Sacramento Bee

The number of Sacramento-area homes on the market rose sharply again last month to the highest point since September 2001 -- a trend fueled by more people trying to cash...

While growing up in Birmingham, Ala., Daniel Bryant saw bedraggled derelicts standing on the corner, swilling cheap wine from bottles wrapped in brown paper bags. "The wino was seen as...

Celebrities hawking products is hardly a new development: It seems like every time we turn around, another star is lending Tinseltown glitter to clothes, cars and even denture cream. Sometimes,...

Of all the lost-children stories, the recent four-day ordeal of 11-year-old Brennan Hawkins is the most curious. The Utah boy seemed to have hid from rescuers near his Boy Scout...

Barry Bonds had a great day Friday, and he may not play baseball again this season. Jason Giambi had a great day before ever pulling on his Yankees uniform. Marion...

In every generation, there is a chosen one. Since the final episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" two years ago, some people may have forgotten who that chosen one was....

Hybris: n. Excessive pride based solely on one's hybrid car. It isn't technically a word yet, but the folks at a trendy online newsletter thought the hybrid phenomenon was too...

NASCAR is not only fast and furious, it's downright fashionable. Sure, there's talk of tire pressure and transmissions down in the pits, but high on the hill here, where the...

Of all the lost-children stories, the recent four-day ordeal of 11-year-old Brennan Hawkins is the most curious. The Utah boy seemed to have hid from rescuers near his Boy Scout...

Every generation gets the "War of the Worlds" that suits it. The new movie adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 novel, opening Wednesday, has everything a science-fiction blockbuster should have. There...