EUREKA, Calif. – A pair of minor-to-moderate offshore earthquakes have struck the northern California coast, but there were no reports of any damage or injury. The U.S. Geological Survey says in a revised preliminary report that the first quake had a magnitude of 5.1 and struck at 2:27 a.m. Sunday …

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday warned jurors at Sen. Ted Stevens’ corruption trial to be courteous and respectful of each other after the panel’s leader described “violent outbursts” that threatened to derail final deliberations. Before quitting for the day, 11 members of the 12-person jury asked U.S. District …

COLBERT, Okla. – A fistfight between friends at a campground in southeastern Oklahoma left one Louisiana man dead and another in jail. Colbert police Capt. Mike Graham says Don Mancil, 43, beat Charles Thomas Randal, 48, with his fists and stomped on him in a fight over a woman on …

HOUMA, La. – A 33-year-old work-release inmate was killed in Houma over the weekend after falling from a garbage truck, authorities said. James Ellis Griffin, of Houma, was picking up trash about 5:40 a.m. Saturday on a truck owned by Solid Waste Disposal Inc. when he slipped as he was …

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – After a year of accolades that followed her shooting of a gunman who killed two teenage sisters at her church, security guard Jeanne Assam remains “low key” and says she thinks of the family of gunman Matthew Murray. “He didn’t start off to be mixed up …

Sarah Symonds is turning up the heat on celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Amidst the “Hell’s Kitchen” star’s denials that he was inolved in an affair with her, the author of “Having An Affair? A Handbook For The Other Woman” says in an interview with the U.K.’s News of the World …

BOSTON – His name is Herb, and he was very, very cold when he was found on a Cape Cod beach. The 75-pound loggerhead sea turtle was discovered by volunteers from the Massachusetts Audubon Sanctuary at Wellfleet Bay and was taken to the New England Aquarium in Boston for a …

Three dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, an official said Tuesday. “We feel that Hong Kong is facing a new alert for bird flu,” said York Chow, secretary for food and …

ST. LOUIS – Bill Anthony Jakob was so convincing as a federal drug agent that police allowed him to go on raids. He participated in arrests, wore a fake badge and carried a real gun. Now, most likely, he’s going to prison. On Monday, Jakob pleaded guilty to a long …

OCALA, Fla. – Authorities say a Jasper man afraid to tell his wife how he lost $8,000 told deputies that he had been robbed. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office reports that 27-year-old Mario Oscar Carlos told authorities Friday that he had been robbed at gunpoint while exiting the highway. But …