AP State News

National restaurant chain The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. has agreed to pay $345,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it allowed male employees to be sexually harassed at one of its suburban Phoenix locations.

An arrest warrant has been dropped for actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, who are accused of stiffing a Santa Barbara County hotel on a $10,000 bill.

After a slow start, the Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says.

The federal Interior Department says it'll spend $16.7 million in stimulus funds to improve roads at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in southern Nevada.

Federal prosecutors say they won't retry a California Institute of Technology graduate student on arson charges for helping firebomb dozens of SUVs in the San Gabriel Valley.

The state Board of Examiners will again consider whether prison staff should be exempt from mandated furloughs.

State gambling regulators say September was another down month for a crucial state index of financial health.

Three new Nuclear Projects Commission members are due to hear Nevada's top anti-Yucca Mountain official outline efforts to stop a national nuclear waste dump from being built in Nevada.

A Las Vegas judge has been recognized by the Foundation for Recovery for his work with a Habitual Offender Prevention and Education court.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and the basketball great said his prognosis is encouraging.

"Elizabeth? Are you there, Elizabeth?" Virginia Ridgway asks quietly as she walks slowly into Room 109 of the long-closed Goldfield Hotel. "I come with friends."

As gambling revenue in Washoe County casinos continues to shrink under pressure from a tough economy and California tribal gambling, Crystal Gil and her Massage Bliss business are battling back, one back rub at a time.

Las Vegas police say a Southern California teenager has been charged in the death of a man fatally wounded by a homemade bomb.

On the eve of a hearing in the Michael Jackson estate, a lawyer for the singer's father filed a 60-page motion Monday that intensifies a bid to get money from his son's estate by making accusations of fraud against the administrators of his will.

Members of the public will again have a chance to voice their opinions on a proposal to build an Indian casino and hotel complex on the Richmond waterfront.

Michael Jackson's father is making accusations of fraud against the administrators of the singer's will as he intensifies his campaign to get money from his son's estate.

Sentencing for a Central California woman convicted of murder in the death of her newborn daughter has been pushed back to later this month.

Interested home buyers with exceptionally deep pockets have a chance to live in a sprawling Sonoma County residence that a Hall of Fame quarterback once called home.

A Los Angeles businessman has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for selling uncertified aircraft manufacturing parts that were used to make Boeing 737 airplanes.

Whittier police say three children allegedly abducted by their father are back home safe and the father is under arrest.

Berkeley officials are expected to make a decision Tuesday on the hiring of a new police chief.

The Burbank police chief announced Monday he is stepping down at the end of the year.

Former pastor Ted Haggard says his decision to hold prayer meetings in his Colorado Springs living room has attracted great interest from the media.

A Reno judge has denied a defense motion to prohibit use of DNA evidence at the trial of a man accused of killing a young Reno woman and raping two others.

The attorney for a teenager accused of belonging to a burglary ring whose members targeted celebrities' homes says he is suing a Nevada court for releasing a sealed document detailing his client's confession.

Two Nevada National Guard soldiers have been awarded medals for their military service and acts of bravery in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A judge on Monday ordered a woman to stay away from Justin Timberlake for the next three years.

Prosecutors in the Mexico state of Baja California say they freed a U.S. citizen who was kidnapped last week near the border.

Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a spacecraft that will be propelled by the subtle pressure of sunlight.