LANCASTER, Calif. -- Seven people were shot at a late-night party in Lancaster, including a 14-year-old girl who later died, and homicide detectives are looking for suspects.

BAGHDAD -- Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday.

KINSHASA, Congo -- Two boat capsizes in one weekend on Congo's vast rivers have left 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead in unrelated incidents that were both characterized by heavily loaded boats operated with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.

NEW YORK -- A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job last week and wasn't fired, his lawyer said Sunday.

BAY POINT -- For a third day, Hercules police investigators and volunteers are sifting through the contents of an East Contra Costa County landfill in hopes of finding information on the whereabouts of a Hercules man missing for over a week.

VALLEJO _ The California Highway Patrol has issued a travel advisory for motorists on Interstate Highway 80 in Vallejo due to heavy holiday traffic and an earlier crash.

Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who was ousted last month after an investigation into his friendship with an HP marketing contractor, is reportedly already in talks for a new job at rival tech giant Oracle.

As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim grip on the majority.

Police in Oakland are investigating a shooting that took place in the city Saturday evening. Investigators said the shooting occurred in the 1000 block of 63rd Street just before 7 p.

The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition had to move its office this weekend from Willow Glen to The Alameda. Desks, chairs, sofas, paper shredder, the works. Guess how they did it. Yep.

With demand at their food pantries quadrupled since the recession began, Jewish Family and Children's Services has rolled out about 1,000 volunteers to get word out about this year's High Holiday Food Drive, a monthlong September effort to stock the nonprofit's five food pantries, including an expanded one in San Mateo. Those pantries operate less like food banks and more like small grocery stores, JFCS Executive Director Dr. Anita Friedman said.

San Joaquin County officials are planning on improving the fencing around a juvenile detention facility after a series of escapes this year Since the beginning of the year, authorities say 23 youthful offenders have escaped from Camp Peterson, a facility operated by the county Probation

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