Oil and natural gas company Venoco Inc raised its full-year capital expenditure forecast to $250 million from $200 million, partly due to the construction of a newly approved pipeline.
Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz resigned as a director, taking a severance package as much as $14 million after disparaging the other directors as “doofuses.”
Microsoft is expected to release Windows 8 in 2012 and the software giant has big hopes tied around the next iteration of the Windows operating system as it would be the biggest software overhaul to the operating system since Windows 95.
As the October release date is nearing for the iPhone 5, there is a renewed vigor in the rumor mills over its expected features and specifications.
Audi has teamed with Best Buddies International for the 5th Audi Best Buddies Challenge striving to engage more than 1,500 participants and raise $4 million in total donations.
Thousands of people journeyed to Lower Manhattan in New York City Sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
For Emily Yates, the worst part of serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army was the loss of control.
Actor Cliff Robertson, who won an Oscar playing a mentally disabled janitor in Charly and worked in movies ranging from PT 109 to Spider-Man 3, died in New York Saturday, the day after his 88th birthday.
After a two-day delay NASA finally launched a pair of satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday on its first mission to study the moon in unprecedented detail.
American actor, Cliff Robertson who was best known for his Oscar-winning performance as Charly Gordon in the 1968 film Charly, died of natural causes a day after his 88th birthday on Saturday in Stony Brook, N.Y., Evelyn Christel, his longtime personal secretary said.
It seems like Lady Gaga is ready for a real 'monster' in her life.
Joseph Son, who appeared in the first ‘Austin Powers’ movie, has been sentenced to life in prison in the 1990 gang rape of a Southern California woman.
A female Malayan tiger killed her mate at Texas zoo who apparently was 'involved' with the attacker as well as another older tiger. Three-year-old Seri killed her 6-year-old mate Wzui around 4 pm on Thursday in an enclosure at El Paso Zoo, zoo spokesperson Karla Martinez said on Friday.
Jordan Towers said he was unpacking a truck during a family move from Truckee, California, to the state capital of Sacramento when he heard the news that a plane had flown into New York's World Trade Center.
A bill to assist a proposed stadium project aimed at bringing the National Football League back to Los Angeles was approved by California lawmakers on Friday and sent to Governor Jerry Brown.
A federal judge has ruled that a government agency must pick up the pace in approving, rejecting species for the endangered list.
People respond preferentially to pictures of animals, according to a new study.
Apple's iPhone is the global smartphone leader and the company can still boast that its product users are also among the most satisfied. Since launching the iPhone in 2007 and as the company's highly-anticipated launch of the next version, the iPhone 5, nears, Apple has sold more than 110 million iPhones.
The patients' names, account numbers, diagnosis codes, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges were posted on Student of Fortune, a commercial homework help Web site. The information was contained in a detailed spreadsheet, which the site posted on Sept. 9, 2010, to show customers how to create a bar chart from raw data.
Power companies in Southern California restored electricity to most customers by early Friday after a massive blackout on Thursday left nearly 5 million people in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico in the dark.
Mel Gibson is reportedly making a movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee. The actor, who has been labeled an anti-Semite thanks to a number of hateful rants, will team with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas for the historical work
Amazon.com Inc's agreement to start collecting sales tax in California next year may help brick and mortar rivals compete on prices with the world's largest Internet retailer.