Santa Cruz

Otter 841 has become a celebrity after a month of stealing surfboards at a popular beach in Santa Cruz. Authorities are trying to catch her, but the otter's fans want her to be left alone in the wild.

Facing high housing costs, graduate students at University of California, Santa Cruz have demanded better pay and threatened to withhold undergrads' final grades.

Officials said "multiple assets" were working to rescue 34 people off of the coast of California. Officials say that the boat has sunk, and that passengers may have been asleep when the fire started.