At 10:20 am this morning a fire was reported in the 400 block of South 13th Avenue. Arriving Yuma Fire Department personnel found heavy smoke and fire coming from 420 S. 13th Ave. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire

This morning at 1:56 am, Yuma Police Officers were dispatched to the 2400 block West 3rd Street in reference to shots fired. Upon arrival, officers located one 19 year old male victim with a gun shot wound. He was transported

For the second year, Arizona Western College announced that locally owned scrapbooking and card making store, Memento's, has donated a large amount of supplies for the Upward Bound Summer Program held on the AWC campus each summer. Like the 2008

On Monday evening, U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Yuma Station arrested three individuals suspected of smuggling 32 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $25,600. Border Patrol agents observed a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado driving near the Colorado River near County

A new ban on trucks that burn dirty diesel fuel is expected to help clean the air around the Port of Oakland.

A fight broke out Wenesday morning among bystanders as the fire department responded to a two-alarm fire in San Jose, a fire captain said.

A 49-year-old man was robbed by two men, one on a scooter, Monday night as he was putting cash from his pocket into his wallet in Antioch, police said.

San Francisco police Wednesday morning were investigating a homicide after a body was found in Golden Gate Park, according to police.

The Novato Unified School District is ending bus service for most of its students to help close a major budget deficit.

A 43-year-old Antioch man was arrested Saturday for allegedly holding his common law wife captive, beating her with a pool cue and threatening to shoot her, police said Tuesday.

UC data released Tuesday shows that nearly 34,300 California freshmen intend to enroll at UC's nine undergraduate campuses in the 2009-10 academic year about 2,400 fewer than last year.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a new budget that slashes spending by $82 million, and some of that money will come out of the budgets for police, fire and the sheriff's department.

Police in Vacaville recovered several GPS units on Tuesday reported stolen in auto burglaries.

Two suspects in a murder in El Dorado County have been taken into custody in San Bruno, a San Mateo County sheriff's spokesman confirmed Wednesday morning. Steven Paul Colver, 19, and Tylar Marie Witt, 14, are suspected in the murder

Gov. Rick Perry has signed into law a bill that awards seven Texas universities millions of dollars in an effort to help them become top U.S. research institutions. Perry said Wednesday at the University of Texas at Dallas campus that

The owner of an airstrip in East Texas died when his plane crashed while on his way to pick up a student. The Department of Public Safety on Wednesday said 65-year-old pilotJimmy Gaston Phillips of Terrell was alone on the

An all-night evacuation of more than 80 homes is over after crews worked all night to contain hazardous chemicals after a freight train derailment in Fayette County. Two rail cars containing chlorine were among 22 freight cars of a Union

A man condemned for the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman whose remains were found west of San Antonio after she vanished has lost an appeal of his conviction and death sentence at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Ramiro

An 11-year-old far West Texas girl was killed in a weekend shooting in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, relatives said this week. Priscilla Ibarra Alfaro was shot and killed, along with her 14-year-old cousin, Saturday night in a neighborhood in east Juarez,

Authorities believe one person is dead after a small plane crashed upon landing at Crystal Airport and burst into flames. Records show the plane is owned by Laserman Inc. of Maple Grove, a medical laser service and sales company.