Woody News

An unusual interest for an 11-year-old boy earned him high praise and nearly won him a big competition.

The Town of Paradise redevelopment agency oversight board will hold its first meeting tomorrow at 3 p.m. The meeting is necessary since the state dissolved redevelopment agencies to help with its budget problem.

Since the 1995 release of "Toy Story," 12 Pixar animation studio films have captured the imaginations of young and young-at-heart viewers.

The finches and the Bewick's wren and the local robins are singing, and right on time, here comes the rhythm section, that rataplan rapping on the street-side power pole: a downy woodpecker.

A California man charged with overpowering a stranger and plunging a knife into him 22 times, killing him, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.