Complaints about bears are sharply down at Lake Tahoe this year, and experts think it's because of wetter weather that produced more of the bruins' natural food sources. 

Sacramento sheriff's investigators say 48-year-old Keith Harris died when a device exploded in his hand.  Authorities do not believe foul play was intended.

Firefighters were staying through the night to mop up a grass fire in Woodbridge Recreational Area that forced evacuations and caused damage to several homes.

Pablo Sandoval finished with five RBIs andthe San Francisco Giants rode a 10-run inning to an 11-6 victoryover Pittsburgh on Sunday, assuring the Pirates their 16thconsecutive losing season.

With the help of Friday night's one-hour TV event, more than $100 million has been raised for cancer research.

Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

AP - With powerful Hurricane Ike on an uncertain course toward the Gulf of Mexico, many on these low-lying islands took a wait-and-see approach to evacuating Sunday, perhaps a harbinger of attitudes to come from Gulf Coast residents returning from an arduous evacuation and already showing signs of "hurricane fatigue."

AP - When reports circulated over the weekend of a last-minute deal to keep Coney Island's historic Astroland amusement park open for another year, owner Carol Hill Albert was not amused.

AP - The government's historic bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday will be good news to homebuyers and some homeowners hoping to refinance if it leads to lower mortgage rates, as experts expect.

AP - A longtime power broker in Pennsylvania politics earned nearly $100,000 a year as a state senator, up to $1 million a year as a rainmaking lawyer and millions more from the sale of a family bank.

AP - It's billed as "the world's fastest motor sport."

AP - "Afghanistan is in anarchy," the one-time Taliban ally recalls telling his tribesmen. "Americans are establishing our future government."

AP - Washington state's last governor's race ended in controversy with three counts, a court challenge and an astonishingly close margin of victory for the current governor.

AP - In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.

AP - Tropical Storm Hanna rolled into Connecticut on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, wind gusts and oppressive humidity.

AP - Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday.

AP - Physically, Deron Dickerson was a 38-year-old man. Mentally, he was a toddler who needed constant supervision.

AP - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.

AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.