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Unemployment rates fell in California with construction, government, transportation and other once-troubling sectors showing signs of improvement.

Stunning accusations that a top California Democratic campaign treasurer looted the war chests of her big-name clients have left candidates across the state scrambling to raise more money as election season looms.

The main subsidiary of mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc has been seized by Arizona insurance regulators, and will begin paying only 50 percent of claims starting on Monday, PMI Group said on Saturday.

Williston, N.D., is booming. And it's all because of the oil. People are moving there in en masse. It is probably the one place in the nation where there are not enough empty homes to meet the new residents' demands. North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate of the 50 states at 3.5 percent, and it can tout the fact that workers' salaries have doubled and tripled recently.

A 50-year-old former Richmond security guard named Doran Long Jr. of Concord, who was suspected of opening fire on his supervisor, was arrested Thursday morning in El Dorado Count, near the Nevada border.

San Francisco’s cell phone law mandating cell phone retailers to disclose the radiation from the devices has been delayed, as CTIA has sued to overturn the law and moved to block the implementation.

The world didn't get destroyed on Oct. 21, as Harold Camping, co-founder of Family Radio, had predicted in May. And, with Oct. 22 dawning as usual, Camping's credibility is at an all-time low.

Apple held an employee-only memorial service for Steve Jobs on Wednesday at its Californian headquarters. On Wednesday, at Infinite Loop in Cupertino campus, California, Apple employees gathered for the memorial service for the company's late co-founder Steve Jobs. In the Apple website, a photo of CEO Tim Cook speaking to Apple employees was posted without providing further details.

The California Board of Parole has denied offering a compassionate release to infamous Onion Field killer Gregory Powell during a Tuesday meeting. Powell, who is now serving a life sentence, was convicted of killing a cop named Ian Campbell around 48 years ago.

Steve Jobs' authorized biography has revealed the Apple Inc. co-founder and longtime CEO was willing to go thermonuclear in an effort to destroy Google Inc.'s Android software because he considered it a stolen product.

Goofball, visionary, opportunist, maverick: Andrew Mason invites all manner of description but the one thing all agree on is that the Groupon CEO is one shrewd customer.

Facebook Ireland Limited will be audited by the Irish DPC for possible breaches in data protection law. The company could face a fine of $138,000.

In the ongoing drug war in Mexico, cartels will do whatever they can to gain more power, even if that means recruiting teenage soldiers.

Earthquakes and other natural disasters are devastating incidences for both humanity and nature. Recently, there has been a number of natural disasters that have wrecked havoc across the globe. From a typhoon in Japan, to Thailand's flooding, to the San Francisco and Virginia earthquakes, and toxic sludge in Hungary, the images of human suffering are harrowing.

A.O. Smith Corp reported quarterly adjusted earnings that missed Wall Street estimates, hurt by lower sales of residential and commercial water heaters in the United States, but the company raised its full-year earnings view.

If your search for television jobs is looking bleak, it may not be your industry's fault.

A second earthquake hit the San Francisco area around 8:16 p.m. local time on Thursday, sending a tremor through Oakland's City Hall Plaza, where Occupy Oakland protestors have camped out for over a week.

The World Boxing Council restored Bernard Hopkins as its light heavyweight champion on Thursday after reviewing his controversial loss to Chad Dawson at the weekend.

Android currently enjoys almost half of the global Smartphone market, versus 19 percent for Apple.

Oct. 21 has come and gone in New Zealand and Australia, making Doomsday predictor Harold Camping incorrect, once again.

So today may be the end of the world, if you buy into the predictions of radio evangelist Harold Camping. That's what he's said, that the end of the whole physical world will be on Oct. 21.