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Zookeepers, growers prepare for California freeze
Zookeepers turned up the heat for chimpanzees and strawberry growers covered their crops as Californians braced Friday for three days of freezing ...
From monkeys to surfers, Calif. braces for cold
Strawberry growers covered their crops while San Diego zookeepers turned on heaters for the chimpanzees as Californians braced for a cold snap that ...
Norwegian kicker dreams of NFL after viral video
Aside from his ability to boot the ball through the uprights from almost kind of angle or distance, Havard Rugland is a complete stranger to the ...
Hot air balloon crashes San Diego backyard wedding
A sunset wedding ceremony aboard a hot air balloon got off to a bumpy start when a gust of wind forced the pilot to make a crash landing in the yard ...
Cities chart course through pension morass
In Philadelphia, pension costs doubled in a single decade. Cities in Rhode Island dimmed streetlights, raised taxes and put off road repairs.
Do gays need a church of their own anymore?
On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister's robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different ...
US sailors sue Japanese utility over radiation
Eight U.S. sailors are suing the Tokyo utility that operates the Fukushima nuclear power plant, charging that the company lied about the high level ...
BYU LB Van Noy scores 2 TDs in Poinsettia Bowl win
The Poinsettia Bowl was ponderous, even boring, until Brigham Young linebacker Kyle Van Noy took over. Van Noy scored on a fumble recovery in the end ...
Hundreds honor Ravi Shankar at California memorial
Hundreds of friends and family on Thursday remembered sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar as an unfailingly generous teacher with a gentle spirit and sense ...
Conn. victims: Lively youngsters, devoted adults
At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for ...
NRC slaps Japanese company on California nuke work
A Japanese company that manufactured the troubled steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant might be looking for fixes with the wrong ...
School yoga tries to avoid religious controversy
Public school yoga instructor Katie Campbell proudly looks out at 23 first graders as they contain their squirming in a kid-friendly version of the ...
Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92
The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in ...
Somali woman gets prison for terror support
A Somali-born woman has been sentenced in San Diego to eight years in prison for routing money to a terrorist organization in her native country. U.S.
Famed architect gets 6 months for drug smuggling
A highly acclaimed architect was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for trying to enter the U.S. with nearly 13 pounds of cocaine hidden in his ...
Millionaire's billboard girlfriend plea removed
A billboard put up by a San Diego millionaire who's seeking a Latina girlfriend has been removed. La Jolla Real estate mogul Marc Paskin, who appeared ...
Giants, Cowboys, Redskins win in tight NFC East
Winning was required to keep pace in the NFC East playoff race. Losing was all that was needed in the AFC North. The defending Super Bowl champion New ...
Tijuana architect was an unlikely drug courier
Eugenio Velazquez doesn't fit the mold of the down-on-his luck, uneducated, underemployed courier who ferries drugs to the U.S. for Mexican drug ...
Correction: Women In Combat story
In a story Dec. 1 about women in combat, The Associated Press reported erroneously that former Marine Capt. Anu Bhagwati served at Camp Pendleton.
Broncos, Patriots and Falcons win divisions
If NFL executives really adore parity, they must be wincing at the early division clinchings by the Broncos, Patriots and Falcons. Not to mention the ...
Third major storm moving into Northern California
Another major storm moving into Northern California was expected to bring more pouring rain, flooding and additional problems to an area already ...
Huge California desalination plant faces key test
An effort to build the Western Hemisphere's largest seawater desalination plant faced a key test Thursday, as San Diego's regional water agency ...
Rice's big run, Tucker FGs give Ravens 16-13 win
It was such an unbelievable play that Ray Rice reached deep and used a nursery rhyme to describe it. "Check down, Hey Diddle Diddle, Ray Rice up the ...
Division races taking shape
As the NFL heads into December, nearly every division race has an outright favorite. Some — Denver, Atlanta, New England, Houston and Baltimore — are ...