'Dancing hamster' pleads; barista sex case; KKK robe in black-owned store

PHOENIX (AP) — Veto-proof majorities in both the Arizona House and Senate have signed on as sponsors of a bill repealing a $30 million cut to …

PHOENIX (AP) — A suburban Phoenix school district is taking disciplinary action after a photo of students spelling out a racial slur with T-sh…

GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — A former Arizona lawmaker facing an ethics charge on the Navajo Nation has been ordered to repay about $13,000.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who played a dancing hamster in car commercials and was a backup dancer for Madonna, has pleaded no contest to single…

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California jury has awarded five construction workers $12 million in their lawsuit alleging the state tran…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Cheyenne man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his ninth drunken driving charge.

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — People who live in four San Francisco Bay Area cities can now text, rather than call, 911.

MONROE, Wash. (AP) — A former Monroe police officer accused of filming a teenage babysitter taking showers in his home has been sentenced to m…

SOCORRO, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State Police say a man detained after being found with a stolen vehicle escaped from the back seat of a State …

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — An espresso stand worker who pleaded guilty to helping her boss run a prostitution operation out of the Snohomish County…

By KATHY STEPHENSON

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Redmond police are a searching for a white man who visited a store owned by a black woman and reportedly left behind a b…

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Public Utilities Commission is indicating it might budge on its decision to apply new, higher rates to roo…

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada board gave final approval Friday to tax incentives to attract electric carmaker Faraday Future to Nevada, fo…