Southern California Ediston May Hike Rates (CBS 2 Los Angeles)
Residents who rely on Southern California Edison for power could face rate hikes higher than 30 percent next year. The rate hike is being prompted by the need to replace old electric lines and higher prices of fuel, such as natural gas used to generate electricity.

Showers could also mean more lightning for California firefighters (FOX 19 Cincinnati)
JUNCTION CITY, Calif. (AP) - Showers forecast tonight over California's northern mountains could prove a mixed blessing for firefighters. Fire officials say the amount of rain expected is unlikely to have much effect on the remaining wildfires, but the thunderstorms could bring more lightning.

Showers could also mean more lightning for California firefighters (News On 6 Tulsa)
Associated Press - July 20, 2008 5:53 PM ET JUNCTION CITY, Calif. (AP) - Showers forecast tonight over California's northern mountains could prove a mixed blessing for firefighters.

Pinball devotees flock to California Extreme 2008 in downtown San Jose (San Jose Mercury News)
Where else in California would you rather be on a sunny summer afternoon than inside a cool, dark cave of an arcade? This weekend, for hundreds of pinball wizards, to bump is to breathe, to slap-shoot a small silver ball is to soar. California Extreme

Some see taxing more services as way to ease California budget crunch (The Sacramento Bee)
Buy a new suit in California, you pay sales tax. Take it to a dry cleaner, and the transaction is tax-exempt. Luis Zuniga presses shirts Wednesday at Prestige Cleaners in Sacramento. Owner Jim Douglas is worried about the proposal to begin charging sales tax on now-exempt services like dry cleaning. Douglas, a board member of the California Cleaners Association, says expanding the sales ...