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With her tour just about to end and rumors circulating about a questionable baby bump, reports indicate Katy Perry will take time off from her career to start a family.

Anti-Wall Street protesters took over a vacant lot and adjacent park in downtown Oakland on Saturday and erected a tent camp to replace one torn down by police, setting the stage for a potential showdown.

At a time when some faculty members have been demanding the removal of the Linda P.B. Katehi, the University of California, Davis Chancellor, over Friday’s pepper spraying of students sitting passively on the ground, while in the midst of an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest, the chancellor has finally launched an inquiry into the matter.

American mining corporation, Molycorp Inc. has indicated that funding of new mining operations by developers may be difficult following the sharp decline in rare earth metal prices.

The University of California at Davis has launched an investigation of the actions of the campus police officer who on Friday pepper-sprayed students who were camping out on the campus in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest.

Prince Harry's raucous romp through the United States continued this week in Las Vegas.

Paris Hilton's teen brother, Conrad, crashed his car into several parked cars in Brentwood, Calif. early Saturday morning.

The UC Davis pepper spray video is so controversial that even the woman who ordered the police to forcibly remove the protesting students, as seen in the video, called it “chilling.”

Long before Wood's death by drowning, the West Side Story and Rebel Without a Cause star had a lifelong, unsettling relationship with water, including a childhood fear of drowning and many significant parts of her life lived at sea. As Wood's case is re-opened, and as details about Robert Wagner and Dennis Davern emerge, sister Lana Wood links her drowning to premonitions of a watery death.

Lt. John Pike of UC Davis pepper sprayed peaceful student protesters who were sitting on the ground on Friday.

A harrowing video of UC Davis students being pepper sprayed has gone viral.

Four teenagers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Griffen Kramer, a senior quarterback at Thousand Oaks High School and son of former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer, according to ESPNLosAngeles.com.

Jeremy London is wanted by Palm Springs police after receiving a phone call from his girlfriend at 10:30 a.m. Friday allegeding that he assaulted her outside her home.

Several recent polls have shown that Americans are slowly warming up to the idea of legalizing marijuana for medical purposes for serious medical conditions.

When California's Proposition 8 has its day in court, any judge who respects the U.S. Constitution will strike it down as a violation of the 14th Amendment, because civil rights cannot be subject to popular vote.

Homicide detectives who have reopened an investigation into the death of Natalie Wood after three decades said on Friday that the film star's husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not considered a suspect.

The Bluths are back.

Scientists at HRL Laboratories LLC, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Irvine have invented a new material so light that even a feathery dandelion can comfortably hold its weight without having its little fluffy seeds mashed.

With U.S. food banks facing a shortage of turkeys this season, Thanksgiving Day will not be the same for some Americans this year. Because of the nation's bad economy, the number of turkey donations will be reduced drastically.

Until the Lincoln Unified School District finishes investigating claims that Heidi Kaeslin's been making money on the side by working on pornographic Web sites with a retired police officer using one of its laptops, the 35-year-old California teacher will be on paid leave, The Record reported Wednesday.

A light sentence handed down on Friday for a former top UBS private banker who became a U.S. government informant on wealthy American tax cheats ramps up pressure on the Swiss banking industry.