Police said the death of an 18-year-old South Lake Tahoe woman found floating in Lake Tahoe appears to be accidental.

San Francisco police said a teenager died after being punched in a fight outside a San Francisco Giants game at AT&T Park.

It was a happy Mother's Day of gift baskets, musicians and the joy of a new addition for new mothers at Sacramento's Sutter Memorial Hospital Sunday.

A group of longtime Elk Grove residents would like city newcomers to know what their city looked like before its recent population explosion.

Democrat Karen Bass takes over as Assembly speaker on Tuesday, just in time for what could be the state budget deadlock to end all budget deadlocks.

A second day of searching Sunday turned up no sign of a missing boater who fell overboard Saturday evening on the San Joaquin River near the Stockton deep water channel.

AP - Search crews combed debris-strewn fields for possible tornado victims Sunday as residents picked through the remains of homes demolished by storms that smashed through the Plains and South, killing at least 21 people in three states.

AP - President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but on Sunday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.

AP - A medical helicopter dropped off a patient and then crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight to Madison, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot on board, officials said Sunday.

AP - Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total population of America's vets shrinks.

AP - Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business — if you run a bike shop.

AP - The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park — but it was still dangerous. It snapped its jaws on the girl's buttocks and her nanny had to pry the toddler from the wild animal.

AP - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court.

AP - On the Senate campaign trail, Al Franken frequently invokes the name of his friend, the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, as a major inspiration.

AP - From his first day at Morehouse College — the country's only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of black men — Joshua Packwood has been a standout.

AP - The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the political lexicon — pregnant, hanging and otherwise.

AP - Four times between the winters of 2002 and 2005, a blue-eyed man wearing a ski mask and dark clothes crept quietly into the bedrooms of women in Bloomington, Ill., and raped them.

AP - On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.

AP - Emily again topped the list of most popular baby girl names last year, registering as No. 1 for the 12th straight time. Jacob led among names for boys for the ninth year in a row.