Skiers are enjoying the early winter snows on California's mountains, but down closer to sea level are big worries that the snowfall and its spring runoff won't be enough to relieve two years of drought.
A 21-year-old man and his grandmother were recovering in the hospital Wednesday morning after being shot by officers, said the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department.
AP - Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday.
AP - Six veterans who claim they were unwittingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and germs during government-sponsored Cold War experiments have sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies.
AP - More than 6 feet of snow in the past three weeks has made Spokane residents edgy, and Wednesday brought new problems as melting snow and ice caused flooding and mudslides.
AP - Three New York teenagers have been charged with federal civil rights charges in connection with election night racial violence in which attackers shouted "Obama."
AP - A federal judge in Texas, indicted last year for allegedly making unwanted sexual advances toward his court case manager, has pleaded innocent to new charges brought by another former employee.
AP - No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam Herrman disappeared from the mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents.
AP - Minnesota's grueling U.S. Senate race, already dragging on two months past Election Day, has now moved even further from the voters — and into the hands of lawyers.