With the death of Paul Newman, longtime San Joaquin County residents recalled the filming of his classic film "Cool Hand Luke" near Stockton and Tracy.

A cyclone fence just barely saved the day after a parked car rolled off a Sacramento street and hung precariously over Interstate 80 traffic Saturday.

One year after fire ravaged Granzella's, the famous I-5 pit stop in Williams celebrated its official grand reopening Saturday.

Fire crews battled to gain control of a wind-driven two-alarm grass fire along the American River Parkway Saturday.

A bear blamed for breaking into a series of homes and businesses in Incline Village this year has been captured and euthanized.

Police continued to search for a carnival worker believed responsible for a hit and run crash Wednesday that left a Turlock 3-year-old in critical condition.

AP - Firefighters backed by water-dumping helicopters and planes gained ground Sunday on a wildfire that destroyed two homes and forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people in a rugged area 20 miles north of downtown.

AP - The attorney for a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States.

AP - David Letterman and Sen. John McCain will get a chance to make up.

AP - She shot herself in the chest Oct. 1 before she could be taken away from the foreclosed house, which was worth less than its mortgage from the day she took out the loan.

AP - Chicago's police superintendent is denying a news report that officers in his command are working the streets less aggressively out of fear of being second-guessed by him.

AP - In the Tenderloin, corner stores sell more alcohol than food, drug-addled pan handlers shake paper cups at passers-by and churches vie for real estate with strip clubs.

AP - About 2,500 people who fled when a corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant and evaporated were allowed to return home Sunday after authorities determined that no toxins remained in the air.

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

AP - Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.

AP - National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

AP - The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century Portuguese politics.

AP - Pilots of hot air balloons on Saturday mourned the loss of one of their own in a fiery crash at Albuquerque's famous festival, even as they said another pilot fighting for his life after the accident would want them to keep flying.

AP - Now that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to wed, opponents of gay marriage are pinning their hopes on an infrequent ballot question in a longshot bid to block the unions.