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A public official pushing for a breakaway state in Southern California is seeking corporate sponsorship for an idea that has been embraced by local government but rejected by Gov. Jerry Brown.

A look at America's obesity problem.

New York Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran will not be going across town to the Yankees. According to sources with ESPN, the Yankees aren't interested in Beltran wearing the pin stripes.

The New York Mets traded closer Francisco Rodriguez to the Milwaukee Brewers last night, avoiding the expensive option in the pitcher's contract with the team.

Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people in January and injured 13 others including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, had been under the watch of his college authorities for disruptive behavior and he had been asked to produce a mental health clearance before he could return from a suspension, it has emerged.

In an attack reminiscent of the hacking of the U.S. Senate Web site, Arizona police and an FBI affiliate, activist hacker group AntiSec hacked into a defense and homeland security consultant and posted online as many as 67,000 unique e-mail addresses, out of which 53,000 carried .mil domains. Initial reports had claimed that the hacking had stolen as many as 90,000 military e-mails from U.S. contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

Four days after a fan died trying to catch a baseball at Texas Rangers game, a spectator at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby came close to replaying the fatal fall at last week's game, the Associated Press reported.

The outfielder expresses his thoughts during the All-Star break.

After the death of Shannon Stone last week, another baseball fan fell from the stands trying to catch a ball.

Government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton was the target of hackers on Monday who claims to have wiped out source codes and stolen thousands of email addresses.

Hispanics form a significant and ever-increasing portion of big league baseball players.

Shortstop opted for a three-day break instead

If Republican Jeff Stone has anything to do with it, that's exactly what will happen. Stone has asked fellow members of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to support a motion to bring together officials from 13 counties to discuss the idea.

The U.S. registered its 19th driest and 26th warmest June on record, according to scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

Soaring temperatures have scorched states from Illinois to Texas and have done more than cause discomfort -- a record drought is battering farmers and ranchers whose crops are withering and whose livestock are going unfed.

Continuing its AntiSec activities against corporate and government targets, hacking collective Anonymous broke into a server operated by a military contractor on Monday, disclosing log-in credentials including 90,000 military e-mail addresses and passwords.

A Republican lawmaker in Southern California wants as many as thirteen counties from the southern part of the state to secede from the almost-bankrupt state and form its own new state entity, which would be the nation’s 51st .

The backlash against Alabama's tough new immigration law intensified on Friday as several civil rights groups sued to try and overturn legislation, calling it the most extreme in the nation. Are they correct?

Health officials confirmed Friday the death of an Arizona man tied to the food-poisoning outbreak in Europe a month after the United States Food and Drug Administration reported a five-state outbreak linked to sprouts.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Arizona Department of Health said Friday that a man who recently traveled to Germany was infected by the German E. coli outbreak. The man died from kidney complications.

Mike Trout, the top prospect in baseball, will make his Major League Baseball debut tonight for the Los Angeles Angels when they host the Seattle Mariners.