Reuters - Danny Granger scored a career-high 23 points to spoil the return of Ron Artest as the Indiana Pacers beat the Sacramento Kings 98-93 in National Basketball Association play Friday in Indianapolis.

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff pledged Friday that the government would help California patch its fragile levee system, but stopped short of promising the pre-emptive federal disaster declaration that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seeks.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Sacramento, CA (AHN) - The California State Senate yesterday approved Senate Bill 288, which would re-allocate $20 million from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (SDF) to be used for grants to local government agencies. Since the inception of the...

AP - Sacramento at Indiana (7 p.m. EST). Volatile forward Ron Artest returns to Conseco Fieldhouse for the first time since the Pacers traded him to the Kings for Peja Stojakovic seven weeks ago.

AP - Ron Artest is the most popular man in any room he enters these days. Restaurants, car dealerships, Arco Arena — they're all filled with well-wishers and autograph-seekers who can't quite believe what he's done to the Sacramento Kings.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Sacramento, CA (AHN) - The FBI says it found a book about Jihad -- or Islamic holy war -- when it searched the Lodi home of a father and son accused in a terror-related trial. During testimony in the trial of Hamid Hayat and his father Umer, an FBI translator...

AP - Once Ron Artest arrived, the bottom of the Western Conference playoff race became just as good as the top.

AP - Ron Artest scored 28 points while playing stellar defense on Kobe Bryant, and the revitalized Sacramento Kings rolled through the fourth quarter of their 13th straight home victory, 114-98 over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.

AP - L.A. Lakers at Sacramento (10 p.m. EST). The surging Kings, winners of 12 straight at home, are a half-game behind the seventh-place Lakers in the Western Conference.

AFP - Knight Ridder agreed to a 6.5-billion-dollar buyout by the McClatchy Company in a deal creating the second largest US newspaper publisher.

AP - Brad Miller had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Kenny Thomas scored six points in the final minute and the Sacramento Kings hung on for their 12th straight home victory, 85-80 over the injury-depleted Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night.

AP - Forward Josh Howard returned to the Dallas Mavericks' starting lineup Sunday night after missing four games with a strained hamstring, but starting guard Adrian Griffin was sidelined with the same injury.

AP - Ron Artest scored 19 of his season-high 30 points in a gritty fourth-quarter performance, and the surging Sacramento Kings got back to .500 for the first time since late November with a 105-93 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night.

Hector Duarte Jr. - AHN Staff Reporter Sacramento, CA (AHN) – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger grants parole to a convicted murderer who became an Episcopal priest while in prison. Last October, the state parole board voted to release 38-year-old James Tramel, convicted in 1986 of killing...

AP - Mike Bibby scored 23 of his 29 points in the first half and Brad Miller added 21 points, leading the Sacramento Kings over the New Jersey Nets 109-84 Monday night.

AP - Antawn Jamison had 31 points and eight rebounds and the Washington Wizards beat the Sacramento Kings 117-107 Sunday to snap a three-game losing streak.

AP - Brad Miller scored 24 points to lead five Kings in double figures in Sacramento's 102-93 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night.

AP - Just 37 percent of California's likely voters are inclined to re-elect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November, a huge drop from a year ago, according to a poll released Thursday.

Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter Sacramento, CA (AHN) - According to a new poll, only 37 percent of California's likely voters are inclined to re-elect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November, a huge drop from a year ago. However, the statewide Field Poll also found the...

AP - Just 37 percent of California's likely voters are inclined to re-elect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November, a huge drop from a year ago, according to a poll released Thursday.