Two suspects were arrested Friday morning in an incident police say is connected to a shooting Sunday that left one teenager dead and another injured.

Johnny Orosco, 22, and a 16-year-old were arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, negligent discharge of a firearm and conspiracy stemming from the related incident, said Livingston police Sgt. Ray Fong. The juvenile has ties to a criminal street gang, Fong added.

After the driest December in 22 years, and a January that was merely damp, California weather-watchers are hungry for any whiff of change in the air.

So when news seeped out that this winter's cursed La Niña conditions may at last be weakening, some of those eager observers began to pine for a repeat of the legendary "Miracle March" scenario of 1991 that helped California break a long drought.

Scattered around the globe, 24 elite surfers -- and thousands of surf fans -- are keenly aware that the infamous waves off Pillar Point at Half Moon Bay recently topped 30 feet.

With a chance of rain this weekend, conditions are not quite perfect for the Mavericks Invitational surf contest. When they are, those surfers will be summoned with 24 hours' notice to get to Half Moon Bay to ride Mavericks' legend-making waves.

Rodolfo "Rudy" Antonio Romero, who is accused of killing his schoolteacher wife, on Friday was found mentally competent to stand trial.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama expects the federal budget deficit to reach $1.33 trillion this year, administration officials said Friday evening, the fourth straight year of trillion-dollar deficits.

After a week of controversy, Chicago officials have decided to design the 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker themselves.

Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Detroit have completed their journey hours after the plane made an emergency landing in Kentucky.

Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants, a major victory for the Holy See, which has long insisted the pope bears no liability for the actions of an abusive priest.

A teen who shot himself in the face in a crowded elementary school cafeteria in southwestern New Hampshire had residents Saturday asking how he got a gun into school and expressing concern for his classmates.

Atlanta police have arrested a suspect in the beating of a 20-year-old gay man that was captured on a widely viewed video.