Sacramento County Sheriff's officials have arrested a sexually violent predator who was seen on the Del Campo High School campus twice in the last seven days and as recently as Wednesday morning.
Authorities say Hugh Levell Stewart, 55, a registered sex offender, was arrested shortly before 4 p.m. at his home in the 7900 block of Shrewsbury Avenue in Fair Oaks.

Two House leaders who met privately with Alabama's governor say they expect him to declare proration of about 12 percent in the state General Fund budget soon.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Lt. John Mitchell Tomlinson, the 46-year-old Santa Rosa County deputy who heads Santa Rosa courthouse security, has been charged with 120 counts of sexual battery on a child between the ages 12 and 18.

Insurers paid out £650m from 335,000 claims made as a result of damage caused by the wintry weather in the UK.

Brazil exploits potential as web use spreads

Thursday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 70s. Lows in the low 50s to low 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent Thursday, 20 percent Thursday night.

House Democrats said Wednesday that they will ban earmarks directed to for-profit companies.

The US government records a budget deficit of $221bn (£147.6bn) in February - the largest monthly deficit in its history.

A Sacramento man sits in the Sacramento jail on $75,000 bail after being accused of stalking and assaulting his former girlfriend, according to jail records and a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department crime summary released this week.
As the victim was sitting in her vehicle at the intersection of Coloma Road and Sunrise Boulevard, Neil Robinson, 28, allegedly jumped into the backseat on Feb. 26, the report states.

Italy signs a deal with Google to put online the contents of its two national libraries, including works by Dante and Galileo.

NHL general managers have developed the framework for a new rule that punishes hits to the head.

A Johnson County judge has sentenced an Independence man to 25 years in a complex kidnapping and rape case that unfolded on both sides of the state line. Joshua Maudlin, 34, pleaded guilty previously to kidnapping, sodomizing and raping a woman when he took her from Overland Park to Independence.

Talks between BA and the Unite union aimed at averting strike action by cabin crew break down without agreement.

NEW ORLEANS -- Houston energy company president Douglas Schantz apparently hit his forehead as he fell into the Mississippi River from a steamboat's dock early Friday, according to the New Orleans coroner.

Pittsburgh Penguins winger Matt Cooke has escaped suspension for a hit that knocked out center Marc Savard of the Boston Bruins.

A federal judge in Kansas today sentenced a former church music director to more than 12 years for setting fire to a Leavenworth church. Carva Lee White, 46, of Kansas City, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and arson in an attempt to commit mail fraud.

Police identified the man found dead with apparent gunshot wounds inside a Riverside apartment as Hassan Abbas, 32. Abbas, who was from the Sudan, was a student at Metropolitan Community College–Maple Woods, according to police.

The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body.

Wyandotte County prosecutors today charged two people related to a high-speed police chase of a stolen Jeep on Monday. Jeffrey M. Haywood, 39, of Independence, is charged with felony eluding police, felony theft, misdemeanor theft and possessing marijuana.

Up to half the food aid in Somalia is routinely diverted to corrupt contractors and militants, a leaked UN report says.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Where were the headlines? Where was the parade? Tell me, please, which Wal-Mart I can find the trophy at? Let's face it, the University of Alabama at Birmingham has won a national championship and no one seems to care.

One day after the Browns released Derek Anderson, there is mounting evidence around the league that Brady Quinn could be next.

Data released Wednesday by Auburn Montogmery's Center for Demographic Research shows Alabama's infant death rate was 9.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2008. That's a half percentage point higher than the rate reported in 2006.

Each year, passengers file thousands of complaints about airlines with the federal government. But travel experts suggest going straight to the source.

Alabama is getting closer to being the 20th state to ban text messaging while driving.

Wayne Rooney scores twice in another irresistible display as Manchester United beat Milan 4-0 on the night and 7-2 on aggregate to ease into the Champions League quarter-final.

Treasurys traded lower Wednesday as stocks advanced slightly and a government auction of $21 billion in 10-year notes generated strong demand.

A man subjected to a hate campaign over false claims he is Jon Venables pleads with Jack Straw to reveal his new identity.

Rep. Roy Blunt has never been a favorite of the environmental lobby. But now the Republican congressman from southwest Missouri has made its “Dirty Dozen.”

Unemployment in the Colorado Springs area rose to 8.4 percent in January from 8 percent the month before, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Wednesday.
The statewide unemployment rate is up one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.4...

Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly confirmed that there have been talks about him succeeding Joe Torre.

Time was when an administrator such as Hillsborough County's Pat Bean could play out the string. A 64-year-old civil servant who did no harm during the good times. Her contract formally expires at the end of 2011. She has worked for the county for 33 years, the last six as administrator.

Chris Chelios has been called up by the Atlanta Thrashers, general manager Don Waddell told ESPN.com Wednesday.

NORWALK, Ohio (AP) -- Eleven adopted and foster children who were forced to sleep in cages by a northern Ohio couple have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the county where they once lived.

The 2010 census is gearing up to employ about 8,000 Coloradans, providing a timely boost to an economy that has shed more than 10 times that many jobs in the past year.
"We still need people," said Lee Ann Morning, manager of the Denver Local Census...

Friends of Aquatics has been keeping swimmers afloat for years. Now it's trying to throw a lifeline to the pools, too.
The Colorado Springs nonprofit pays for poor kids to learn to swim and subsidizes specialty swim classes for seniors, handicapped...

Eric Maurice Cephus, an on-call sheriff's deputy, was arraigned in Placer Superior Court on one felony count each of lewd acts on a child under 14 and transporting a person for a sex act.The on-call Sacramento County sheriff's deputy accused of p

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Workers began breaking up a huge boulder threatening to tumble down a cliff onto Interstate 70 in western Colorado on Wednesday, days after a rock slide that closed the highway indefinitely.

State officials said they hoped to...

Why the UK fears politics and force are out of synch

Q: What happened in the case of someone being stabbed to death last year on Prospect Hill Drive in Gold River? - Anonymous, Sacramento
A: Daniel Ortega pleaded no contest to a charge of voluntary manslaughter on Nov. 4 in the stabbing death of Martin Ramirez, according to court records and Bee reports.
He received a sentence of one year in jail and five years probation, court records show.
Ortega and Ramirez argued at a residence in the 1100 block of Prospect Hill Drive early in the morning of April 11, investigators said.

Apopka police officer Tanya Culver just ended a department probation for violating police policies in 2007

An Apopka police officer accused of shooting at her husband Sunday had recently ended a two-year probationary period as punishment for policy violations in 2007, records obtained today show.