Archive for May, 2009

Eric Milton pitched into the sixth inning for his second straight win, and the Los Angeles Dodgers backed him with a five-run first while beating the Chicago Cubs 8-2 Sunday night to salvage a four-game split.

The U.S. price of gasoline jumped 19 cents a gallon during the past two weeks, but remains well below prices from a year ago. That’s according to the national Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday.

A man who knows his way around Sacramento and studies the national pastime suggests arbitration.

Here’s an idea from out of left field for how to finally end California’s losing streak with state budgets. It is called “baseball arbitration.”

A man who knows his way around Sacramento and studies the national pastime suggests arbitration.

Here’s an idea from out of left field for how to finally end California’s losing streak with state budgets. It is called “baseball arbitration.”

Church members say their door-to-door preaching is akin to a search-and-rescue operation. Sometimes they feel down after being rebuffed, but they believe the message is to important to give up.

There’s a joke that there is no such thing as a Jehovah’s Witness bystander.

New travel rules requiring passports or high-tech documents to cross the United States’ northern and southern borders were scheduled to take effect Monday, it was reported Sunday.

Six people have been hospitalized with stab wounds after a series of fights during a concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater. Doors for KISS FM’s Old School Fiesta opened at 5 p.m. on Saturday, and officials say a number of fights occurred by 6:30 p.m. in the venue’s lawn section. The concert featured War, Lakeside, El Chicano and other acts.

Police said a man and a woman were found shot to death in an Encino home Sunday. According to authorities, three children were inside the house when they heard the shots fired. The oldest child called 911 and then the kids fled.

The state is a leader in setting up a program to offset heat-trapping emissions by investing in woodlands.

Silvery light flickers through the Redwood canopy of the Van Eck forest down to a fragrant carpet of needles and thimbleberry brush. A brook splashes along polished stones, through thickets of ferns.