State News

SOUTH LYON, Mich. — A southeastern Michigan woman killed her disabled 13-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription drugs and tried to kill herself, police said yesterday. A home health care worker found the 52 ...

Authorities said that a wildfire in central Washington covered the nearby city of Yakima in smoke, destroyed at least one home and several outbuildings and threatened more homes Sunday evening. Fire officials said that ...

SEATTLE (AP) - A shooting at a state park near Seattle that left two dead and four wounded stemmed from an argument between two groups, one of which was celebrating a birthday party, investigators said Sunday. King ...

RALEIGH The top high school football prospects in North Carolina will be more likely to sign with in-state schools when those programs win more. Rivals.com has nine N.C. high school seniors rated as four-star recruits ...

COWICHE, WASH. — Fire officials say a wildfire in central Washington has destroyed at least one home, several outbuildings and is threatening more homes. The fire, about 10 miles west of Yakima, started Sunday ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Scientists will be using modern technology to piece together what they say will be the most detailed map ever assembled of the California coastline. Using laser beams, computer software and airplanes ...

U.S. Forest Service firefighters work to control a wild land fire above Refugio State Park near former president Ronald Reagan's ranch North of Santa Barbara on Saturday. Authorities say a brush fire near the California ...

State workers will receive their full paychecks for at least the next two months after a Sacramento judge on Friday denied Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's request to immediately force State Controller John Chiang to pay ...

BEIJING (AP) — State media says a bus has fallen off a cliff in southwestern China, killing 23 people on board. The official Xinhua News agency says the bus was traveling from Ma'erkang County in Sichuan province to ...

BOSTON — A top education aide to Gov. Deval Patrick recommended today that Massachusetts replace its own math and English public education standards with new proposed federal guidelines. Those guidelines — pushed by ...