A shift in the winds Tuesday night fanned flames of the American River Complex fire, causing the blaze to grow over 10,000 acres sending more smoke into the Sacramento Valley.

If the kids are getting restless being cooped up indoors because of the bad air, there are some safe places in Sacramento where they can burn off that extra energy.

A Sacramento doctor says you don't have to spend big bucks on an air purifier: a $16 air filter is all you need.

Two of three lanes remain closed on eastbound Interstate 80 west of the Pitt School exit.

The price of regular unleaded went up 9 cents a gallon in California in the past month, says the American Automobile Association.

A new report says installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would alter the view and cost as much as $50 million. 

AP - A wind-stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento burned dozens of homes Tuesday and has forced thousands of fire-weary residents to flee, state officials said.

AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha could become slightly stronger in the next couple of days as it heads toward Bermuda.

AP - A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a Louisiana prison guard.

AP - The U.S. agriculture secretary expressed confidence in the nation's food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves.

AP - A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.

AP - No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday.

AP - Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them.

AP - Police have confirmed that a body software programmer Hans Reiser led them to is that of the estranged wife he is convicted of killing.

AP - Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.

AP - Mourners who gathered to remember former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Tuesday celebrated both sides of his conflicting persona: the cantankerous conservative who reveled in political confrontation and the Southern gentleman who would do anything to lend a hand.

AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.

AP - Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel told jurors Tuesday that he was shocked to learn the man accused of accosting him was linked to a movement that denies millions of Jews were killed during World War II.

AP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.