If the kids are getting restless being cooped up indoors because of the bad air, there are some safe places in Sacramento where they can burn off that extra energy.

A Sacramento doctor says you don't have to spend big bucks on an air purifier: a $16 air filter is all you need.

Two of three lanes remain closed on eastbound Interstate 80 west of the Pitt School exit.

The price of regular unleaded went up 9 cents a gallon in California in the past month, says the American Automobile Association.

A new report says installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would alter the view and cost as much as $50 million. 

With temperatures hitting as high as 110 degrees by midweek, a number of valley cities have opened cooling centers to the public.

AP - A wind-stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento burned dozens of homes Tuesday and has forced thousands of fire-weary residents to flee, state officials said.

AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm.

AP - A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a Louisiana prison guard.

AP - A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.

AP - No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday.

AP - Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them.

AP - Police have confirmed that a body software programmer Hans Reiser led them to is that of the estranged wife he is convicted of killing.

AP - Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.

AP - Mourners who gathered to remember former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Tuesday celebrated both sides of his conflicting persona: the cantankerous conservative who reveled in political confrontation and the Southern gentleman who would do anything to lend a hand.

AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.

AP - Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel told jurors Tuesday that he was shocked to learn the man accused of accosting him was linked to a movement that denies millions of Jews were killed during World War II.

AP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.

AP - This city on the Rio Grande stands virtually alone, and not just because it's in vast, desolate West Texas.