Owners say ferrets are pets, officials say pest

The difference between owning a ferret in Hawaii and one in Pennsylvania can be up to three years in jail and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.

San Jose St faces Bowling Green in Military Bowl

WASHINGTON | Maybe they should call it the Transition Bowl.

Holiday gifts for pets following high-tech trend

A holiday present for Fido or Fluffy used to be an extra table scrap or a new squeeze toy. But as with gifts for their human counterparts, pet presents are becoming increasingly high-tech.

NFL INSIDER: Bears in do-or-die territory

It's the time of year when the men are separated from the boys in the NFL.

Pence heading west for politicking, training

INDIANAPOLIS | Gov.-elect Mike Pence will travel to Nevada and California this week to meet with his Republican gubernatorial colleagues and attend a training seminar for new governors.

The Flight Through the Desert

Among the most moving and affecting passages in the book is the story of Bunny’s father’s decision to go and the means of escape that followed. And it was an escape.

Beaman Conducting Oath of Enlistment Ceremony in Indy 2007

Then-Rear Adm. Gerald R. Beaman, while he served as commander of Strike Force Training Pacific, is shown conducting an oath of enlistment for six new recruits at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Indianapolis in April 2007. Beaman, who has just been made Vice Admiral for the Third …

Portrait of Gerald Beaman

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Gerald Beaman, who is a 1970 graduate of Hammond High School, began the latest chapter of his military career in April 2011 as the commander of the U.S. Navy Third Fleet headquartered in San Diego.

Hammond resident now leading Navy efforts in San Diego with new vice admiral rank

Living life in the U.S. Navy always seemed like a natural fit for Gerald Beaman, after his graduation from Hammond High School in 1970.

Highland U.S. Marine, friend get welcome home

HIGHLAND | U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Steven Zandstra considers himself lucky to be back home after a seven-month tour in Afghanistan. Others in his 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine's Infantry known as the Dark Horse, didn't make the trip back home.

Mercedes-Benz assembles 125 years

The 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS-63 AMG brings power and four-door coupe styling to the Premium Luxury sedan market.

350,000 homes ordered evacuated in California

SAN DIEGO | Walls of wind-whipped flames consumed hundreds of homes across tinder-dry Southern California on Tuesday, and authorities ordered people in more than 350,000 homes to flee the fires.

350,000 homes ordered evacuated in California

A house on a hilltop burns in Modjeska Canyon along Santiago Road Tuesday in Silverado, Calif. Wildfires fanned by fierce desert winds consumed huge swaths of bone-dry Southern California, burning buildings and forcing more than 265,000 evacuations from Malibu to San Diego, including a jail,…

Fires displace nearly 250,000 near San Diego

SAN DIEGO | Wildfires fanned by fierce desert winds forced the evacuations of nearly 250,000 people Monday in San Diego County, including hundreds who were being moved by school bus and ambulance from a hospital and nursing homes.