Rhythm & Blooms, May Day Party Help beautify Historic Main Street with blooming flower baskets at our fundraiser. Music my "Hot Diggity," celebrity bartenders, no-host bar, food, prizes 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Cozmic Café, 629 Main Street, Placerville Donation: $25.00, Tickets available at Annieberries, Cozmic Café, Kiddlywinks, Placerville Clothing, River City Bank, Tomei's or by credit card online www.placerville-downtown.org For more information contact: Placerville Downtown Association (530) 672-3436
San Francisco city officials have given preliminary approval to a proposal to turn the local zoo into a sanctuary for rescued wildlife and domestic animals.
Dozens of jack rabbits are living in the construction zone at the soon-to-be Morse Park in Elk Grove -- but one local teenager is worried when construction fences come down.
AP - A charter bus carrying Vietnamese worshippers on a pilgrimage slammed onto its side and off a highway north of Dallas early Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 40, authorities said.
AP - Michigan's attorney general announced he was charging Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation between Kilpatrick and a sheriff's detective.
AP - A southern Oregon community long involved in battling wildfires was plunged into mourning with word that seven of the nine people killed in a Northern California helicopter crash were employees of a local company that has mustered contract firefighting crews since 1979.
AP - Pleas from an illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed he was unfairly denied legal help from his consulate when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas weren't enough to spare him from the death chamber.
AP - A woman who took in a family recovering from Hurricane Katrina was arrested and charged with kidnapping Thursday after authorities said she refused to return five children to their mother and went on the run with them for a month.
AP - A flight attendant says she witnessed the wife of evangelical pastor Joel Osteen throw a tantrum when she didn't get her way after a small spill on her seat wasn't quickly cleaned.
AP - The investigation into the identity of a mysterious man accused of kidnapping his daughter in Boston and wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple has gone international.
AP - A sport utility vehicle packed with illegal immigrants rolled over Thursday on a rural highway southeast of Phoenix, killing nine people and injuring the other 10 on board, authorities said.
AP - Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she truly wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams. And she's going to keep saying it, despite the doubters.
AP - A bar worker at a popular Times Square karaoke club was arrested Thursday after confessing to beating a woman to death with a pipe on the club's roof during an argument, police said.
AP - A commercial fisherman is charged with poaching thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters, in a case that spotlights an ongoing problem off the Florida coast.