Fisher Price Toys has announced a recall involving 83 different toys. The toys are all toys representing various Nickelodeon and Sesame Street characters including Dora the explorer, Elmo, Big Bird and the rest of the gang.

An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday, pitching dozens of cars 60 feet into the water and killing at least seven people.

Al Qaeda, in their effort to increase their propaganda around the world has entered into a new type of rhetoric- web advertising.

If you lease an airport hanger at Westover Field your rent will be increasing upon your lease renewal after cost of living increases were approved by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. Leanne Macintyre of the Department of General Services explained to the board that a cost of living increase is provided for in all leases, however in some of the leases the increases are automatic at renewal and others it is left to the county’s…

Last Thursday night’s meeting at La Contenta golf club was no doubt crowded with worried Camanche area residents of three East Bay Municipal Utility District owned mobile home parks. All of the residents, and many elderly as well, were concerned over their future and how it would be impacted by East Bay MUD’s update of its Mokelumne Watershed Master Plan. Although no promises were made, the utility did acknowledge some of the owner’s concerns and…

The Amador Vintners and the Amador Council on Tourism have hooked up for a joint venture which will culminate in the Grand Opening of the New Amador Visitors Center in Plymouth on Friday August 10th 1 P.M. – 7 P.M.

Another marijuana garden bust for the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Department was announced yesterday when Calaveras County Sheriff's deputies destroyed 3,000 more marijuana plants on a hillside near Mokelumne Hill.  The grow has all the trademark appearances of a Mexican Drug Trafficking organization garden. So far this year, Calaveras deputies have eradicated 26,000 marijuana plants, a record for the county. Last year, 20,000 were seized. There were no arrests and no weapons seized at the Moke…

West Nile Virus has now claimed an 86 year old Acampo man. The unidentified man died recently of complications from West Nile virus, becoming San Joaquin County's first reported death this year and the state's fourth.

The California Highway Patrol today mourns the loss of Officer Douglas Scott Russell, a 46 year old officer assigned to the Placerville Office. Russell was intentionally run down yesterday by a 38 year old Sacramento man that was leading Rancho Cordova Police on a high speed chase east bound on Hwy 50. 

California is now one step closer to seeing inmate population caps mandated by the Federal Government. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s request for a stay in the creation of a special three-judge panel to consider possible population caps for prisons ordered by the feds has been denied. U.S. District Judges Thelton Henderson of San Francisco and Lawrence Karlton of Sacramento, the very same two judges who called for the creation of the panel - yesterday rejected Schwarzenegger's…