Tim Lincecum pitched 72 3 innings, and closer Brian Wilson got out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, helping the Giants to a 3-1 victory over Atlanta on Sunday.

SONORA (AP) - A 34-year-old man was rescued from an abandoned gold mine Sunday morning after spending two nights at the bottom of the dark shaft he'd tumbled down, according to authorities.

A man either jumped or fell onto Highway 101 from Highway 87 today at 9:45 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.

Two teenage graffiti artists have been arrested for vandalism in Gilroy, and police are continuing today to search for other suspects.

A man is in critical condition this morning after he was shot while driving, causing him to crash into a sound wall in unincorporated Contra Costa County in the Bay Point area on Saturday night, a sheriff's sergeant said.

A 22-year-old Fairfield man was charged with drunken driving after he allegedly sped in excess of 100 mph and caused a fatal collision on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Russias president promised to start withdrawing forces from positions in Georgia on Monday, but suggested they could stay in the breakaway region at the heart of the fighting that has reignited Cold War tensions. Top American officials said Washington would...

So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to John McCains president, George W. Bush, and chided his...

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man early this morning on a relatively quiet street in the Frick neighborhood of East Oakland. The unidentified victim, an Oakland resident, was shot at 12:07 a.m. on the 5600 block of Fleming Avenue, just...

Authorities say a 16-year-old girl who died after losing control of her car had been texting on her cell phone moments before the accident. Kayla Preuss, of Highland, was driving on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Redlands when she lost control of her car and...

A 21-year-old Castro Valley man died in a fiery crash on the Bay Bridge early this morning, after the car he was traveling in was struck by a suspected drunken driver. Scott Leister, who was in the backseat of a Mercedes Benz carrying two other people, was...

A body found in a remote area was been identified as the clerk whose abduction from a store in a small North Texas town was recorded by security cameras, authorities said Sunday. Mindy Daffern, 46, had been missing since Friday from the store her family owns...