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.
Technophiles are waiting with bated breath for iPhone 5, which Apple is expected to launch in October.
The vaccine against whooping cough will weaken after only about three years as per a new study which is adding support to school rules requiring kids to get the vaccination periodically.
A U.S. appeals court reversed an order freezing enforcement outside of Ecuador of an $18 billion damages award against Chevron Corp over pollution in the Amazonian rain forest.
Two Marines aboard a helicopter were killed on Monday when the aircraft crashed during a training mission at a Southern California military base, officials said.
Starbucks is being sued after a father and his five-year-old daughter found a hidden spy camera secretly taping them in a bathroom at a branch in Washington D.C.
Hurricane Irene destroyed many pumpkin patches when it crippled the Northeastern states leading to a pumpkin shortage that could possibly double prices for Halloween.
The Toyota Plug-in Hyrbrid Prius just announced by the company will be the first alternative to pure gasoline combustion automotive engines that provides the best of plug-in and hybrid combined in one.
Homebuilder Lennar Corp (LEN.N) posted a 31 percent drop in quarterly profit on fewer new home deliveries and higher costs.
French engineering company Schneider Electric SA (SCHN.PA) has delayed the roughly $1.4 billion auction of its sensors business because of turbulence in financing markets, people familiar with the matter said.
Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons remained in talks with the union representing 62,000 Southern California supermarket workers as the deadline for canceling their labor contract passed on Sunday evening.
Contract negotiations continue between grocery chain Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons and its workers, who on Thursday issued a 72-hour notice to cancel a contract extension after the deadline passed on Sunday evening.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded the 2010-2011 Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday
Researchers have unearthed a pair of fossilized teeth on the BLM land in northeast Oregon, which suggest that the American Beaver has changed very little in the last 7 million years.