To claim gay marriage is a civil right is to "taint the civil rights movement" in America, said a spokesman for Proposition 8 and a guest on Monday's Live_Online.

Stocks enjoyed a much-needed rally Monday with the Dow Jones industrial average soaring more than 900 points on optimism governments around the world can stabilize the financial system.

Four Beyer High School students were arrested Monday on drug charges in connection with a two-month undercover operation, say Modesto police.

Officials say a wildfire being fanned by powerful Santa Ana winds has grown to more than 3,700 acres.

Supporters of Proposition 8 claim California school children will learn about gay marriage as part of their curriculum, unless same-sex marriage is banned in the state.

Breezy winds will be with us one more day. A Red Flag Warning remains in place through the day due to the low humidity and gusty winds.

AP - Two wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds threatened neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, killing a man, destroying several dozen mobile homes and forcing frantic evacuations. A second person died in a head-on crash on a freeway entrance ramp in traffic snarled by smoke and flames.

AP - Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage.

AP - A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday.

AP - For many thousands of America's foster children, prospects for a permanent home and stronger support will be brighter under a new law that bridged Washington's partisan divide and is touted as the most significant child-welfare reform in decades.

AP - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns.

AP - On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows.

AP - The bombing of a prominent Atlanta synagogue in 1958 claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city's nervous Jewish community to embrace the civil rights movement.

AP - A blaze that claimed the lives of a couple and their three children in a Manhattan apartment was likely caused by a child playing with a lighter or matches, authorities said Monday.

AP - For more than two years, U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan has been consumed by the latest entry on his resume: acting chief of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

AP - A month later, piles of Sheetrock, appliances, furniture and family mementos dot most streets in this island town. Electronic road signs in southeast Texas flash, "Watch for cows next 20 miles," a reminder that few fences remain to hem in livestock. Blue tarps cover 11,000 roofs for 100 miles from Houston to the Louisiana line.

AP - In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple.

AP - A pilot and television camera operator died Monday when their helicopter crashed near Houston on the way to cover a news story.

AP - An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years.