A national environmental group is recommending that California overhaul its water-delivery system by building a canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The Democrats' budget bill didn't address government waste nor economic stimulus projects to his satisfaction, Gov. Schwarzenegger said in explaining his veto.
A Marysville postal worker is scheduled to be formally charged Wednesday afternoon that he opened personal mail and in some instances took money from envelopes over a six-month period last year.
AP - Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures as the heavy snowfall that has buried parts of the state began to rapidly melt.
AP - One of Gov. Bill Richardson's close friends and advisers worked as a consultant for the California firm at the center of a federal pay-to-play probe that derailed the governor's appointment as commerce secretary.
AP - A grand jury indicted a Baltimore councilwoman and a prominent developer Wednesday, the first public corruption charges in a three-year probe of city finances that has targeted the mayor.
AP - The tab for a toxin-laden ash flood at a coal-fired power plant in Tennessee could reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and ratepayers for the nation's largest public utility will probably be stuck with the bill.
AP - As the only prisoner of war held on U.S. soil, inmate No. 38699-079 gets annual visits from the Red Cross and can wear his military uniform and insignia when he goes to court.
AP - Three men, riled by Barack Obama's victory, spent election night hunting down black people to beat up and yelling insults about the president-elect, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
AP - A man who allegedly claimed to have a bomb aboard a jetliner and lunged for a door after it landed in Los Angeles was tackled by other passengers and held for questioning Wednesday, authorities said.
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