THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Santa Rosa’s average price for regular gasoline was $3.027 a gallon today, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $4.547. Among the area’s typically low-price stations, these prices were reported this morning: --$2.839 at Arco at Hearn and Corby Avenues in Santa Rosa. --$2.839 at Arco at Fourth Street and Brookwood Avenue in Santa Rosa.

By NATHAN HALVERSON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

The recession in Sonoma County might end late this year, but unemployment will continue to worsen in 2010 as companies shed jobs to adjust for decreased consumer demand, according to a new economic report.

By NATHAN HALVERSON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

The recession in Sonoma County might end late this year, but unemployment will continue to worsen in 2010 as companies shed jobs to adjust for decreased consumer demand, according to a new economic report.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK - A bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday that General Motors Corp. can have access to its full $33.3 billion in bankruptcy financing. Judge Robert Gerber gave final approval to the financing after he had given preliminary approval earlier this month for GM to use $15 billion of the total.

By RAF CASERT ASSOCIATED PRESS

The United States mens soccer team upset the worlds No. 1-ranked team, Spain, 2-0, on Wednesday in the semifinal round of the Confederations Cup.

BY BLEYS ROSE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

This Sunday is the last that Sonoma County waste disposal sites will be open on a Sunday.

BY BOB NORBERG THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Federal investigators on Thursday began examining the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Holbrook, Ariz., several hours after leaving Sonoma County’s airport.

By DAN NEIL LOS ANGELES TIMES

Trodding heavily toward you like a 300-foot blue elephant in a band uniform, The Beatles: Rock Band video game will consume much of the industrys advertising bandwidth ahead of its Sept. 9 release.

Facebook is testing new privacy controls that will allow the online hangouts roughly 200 million users to decide who should see each of their personal updates.

By STEVEN WINE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WIMBLEDON, England - In the final game, a desperate Maria Sharapova lunged to hit one shot left-handed, and twice challenged calls but lost. Then she lost the match as well.

Jenny Sanford did not stand by her man. To those accustomed to watching betrayed first ladies smile stiffly through their husbands public confessions, the absence of Gov. Mark Sanfords wife at the soul-baring news conference where he admitted to an affair...

A San Jose man has been arrested on suspicion of impersonating a police officer after he arranged through Craigslist to meet a woman at a hotel for a massage and robbed her, authorities said. Timothy Johnston, 47, answered a Craigslist ad from a woman and met...

A half-brother of former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV has pleaded no contest to kidnapping a woman two years ago and has agreed to testify against another defendant, court records show. Yusuf Bey V, 22, will be sentenced to 10 years in prison...

Six bronze stars punctuate the smooth granite walls of the copper-domed State House. Each marks a scar left by the cannons of invading Union Gen. William Tecumseh Shermans bombardment of the capital in the final months of the Civil War. By last Thursday,...

Her career should have been over in 1981. She was a poster, then an Angel and then just another piece of beautiful scenery in Cannonball Run. The next step should have been a failed TV pilot, a Love Boat cameo and then maybe an infomercial for some kind...

Houston - Farrah Fawcett, an actress dedicated to her craft even if she was best known for a pose in a red swimsuit and a starring role in the TV series Charlies Angels, died Thursday morning in a Santa Monica hospital, spokesman Paul Bloch said. She was 62...