To beneft the Al Aguiar Memorial Scholarship
Fund that is haned out by the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce,
Education Council's scholarship program. Come out and have a fine
evening of wine tasting and a wonderful art auction. 6:00 p.m. to 8:30
p.m. David Girard Vineyards, Gold Hill. $10 per person. For more information contact: El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce (530) 621-5885
With the death of Paul Newman, longtime San Joaquin County residents recalled the filming of his classic film "Cool Hand Luke" near Stockton and Tracy.
Police continued to search for a carnival worker believed responsible for a hit and run crash Wednesday that left a Turlock 3-year-old in critical condition.
AP - Chicago's police superintendent is denying a news report that officers in his command are working the streets less aggressively out of fear of being second-guessed by him.
AP - About 2,500 people who fled when a corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant and evaporated were allowed to return home Sunday after authorities determined that no toxins remained in the air.
AP - Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.
AP - National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.
AP - Pilots of hot air balloons on Saturday mourned the loss of one of their own in a fiery crash at Albuquerque's famous festival, even as they said another pilot fighting for his life after the accident would want them to keep flying.
AP - Now that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to wed, opponents of gay marriage are pinning their hopes on an infrequent ballot question in a longshot bid to block the unions.
AP - A strange cold case murder story that stretched halfway around the globe and back over a span of nearly 30 years ended this weekend a few blocks from where it began, with the shocking suicide of Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura in a downtown jail cell.
AP - The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients.
AP - Authorities say a rock struck by a car ignited a wildfire in California's Napa Valley that destroyed a home and a barn and threatened several wineries.