There are evacuations underway in Woodbridge Recreational Area near Lodi due to a spreading grass fire, says the California Highway Patrol.

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.

The government takeover of mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which was confirmed Sunday, could cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.

Gov. Schwarzenegger will become the official target of a recall campaign Monday when the California Correctional  Peace Officers Association files paperwork to recall him.  

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

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

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.