael Jackson's memorial service, but his grinning face popped up on his Twitter site with a message urging fans to help the financially desperate city pay the tab for police and services.

Us Weekly magazine has obtained video it says shows never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson's head catching on fire during filming of his 1984 Pepsi commercial.

California will not place Bisphenol A, a chemical used in the manufacture of plastic baby bottles and toys, on the state's list of chemicals that are believed to cause reproductive harm.

Attorneys for Barry Bonds are asking an appeals court to bar the jury considering his perjury charges from hearing the same evidence a trial court judge tossed from the case.

Oakland police have shot and killed a man after officers say he opened fire on them.

Dozens of firefighters were battling a pair of brush fires Wednesday on the edge of the Sierra north of Reno along U.S. Highway 395.

Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. has promoted longtime executive Robert Goldstein to executive vice president and extended his contract two and a half years.