This will not be the sanctuary’s first time dealing with an animal battling inner demons. The goal is to keep going forward with plans to get Mila, an elephant who killed her handler Helen Schofield in New Zealand, to California.

Janet from St. Clair: “For Dorothy from the township: The last time we had somebody next to us with his rap music booming, we popped in a polka CD and we cranked up the volume and rolled down the windows. It drew a few funny looks from them. E-I-E-I-O and away!”

MINNEAPOLIS — The $1 billion public-private plan to build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings took one of its final steps toward reality Thursday, as a slim majority of the Minneapolis City

When Rainier resident Norman Vader, 70, played on the wintry slopes of Mount St. Helens as a boy, he never imagined the slumbering volcano would someday roar to life.

The $1 billion public-private plan to build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings took one of its final steps toward reality Thursday, as a slim majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted in favor ...

SACRAMENTO -- Saying that "this is our day of reckoning," Gov. Jerry Brown rolled out a revised budget proposal Monday that relies on increased income and sales taxes from a proposed November ballot measure to avoid deep cuts to K-12 and higher education.

COLUMBUS — A wide-ranging midterm budget bill cleared the Ohio Senate on Wednesday after lawmakers removed a contentious pilot program that would have tied welfare benefits to clean drug tests.

The $1 billion public-private plan to build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings took one of its final steps toward reality Thursday, as a slim majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted in favor of a sales tax shift to help pay for it...

Ratification still needed at regular meeting Friday.

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Omari Shakur was clear about his plans.