California's chinook salmon fishery is likely to be opened this year after two straight closed fishing seasons, but with restrictions.

Stockton police arrested Percy Camel for two recent southeast Stockton murders.

A sexually violent sex offender picked up for hanging around a Fair Oak high school twice in the past week has been released from custody. 

In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals panel rejected arguments by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow that the phrase violates the separation between church and state.

A Newcastle woman died early Thursday morning when her car hit an embankment and overturned on Interstate 80 in Auburn, say officials.

School officials' hope for getting federal money for an academic turnaround program at Natomas High have been dashed.

The mayor's arena task force likes the land swap proposal, which would bring an arena to the downtown railyard.  The panel made its recommendation to the Sacramento City Council Thursday morning. Read Sacramento First Task Force report

AP - Federal regulators expanded their efforts Thursday to go after children's jewelry that contains high levels of the toxic metal cadmium by telling parents to throw away "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"-themed charm bracelets.

AP - Kansas City school officials promised Thursday to shut down nearly half the district's schools by the start of classes in the fall without offering details of how they intend to implement the complicated plan in just a matter of months.

AP - Amid concerns over a conflict of interest and just two days after a poll showed the public opposed his investigation into two scandals involving Gov. David Paterson, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo took himself off the case Thursday and appointed a respected former judge to take over.

AP - A former classmate of the U.S. man accused of belonging to al-Qaida and shooting up a Yemeni hospital tells The Associated Press he exhibited radical religious views in high school.

AP - Officials broke ground Thursday on a much-delayed 22-acre development project that will bring the NBA's New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn.

AP - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.