US Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

NEW YORK (AP) , At the beginning of each tourist season, the entrepreneurs who pitch the thrill rides, hot dogs, sideshows and souvenirs at gritty Coney Island gather along its famous boardwalk to pray for two things: good weather and large crowds. Never have they prayed harder than now.

A financial report issued by state auditors finds that the state of California is in the red by an unsustainable $127.2 billion. The report says that the state's negative status increased that year, largely because it spent $1.7 billion more than it received in revenues and wound up with an accumulated deficit of just under $23 billion in fiscal year 2011-2012, the Sacramento Bee stated.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) , Kaufman County Sheriff: District attorney, wife were shot to death.

LOS ANGELES (AP) , After a nine-month delay, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" deployed to the top spot at the box office. The action film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum as the gun-toting military toys brought to life marched into the No. 1 position at the weekend box office, earning $41.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) , As he rolls through the front door of the sprawling Claremont Club fitness center and shouts a friendly hello here and there, for just a moment it's as if nothing has changed since Hal Hargrave Jr. was the big, friendly teenage gym rat who haunted this place.

LOS ANGELES (AP) , A transient with a long criminal record is being sought for the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital.

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) , Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters.

LOS ANGELES (AP) , A transient with a long criminal record is being sought for the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital.

LOS ANGELES (AP) , Thousands of ankle monitors that track the movements of paroled sex offenders and other criminals were ordered removed and replaced by California officials last year because they were flawed and unreliable, the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/14wUoRM ) reported.

Five members of a Southern California family were killed in southern Nevada when their van was rear-ended by an 18-year-old driver who later was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said. The dead were among seven family members who were in the van, authorities said.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) , About 150 to 200 patients of a Tulsa oral surgeon accused of unsanitary practices queued outside a health clinic Saturday, hoping to discover whether they had been exposed to hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) , It's the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $121 million supercomputer, housed at one of the nation's premiere nuclear weapons research laboratories in northern New Mexico, will be decommissioned Sunday.

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) , A couple from the Philadelphia area say they are shocked and hurt by accusations of mistreatment by an adopted son who left and went back to Russia. Alexander Abnosov...

WRIGHT, Wyo. (AP) , The progress of an $800 million power plant that's been in the works for 17 years has some people in Wyoming skeptical that it ever will be built. The Two Elk Energy Park in Wyoming's Powder River Basin was originally supposed to start generating electricity in 1999.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) , A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group formed by Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon, is violating the state's lobbying law. The complaint obtained by The Associated Press was made by the Independent Oil and Gas Association to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.