CALIFORNIA

Death is coming this Friday with Warner Bros.' Final Destination 5 film hitting theaters in 3D where "Death Has Never Been Closer".

Tagging the HIV virus with a new viral vector; the subject of a new research has aroused much interest in the quest to find the ultimate cure for HIV induced AIDS. Healing victims of HIV could perhaps find a new meaning from this new study conducted by Dr Pin Wang of the USC (University of South California) Viterbi School of Engineering.

An aircraft capable of reaching speeds up to 13,000 miles per hour is scheduled to be tested by the Pentagon on Thursday.

The Defense Department will test its super-fast aircraft that can travel at a blistering speed of 13,000 mph, or twenty times faster than the speed of sound.

A former manager of Finish Line, an athletic footwear store at the Great Mall, has been accused of secretly videotaping women in the restroom and dressing room on Tuesday.

Who is the most hated person in the United States? It's Casey Anthony, according to a poll. The Florida woman, who was charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter and later acquitted, is voted as the person most disliked in the nation.

San Francisco interim mayor Ed Lee met with cold reception from his rivals and audience when he appeared on Monday night's mayoral debate at the Castro Theatre.

Moody's Investors Service assigned on Wednesday its 'Aa3' rating to $1 billion of California Department of Water Resources bonds scheduled for sale next week to help the department replace variable-rate debt.

After a nearly three year journey, NASA's Mars rover "Opportunity" has reached its destination at a edge of a crater-rim , sending back photographs of never seen before rocks.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian sued retailer Old Navy on Wednesday to force the clothing store chain to quit using a look-alike model in advertisements the celebrity claims hijack her fame.

The bankruptcy sale of Crystal Cathedral, the glass-walled Orange County church known for its "Hour of Power" broadcasts, has touched off a bidding war between a Roman Catholic diocese and a local university.

Urban poet Philip Levine was named on Wednesday as the 18th poet laureate by the Library of Congress, which praised his writing for plain-spoken lyricism about working class Americans in Detroit.

Casey Anthony, the Florida woman who was found not guilty recently of murdering her two year-old daughter, is the most hated person in America, according to a new poll that tracks public perceptions of celebrities.

Customs agents have seized three gallons of a chemical used to make the date rape drug GHB at Los Angeles International Airport amid a surge in illegal shipments of the intoxicant, authorities said on Wednesday.

Nine-year old boy from Philadelphia, Ryan White, who became the victim of a hit-and-run incident last week in downtown San Francisco, is recovering and is out of danger, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) forecast slim revenue growth this quarter, a pleasant surprise to investors bracing for a sharp pullback in global technology spending that sent its shares soaring 10 percent.

California's latest monthly revenue report shows revenue weaker than expected even before the stock market, a key source of revenue for the state, began sliding in response to Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt, anxiety about Europe's finances and the risk of the U.S. economy slipping back into recession.

Cisco Systems said earnings beat estimates but revenue pace will stay slow

A congresswoman on Wednesday requested more information on security company McAfee's report detailing a five-year hacking campaign that breached 72 organizations globally.

The Pentagon will test a super fast, unmanned aircraft that can travel at Mach 20 -twenty times faster than the speed of sound, up to 13,000 miles per hour. The Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will test the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) Thursday morning from Vandenberg Air Force in California. A Minotaur IV Lite rocket will lift off with the HTV-2, and release the aircraft after penetrating the atmosphere.

The Defense Research Projects Agency is testing Thursday an unmanned aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound, up to 13,000 miles per hour, and send a missile to a target within an hour. If successful, it will be fast enough to travel from coast to coast (between Los Angeles and New York) in just 12 minutes.