A shift in the winds Tuesday night fanned flames of the American River Complex fire, causing the blaze to grow over 10,000 acres sending more smoke into the Sacramento Valley.

If the kids are getting restless being cooped up indoors because of the bad air, there are some safe places in Sacramento where they can burn off that extra energy.

A Sacramento doctor says you don't have to spend big bucks on an air purifier: a $16 air filter is all you need.

Two of three lanes remain closed on eastbound Interstate 80 west of the Pitt School exit.

The price of regular unleaded went up 9 cents a gallon in California in the past month, says the American Automobile Association.

A new report says installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would alter the view and cost as much as $50 million. 

AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha could become slightly stronger in the next couple of days as it heads toward Bermuda.

AP - A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a Louisiana prison guard.

AP - They're evacuating Paradise. Authorities ordered thousands of residents in the town north of Sacramento to leave after erratic winds blew embers across wildfire containment lines, destroying 40 homes nearby, in the latest setback for already strained fire crews.

AP - A federal judge has dismissed Delta Air Lines Inc. from more than 19 pending lawsuits involving a plane crash that killed 49 people two years ago.

AP - Gloria Weiss was living in a small SoHo apartment in the 1980s when one of her young students told her that he lived on a boat.

AP - A man scaled a portion of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters early Wednesday morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, the police said.

AP - The U.S. agriculture secretary expressed confidence in the nation's food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves.

AP - A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.

AP - No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday.

AP - Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them.

AP - Police have confirmed that a body software programmer Hans Reiser led them to is that of the estranged wife he is convicted of killing.

AP - Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.

AP - Mourners who gathered to remember former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Tuesday celebrated both sides of his conflicting persona: the cantankerous conservative who reveled in political confrontation and the Southern gentleman who would do anything to lend a hand.