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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 91 cases in nine states on Sunday, up from 64 on Saturday. Health authorities scrambled on Monday to identify more cases of a rare form of meningitis, including enlisting local police to find people who might be infected by tainted steroid injections that have so far killed seven people. The widening outbreak has alarmed federal and state health officials and focused attention on regulation of pharmaceutical compounding companies like the one that produced the drugs, the New England Compounding Center Inc in Framingham, Massachusetts. In Ohio, health officials said Monday they are mobilizing...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov. Jerry Brown, visiting a school this morning to promote his November ballot initiative to raise taxes, stepped inside for a moment before the media with a sixth-grade math and science class. It was first period, so the Democratic governor asked the students what they'd learned the previous day. "We learned about, like, some poems and stuff," one student said. "Poems?" Brown said. "I thought this was math." "Yeah," the student said.

James Holmes addressed his peers at Miramar College in San Diego when he was 18, discussing 'subjective experience.' He said his dream was to own a slurpee machine.

FAIR OAKS, Calif. (KCRA) - The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department is investigating the murder of a woman in her 80s. Deputies arrested a naked man covered with blood seen leaving her home Sunday evening. The man has been identified as 32-year-old Moses Trotter. Detectives said he has no connection to the victim, and that this appears to be a random act of violence. Crime scene investigators are collecting evidence at the home on Olympic Way. The Sheriff's Department was called by a homeowner about 7:30 p.m. Sunday to report that a man without a shirt had broken into his home....

He hugged Harris and told the diner owner that his grandmother was named “Ann,” according to the Beacon Journal.

16.03 CC - PUBLIC HEARING ADOPTING THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013 ANNUAL BUDGET; APPROVING THE 2012-2017 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM; APPROVING THE 2012-2013 FEE SCHEDULE; APPROVING MODIFICATIONS IN TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO CERTAIN BARGAINING GROUPS; AUTHORIZING VARIOUS FUND TRANSFERS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS INCLUDING APPROVAL OF MODIFICATIONS TO THE UNREPRESENTED EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION PLAN AND CONTINUANCE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY BASED ON FISCAL CIRCUMSTANCES THROUGH JUNE 30, 2012; AND DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY

The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin lands in Kazakhstan on April 27, 2012.

STOCKTON, Calif. (KCRA) -- The families of a Stockton teenager and a man who were fatally shot by police officers held a march and rally against what they say is police brutality. Hundreds marched to the Stockton Courthouse and then to the Stockton Police station on Tuesday, including family members of Luther Brown Jr. and James Rivera. Photos From The Field: Rally Against Police Brutality Two busloads of "Occupy Oakland" protesters also joined the march and rally. Read more: http://www.kcra.com/news/30869689/detail.html#ixzz1rghjwZPJ

In an exclusive interview, Matt Lauer will sit down with Karilyn Bales, the wife of Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of killing 17 civilians in two southern Afghanistan villages. This will be Karilyn Bales’ first television interview since her husband was charged with murder. The interview will air Monday, March 26 on TODAY and NBC Nightly News.

STOCKTON - A letter sent to Lincoln Unified teachers that may have sounded like it came from the Grinch who stole Christmas has become fodder for how far school districts are willing to go in recognizing the separation of church and state. The letter from the Lincoln Unified district office told teachers not to display Santa Claus or poinsettias in order to maintain sensitivity toward those who don't celebrate Christmas.

Democratic legislative leaders have launched a last-minute push to allow unions to organize child-care providers who work out of the home. Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg have drafted legislation that would deliver a major victory to labor allies who have been fighting for years for the right to organize the more than 40,000 family child-care providers operating in California. Assembly Bill 101, sponsored by the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees and the Service Employees International Union, would affect both licensed family child-care providers, who can care for children in their...

Chickens are no longer backyard outlaws in Sacramento. With a unanimous vote tonight, the City Council passed an ordinance that will allow city residents to keep up to three egg-laying hens in their back yards starting Nov. 1. ...Dr. Glennah Trochet, the county's public health officer, said she has spoken with state health officials and poultry experts at UC Davis and neither recommended striking down a backyard chicken ordinance because of concerns over disease, including the bird flu.

Muslim community leader (CAIR) Basim Elkarra said he believes the death of Osama Bin Laden will usher in a new era. "The war on terror is going to be over" Video at link

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein took the stage at the at the state Democratic Party convention today to rally the base with a stinging rebuke of Republicans in the U.S. House. "In the five months since Republicans have taken control of the House they have tried to systematically disassemble the American dream," she said. Feinstein praised fellow Democrats and President Barack Obama for standing up to GOP demands to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, but called the budget proposal for next year introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the "next act in the assault on women, seniors and working people" She...

WHEATLAND, Calif. -- Another unusual hole-punch cloud was spotted Tuesday, this time above Placer and Yuba counties. A similar cloud was seen in the Sacramento area on Dec. 1.

The Sacramento City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to enact economic sanctions against Arizona in response to that state's new immigration laws.

YUBA CITY, Calif. -- Family members on Friday lamented the shooting death of a woman by Yuba City police officers, calling the shooting unjustified. Meantime, the Sutter County District Attorney's Office said the officers claim they were forced to fire because the woman wielded a shotgun. Between 9 and 9:30 p.m., a U.S. Census worker knocked on the door of a home on Mariner Loop. A man inside answered the door either holding or pointing a handgun, the district attorney's office said.

STOCKTON, Calif. -- A giant Russian cargo plane landed Friday morning in Stockton. The AN-124 jet, one of the largest aircraft in the world and one of only two currently in operation, arrived shortly after 6:30 a.m. at Stockton Metropolitan Airport. The jet, which was making its first visit to Stockton, will take two CH-47 Chinook helicopters to Alaska. ...Harvey said an Alaska unit was training in California and part of its pre-mobilization requirement calls for moving aircraft. "In this particular case, in this training event, the Russians have volunteered to assist us," Harvey said.

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And now some welcome news for a change: In a little-noticed move, the U.S. Congress tore down a barrier to imports of chicken from China last week. It's a victory for free trade and for a more rational approach to safety standards. President Obama signed an appropriations bill Wednesday that clears the way for the imports by allowing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct in China the safety inspections U.S. law requires for any country exporting food to America. The congressional move in 2007 to block funding for those regulatory steps amounted to an import ban. Now USDA will...