Pau Gasol has 24 points, 13 rebounds in season debut, Lakers beat Bulls 108-93. Pau Gasol had 24 points and 13 rebounds in his season debut, and Kobe Bryant scored 21 points while passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the Lakers' career scoring chart in Los Angeles' 108-93 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night.

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Grizzlies, Iverson end 1-year contract after All-Star played only 3 games. The Allen Iverson experiment with the Memphis Grizzlies is over.

In Senate race, Fiorina must win over Calif. conservatives without alienating centrist voters. In the weeks since Carly Fiorina announced her run for a California Senate seat, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive has been working to convince conservatives that she is one of them.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Texting people to remind them to wear sunscreen daily actually works, research shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Texting people to remind them to wear sunscreen daily actually works, research shows.

Spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard calls director's movie plans 'breathtakingly cruel'. A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texting people to remind them to wear sunscreen daily actually works, research shows.

Fugitive arrested after featured on 'America's Most Wanted' for 3 Bay Area killings. Authorities have arrested a fugitive wanted in three San Francisco Bay area slayings after his case was featured on "America's Most Wanted."

California on Wednesday became the first US state to set energy-efficiency standards for television sets, a move designed to save billion of dollars in energy costs.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California regulators gave final approval on Wednesday to the first mandatory U.S. energy curbs on television sets, a growing but often overlooked power drain that accounts for 10 percent of home electric bills in the state.

GOP congressmen criticize settlement with Sacramento mayor's nonprofit over use of grants. Two congressional Republicans say federal prosecutors rushed into a settlement with a nonprofit operated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson that had been accused of misspending government grants.

Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leaving painful wake of overturned cases, costly settlements. The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.

Deng, Hinrich score 19 apiece as Chicago beats Philadelphia 94-88. Luol Deng and the slumping Kirk Hinrich each scored 19 points, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Philadelphia 76ers 94-88 on Saturday night.

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Slain Yale student remembered for big smile, fun spirit as family, friends mourn in California. Family members of the Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day said they'll always remember the beaming smile and fun-loving spirit of the brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research.

Schwarzenegger calls on Legislature to give tax panel's plan a fair hearing, finish this year. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he'll sign an executive order calling a special session of the Legislature to take up a plan to overhaul California's tax system ? and he wants it done by the end of the year.

Obama administration calls lawmakers and others to conference on California drought. The Obama administration on Wednesday urged California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to call state lawmakers into a special session to deal with the state's water crisis.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending rose at its fastest in nearly 8 years in August, but a persistently weak labor market and below-forecast expansion in manufacturing in September could hamper a nascent economic recovery.

As Calif. river is restored, those who know it best debate, celebrate new flows. When Darrell Imperatrice was a boy, California's San Joaquin River teemed with so many king salmon his father could catch 40-pound fish using only a pitchfork.