Thick fog has forced Gov. Schwarzenegger to cancel an appearance in Sacramento during which he was expected to declare a state fiscal emergency.

Glenn County sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a 44-year-old Lincoln man who was shot by his brother as the two were duck hunting north of Sacramento.

A panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research says the U.S. economy fell into a recession last year.

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.

AP - Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence Monday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty.

AP - The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller will get back about half of the gold coins and cash seized by authorities after he was arrested for allegedly kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter.

AP - An FBI informant testified Monday at the trial of five men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix that a trip they took to Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains was intended as training for a holy war.

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'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 - 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 charges of steering millions of dollars of bond work to a friend in exchange for more than $230,000 in bribes that paid his debts for flashy clothes, jewelry and Rolex watches.

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 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 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.