Northern Californians have important deadlines to meet this week regarding flood insurance.

50 cats were put down this weekend after showing signs of the viral infection, known as panleukopenia. Join our conversation live online at 11 a.m.

Monday is expected to be one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and also one of the most treacherous.

Officials in West Sacramento are considering an ordinance limiting how many garage sales residents can hold.

World AIDS day is Monday December 1st. It's a day set aside to get people to take time and expand and strengthen their efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Morning fog reduced visibility to less than a quarter of a mile in much of the valley and toward the coast. Traffic

AP - Authorities responding to a shooting at suburban Miami mall say one person has been shot and taken to a hospital.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants to consult with military commanders before settling on a firm timetable to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama's announcement Monday that Gov. Janet Napolitano is his choice to head the Department of Homeland Security means a Republican will move into the governor's office.

AP - Ex-mayoral aide Christine Beatty pleaded guilty Monday in the text-messaging sex scandal with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that gripped the city for nearly a year. She will spend four months in jail.

AP - One of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, was a Chicago resident who worked for a company that provides radiation therapy for cancer patients.

AP - The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker.

AP - The mayor of Alabama's largest city, Larry Langford, was arrested Monday on federal bribery and fraud charges connected to a multibillion-dollar sewer bond deal that has driven the surrounding county to the brink of bankruptcy.

AP - Armed with a tractor or a backhoe, Alvin Peterson moves dirt to drain prairie potholes on his land, saying he's putting the land back to the way God intended.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama says that in choosing independent-minded people like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert Gates for his administration, he wanted people who have strong opinions and are not shy about expressing them.

AP - Rabbi Moishe Silverman stood taking inventory of a meat freezer at South Florida Kosher, the supermarket and butcher shop where he works. Dressed in a yarmulke and tie and wearing a plastic apron over his white butcher jacket, he surveyed the piled boxes of chicken and beef.

AP - The jury forewoman in the internet suicide trial said she didn't feel the defendant expected the teenage victim would harm herself after being subjected to an Internet hoax.

AP - More than half a million U.S. children have autism with costly health care needs that often put an unprecedented financial strain on their families, national data show.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama expressed sympathy for the victims of the terror attacks in Mumbai but declined to say whether the Indian government would be justified in pursuing terrorists in next-door Pakistan.