Local and state drug enforcement teams eradicated nearly 7,500 mature marijuana plants in Tuolumne County on Thursday.

 The San Joaquin County Mosquito and Vector Control has announced more spraying to combat the West Nile Virus.

An anti copper and metal-theft bill needs only to be signed by Governor Schwarzenegger, and it will become law.  It is welcome news for victims of copper and metal thefts.

Sacramento police arrested five young men late Thursday following a string of pellet gun attacks.  The suspected assailants include two 20-year-olds and three teens.

The hot weather has many trying to avoid being out in the direct sun. Skin protection from the sun is always a good idea, as News10 anchor Dan Elliott has found out.

They are bold and brave, skilled and self-challenging ... and this weekend, they're in our own backyard.

AP - Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Gustav has again strengthened into a hurricane.

AP - Hurricane Katrina victims still living in temporary housing along Mississippi's coastline should begin evacuating this weekend as Gustav approaches the Gulf Coast, Gov. Haley Barbour said Friday.

AP - The difference between a monster and a wimp for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often comes down to a small patch of warm deep water that's easy to miss. It's called the Loop Current, and hurricane trackers say Gustav is headed right for it, reminiscent of Katrina.

AP - Farmers in "America's Salad Bowl" are turning into hunters — stalking wild pigs, rabbits and deer — to keep E. coli and other harmful bacteria out of their fields.

AP - A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney's claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.

AP - Floodwaters 5 feet deep filled sculptor and retired Navy Cmdr. Robert Noguere's bayfront home when Hurricane Ivan made landfall in 2004.

AP - A lawyer for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick asked a judge Friday to freeze next week's hearing that could remove him from office, accusing Gov. Jennifer Granholm of being too biased to preside over the case.

AP - The man behind a wide-ranging scheme to plunder corpses and sell their often-diseased parts and tissues to medical companies pleaded guilty Friday to charges that could send him to prison for life.

AP - A chemical plant explosion rocked an area west of Charleston, hurling a fireball hundreds of feet into the air and killing one worker and injuring a second.

AP - A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, briefly shutting down the airport and ripping the roof off a brand-new college football facility.

AP - A fourth inmate who escaped from an eastern New Mexico jail has been captured, authorities said.

AP - You can feel it when this plane gets close to its destination. It dips, bumps and skips. The chatter on the radio turns from banter to business: barometric pressure, temperature, wind speed.

AP - Republican John McCain shook up the presidential race with his surprise choice of little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate on Friday. Democrat Barack Obama, entering a crucial stage of the campaign fresh off his historic nominating convention, began a tour of battleground states.