Tracy police have named a third suspect in the alleged torture of a 17-year-old boy believed to have been held captive for more than a year.

The California Highway Patrol says there were fewer deaths  over the Thanksgiving holiday but some of them may have been prevented if the victims had buckled up.  

Schwarzenegger is in Philadelphia today to meet with other governors and Barack Obama about the economy.

A Tracy couple was arrested for torturing and holding a 17-year-old boy captive for the last year.

Those in the Sacramento area got a taste Monday of what Tuesday will be like: visibility reduced to less than a quarter of smile as dense fog rolls in.

A UC Davis veterinary professor is missing and is considered at risk, according to Davis authorities.

AP - Sgt. Ryan Nyhus spent 14 months patrolling the deadly streets of Baghdad, where five members of his platoon were shot and one died. As bad as that was, he would rather go back there than take his chances in this brutal job market.

AP - A husband and wife have been charged with torture and other counts after a bruised, terrified 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, claiming he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday.

AP - The arrest of Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law in the shooting deaths of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew confirmed what police officials have quietly said for weeks: that the 27-year-old convicted felon was the prime suspect in the slayings.

AP - U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, who has struggled to boost public support because of his close ties to President George W. Bush, announced Tuesday he will not seek a second term in 2010, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.

AP - Jurors in the case of an alleged plot to attack Fort Dix heard recordings on Tuesday in which some of the five defendants talked about buying weapons, sniper training and killing soldiers.

AP - Former first lady Barbara Bush was released from a hospital Tuesday, a week after she underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer.

AP - A federal judge on Tuesday set a Jan. 6 sentencing for political fundraiser Tony Rezko, who helped bankroll campaigns for Barack Obama and Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

AP - One of two men videotaped coaxing two toddlers into smoking marijuana pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced Tuesday to up to seven years in prison.

AP - A Kmart worker was shot and critically wounded at a store loading dock Tuesday morning after he intervened in an argument between a co-worker and her boyfriend, police said.

AP - A man who lived a few doors down from Bill and Hillary Clinton was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison for shooting and killing his wife.

AP - A federal appeals court in Manhattan has ordered a new sentencing for a former top aide to Osama bin Laden, who was convicted of stabbing a guard in the face with a sharpened comb.

AP - A federal judge in Kansas has issued a stay in what would be the military's first execution since 1961.

AP - An elderly driver hurtled through barricades into a crowd lined up for a Christmas parade Monday and injured several people, some of them members of a Cub Scout troop, a city official and witnesses said.