All those years of playing a stoner in director Kevin Smith's movies have left actor Jason Mewes in a bit of a haze.

"If someone says, 'Hey, let's get Jason Mewes to play a cop in this movie,' somebody else will say, 'But, hey, isn't he that stoner dude from the Kevin Smith films?' So, yeah, it definitely makes (casting agents) second guess me," says the actor.

Major League Baseball's general manager meetings came and went this week with Milton Bradley still employed by the Chicago Cubs, who want to dump the outfielder ASAP after his lousy season that ended with a suspension for his lousy conduct.

The Cubs have a serious case of buyer's remorse, but they're not the only team with a wildly regrettable contract.

This week, in what would have previously been a sign of the apocalypse, a USC football coach said of Stanford: "We'll just do the best we can, struggle our way through it and hope to slow them down some."

BEIJING - Was Mao Zedong the Abraham Lincoln of China?

In an attempt to convince President Barack Obama of its claim to Tibet, the Chinese government has likened the 1959 Communist takeover of the area to the American Civil War, inferring that Mao freed Tibetans from slavery much as Lincoln ended slavery in the United States.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate announced this week that the state has a plan to reduce the prison population that will satisfy a judicial panel of judges.

A number of factors go into setting a sale price and they aren't all location, location, location. Sellers consider improvements they've made, the original purchase price and how much profit they want -- or need -- to make. The market may say something else. Here are some of the factors that set a house price: