State News

Calif. regulators warn of pot's cancer capability

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law....

LA police plan for huge crowd at Jackson memorial

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles city officials are preparing for massive crowds downtown during Tuesday's public memorial for Michael Jackson at Staples Center, even though only 17,500 tickets are being offered to the public....

Sacramento firefighters agree to salary freeze

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Sacramento firefighters have agreed to freeze their salaries for two and a half years, averting layoffs for at least a year....

Search of woods on Calif. north coast called off

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities have called off a search for any sign of human remains on land near Redwood National and State Parks....

Amtrak train strikes and kills 2 in Alameda County

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Two people have been struck and killed by the same Amtrak train, one in Berkeley and the other about two hours later in Oakland....

Governor sets date for Congressional election

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set Nov. 3 as the date of a special election for the Congressional seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher....

Neverland to stay closed until after LA memorial

LOS OLIVOS, Calif. (AP) -- Like an old Western boomtown, the funky little makeshift village that sprang up around the gates of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was vanishing Friday, its residents and vendors packing up tents, tarps and piles of Jackson posters and CDs....

Calif prisons official to plead guilty to DUI

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The undersecretary who oversees California parolees and adult and juvenile prisons says he will plead guilty to driving under the influence....

Air Force pilots relish tricky firefighting runs

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) -- Lt. Col. Luke Thompson sometimes skims his C-130 cargo plane just 150 above the ground, battling smoke, shifting winds and rugged terrain on his way to blast thousands of gallons of gooey pink fire retardant onto the front lines of a wildfire....