Database giant Oracle reported its first quarter net income jumped 36 percent to $1.8 billion, exceeding analyst estimates, as revenue rose a more modest 12 percent to $8.4 billion.
California will trail the nation's economic recovery as its once fast-growing inland areas struggle for years to come with a dearth of jobs and devastated housing markets, a report released on Tuesday said.
Orange County woman had sex with at least one teammate, police allege.
In light of allegations of inappropriate dealings between the White House and failed energy company Solyndra and wireless start-up LightSquared, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issas, R-Calif., said Tuesday that his committee plans to investigate government loans programs to private companies,The Hill reported.
An announcement published on Treasure Island stated that companies responsible for 2007 San Francisco oil spill incident have agreed to pay $44.4 million as a settlement.
After over 24 hours's negotiations, officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers finally reached a deal Monday with three big grocery chains, Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons. This tentative agreement avoided a grocery strike involving more than 60,000 workers in Southern California.
Researchers at Princeton University and New York University have developed a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole that is believe to make up dark matter.
Netflix shares continued on the downward spiral Tuesday, down another 8.7 percent after Monday’s beating following CEO Reed Hastings' admission that the company had done a great job in confusing -- and alienating -- customers.
A physicist, an architect, an evolutionary geneticist and a jazz percussionist are among the 22 people to win MacArthur Genius Grants in 2011.
Diabetes does not just take its toll on the heart, a new study in Japan has found. It dramatically increases the risks of developing Alzheimer's or dementia in later life.
A federal magistrate has ordered more negotiations between the CEOs of Oracle and Google in an effort to prevent a trial on Oracle’s claims of patent infringement.
Authorities say the badly decomposed remains found in a Bay Area canyon section of Alameda County, Calif. are those of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student who disappeared May 27 while taking a school break.
Old, poor and Hispanic women are all more likely to have lymph nodes under the armpit removed unnecessarily during breast cancer surgery, a new study finds.
Video recordings of the trial over California's gay marriage ban should be unsealed, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
Twenty-two Americans ranging from a radio journalist to a sports trainer received no-strings-attached genius grants worth $500,000 each, a charitable foundation announced on Tuesday.
For 25 years, Cakebread Cellars in the Napa Valley of California has hosted a kind of late-summer camp for chefs.
Second-quarter U.S. installations of photovoltaic solar panels rose 17 percent from the previous quarter as increases in nonresidential and utility-scale projects offset a weakened residential solar market.
California will trail the nation's economic recovery as its once fast-growing inland areas struggle for years to come with a dearth of jobs and devastated housing markets, a report released on Tuesday said.
Four people have died from listeria contained in cantaloupes from Colorado, the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Police have confirmed that the decomposed remains found in a San Francisco Bay area canyon over the weekend are those of nursing student Michelle Le, who had been missing since May while taking a school break.
Badly decomposed human remains found Saturday near a dirt trail in Sunol, Calif., about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of San Francisco, are those of missing nursing student Michelle Le, police said.
Observations from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission suggest that the family of asteroids commonly blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs is not the culprit.
