California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday vetoed legislation that would have allowed California universities to consider race and gender in student admissions, even though Brown said he agreed with its goal.
Casey Anthony, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, gave a video deposition on Saturday in a defamation suit filed by a woman who alleged Anthony ruined her life when Anthony's 2-year-old daughter went missing in July 2008.
Bank of America and several other large U.S.banks plan to charge customers fees for using debit cards. There are at least three good ways to avoid paying these fees.
Oakland Raiders owner and Pro Football Hall of Famer Al Davis died at his home in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday at the age of 82. National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell called Davis a true legend of the game.
U.S. financial regulation is capping fees banks can charge merchants for debit card usage. In response, Bank of America and several other large banks have announced their plans to charge consumers to make up for the losses.
California's burgeoning olive oil producers are counting on a newly enacted state labeling law to persuade more consumers that American brands are more virginal than their imported rivals.
Hailed as one of the world's greatest visionaries and innovators,the death of Apple co-founder and long-time CEO this week moved much of the world in rememberance and appreciation of the innovator and consumer technology pioneer. Jobs, who died on Wednesday at the age of 56 after a long battle with illness, was reportedly memorialized in a private funeral ceremony.
Behold, for an unusual outburst of Draconid meteors is about to streak across the sky. The Draconid meteor shower, which was last seen in 2005, is expected to peak with as many as 500 to 1,000 meteors per hour Saturday.
Last seen in her crib, Lisa Irwin is 10 months old has gone missing since Monday.Her mother Deborah Bradely was the last person to have seen Lisa in her crib and 5 hours later when Lisa's father Jeremy Irwin came home after a late night shift at work, he dint find her.
Amanda Knox who recently came home said that an Italian prison official sexually harassed her when she was in Italian prison for four years for the murder of her roommate.
This is a tale of the small village of Skafi, which is located some 500 km north of Athens. A man who identifies himself only as Yiorgos, waters his garden in his home, carries wood and walks through the village, but without any one accompanying him. Yiorgos is the only man who lives in the isolated village.
Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombia's second-richest person with an empire that reached into beer, aviation, media and forestry, died in New York on Friday at age 87, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.
Two weeks into the Occupy Wall Street protests, one of America’s most respected polling firms released an astonishing survey on economic divisions showing that a majority of Americans don’t think their society is divided between haves and have-nots.
Shark fin soup will disappear from the Golden State's menu in January 2013 under legislation signed into law on Friday by California Governor Jerry Brown.
Federal prosecutors announced a crackdown on Friday on what they call California's massive commercial marijuana trade, including medical pot dispensaries they say are often fronts for illegal for-profit drug distribution.
Michael Jackson's doctor told police he left the Thriller singer for about two minutes after giving him the anesthetic propofol for sleep and returned to find Jackson no longer breathing.
Lisa's mother reportedly failed a lie detector test
People who take dietary supplements to boost their intake of minerals may actually be getting too much of a good thing -- and even risk serious problems.
An advisory group urged U.S. officials to formulate a set of essential health benefits under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul that is in line with cost of insurance in a typical small employer plan.
Federal prosecutors announced a crackdown on Friday on what they called California's massive commercial marijuana industry, including medical pot dispensaries they say are often fronts for illegal for-profit drug distribution.
The funeral for Apple co-founder and long-time CEO Steve Jobs will be today -- on Friday, according to a report.
Filmmakers Alex Gibney (“Enron”), Peter Joseph (“Zeitgeist”), Michael Moore (“Capitalism: A Love Story”) and Charles Ferguson (“Inside Job”) top the list of documentarians whose work scrutinizes the establishment and actually calls it what it is: damaged goods.
A man in Brooklyn, New York videotaped what he thought were UFOs on Thursday night.
U.S. small businesses are increasingly joining the big corporations in expanding beyond the borders to do business internationally. The growth opportunities are significant, but the challenges are also many, since small U.S. businesses don't have the same resources as the big companies.
Kansas City Police told Lisa's mother she failed the lie detector test; said parents were no longer cooperating with the investigation
Officials are conducting DNA tests to see if a Swiss couple is in fact the German “forest boy” Ray’s grandparents.
An entire north-central Illinois community was evacuated after a train carrying ethanol alcohol derailed overnight and caught fire, authorities said on Friday.
A toxicologist from the Los Angeles coroner's office will resume testimony today about the drugs found in Michael Jackson's system to begin the ninth day of proceedings in Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial.
The mighty Yankees of 2012 struck out in their American League Division Series versus Detroit, losing the series 3 games to 2 to the underdog Tigers. And there are glaring reasons why NY AL became a first-round bounce-out.
After spending four years behind bars in a Perugia, Italy prison, Amanda Knox is now saying that she was sexually harassed by a high-ranking Italian prison administrator, 48 Hours Mystery Correspondent Peter Van Sant reported on CBS' The Early Show.
