A bill to create an online database for recyclers and pawnbrokers to report purchases of metal and other potentially stolen properties has been sent to Governor Jerry Brown for approval. The electronic database would report transactions the day they occur, dramatically increasing the odds of tracking and catching thieves. The California Department of Justice would create and administer the system which is to be funded by pawnbrokers. Authored by Sacramento Assemblyman Dr. Richard Pan, the bill passed each house without a single no vote.

Some California Democrats are turned off by comments Republican hopeful Mitt Romney made about the state's economy. 

KFBK's Tim Lantz has more for you on the reaction to Mr. Romney's words:

The tentative contract agreement reached by Save Mart and the grocer's workforce seems to be falling apart.  In an announcement released yesterday by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, it was revealed that even though Central Valley Save Mart employees had ratified the new labor deal, Bay Area workers voted it down. However, the Bay Area union members did not vote for a strike.

Union officials say they are asking for an opportunity to sit down with Save Mart negotiators and talk about where to go from here, but industry analysts say the failed Save Mart agreement could have a ripple effect on negotiations between other unionized grocery chains also experiencing labor unrest in Northern California.  Safeway and Raley's were considering the Save Mart deal as a possible framework for deals of their own.

More than 4 million people have visited the Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center since it opened last summer on the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum announced the milestone Thursday.

The nonprofit foundation says visitors have come from all 50 states and 170 countries to see the two giant reflecting pools ringed by waterfalls that make up the memorial.

Has Tahoe been looking a little more "blue" lately?  Well, it might not be visible to the naked eye, but as KFBK's Megan Goldsby tells us...UC Davis' annual State of the Lake Report shows that clarity improved last year.

U.S. airlines are more punctual and less likely to lose your bag than at any time in more than two decades. Nearly 84 percent of domestic flights arrived within 15 minutes of their schedule time in the first half of the year - the best performance since the government started tracking such data in 1988. The improvement over the first six months of 2011 is mostly the result of good weather and fewer planes in the sky because of weak demand.

And there's a side benefit: Fewer than three suitcases per 1,000 passengers were reported lost, damaged or delayed in the first half of the year, a record low. These trends aren't just good for passengers. Airlines will benefit too. Delays cost the industry more than $5 billion last year.