A federal judge temporarily lifted pumping limits Friday designed to protect endangered wild salmon in order to speed more irrigation water to California's drought-addled fields. Some of the country's largest farms had pressed for the protections to be suspended ...

An Oahu motorist accused of running over and killing a woman in the drive-through lane of a fast-food restaurant has been indicted for manslaughter. Thirty-six-year-old Albert Birmingham had been charged with the less serious offense of negligent homicide in the Jan. 31 death of 20-year-old Raelynn ...

The battle for the premiership title enters a potentially decisive phase on Wednesday as Arsenal and Chelsea go into tough fixtures aiming to replace Manchester United at the top of the table. United claimed top spot at the weekend with a Wayne Rooney-inspired 4-0 demolition of Hull, but Arsenal will move back above them and into pole position if ...