SACRAMENTO - A new poll is showing a growing opposition toward the effort to legalize marijuana in California.

STOCKTON - Stockton city manager and his puppy are on the mend Friday morning after an attack by two pit bulls.

SACRAMENTO, CA-A California court refused to order the governor and attorney general to appeal a ruling that overturned the California's gay marriage ban.

WALNUT CREEK - Crowds expected on area highways, popular travel destinations for the Labor Day holiday weekend.

SACRAMENTO - One person was killed, another seriously injured after a pickup truck slammed into a tree and burst into flames in the north Sacramento area Thursday night.

JOHNSVILLE - A Plumas County campground that was closed because of the risk of a plague outbreak last month is open again.

SACRAMENTO - When Gov. Schwarzenegger leaves on an Asian trade mission next week, Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado will preside over a $19.1 billion budget deficit.

AP - Hurricane Earl sideswiped North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday, flooding the vacation islands but causing no injuries and only modest damage, then took aim at New England as a weaker but still dangerous storm.

AP - Investigators on Friday released a scientist detained at Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a senior law enforcement official.

AP - When Ruth Garcia's twins are born in two months, they'll have all the rights of U.S. citizens. They and their six brothers and sisters will be able to vote, apply for federal student loans and even run for president.

AP - Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water.

AP - U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site.

AP - A two-story Comfort Inn has become a makeshift hurricane hostel on North Carolina's Outer Banks for those who want to stay close to their homes but know they need better shelter from the onslaught of Earl.