CALIFORNIA

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.

Beaver Teeth More Than 7 Million Years Old

Rep. Ron Paul won the California straw poll on Saturday, receiving almost half of all the votes.

Searchers looking for Michelle Le found a decomposed body on a dirt trail this weekend and officials at Alameda County coroner's will now determine whether it belongs to the missing nursing student.

Seven states, including California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New York, have joined the lawsuit to stop AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA, the Justice Department said Friday. Previously, AT&T had proposed a $39 Billion deal to purchase T-Mobile.

The Indian government has reported that at least eight people died in India and Nepal, and at least three people died when a building in Kathmandu collapsed. The quake also created a number of mudslides on the outskirts of Gangtok, India, killing at least one man who was trapped inside his car.

British oil major BP remains committed to reaching its oil production targets at Iraq's huge Rumaila field and is not renegotiating contract terms, the company's chief executive Bob Dudley said on Sunday.

A search team in California looking for missing nursing student, Michelle Le, discovered a badly decomposed body on Saturday near a dirt trail in the Bay Area community of Sunol, east of Hayward, about 50 miles (80km) southeast of San Francisco, said Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.

Many California schools are barring students from classes if they haven't received a whooping cough vaccine, in accordance with a state law passed last September. Thousands of students still have not gotten the vaccine.

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann drew a rousing reception from Republicans at their California convention on Friday, raising hopes the Tea Party favorite might be able to put a faltering campaign back in gear.

Presidents, most governors and senators have to be as sterile, inoffensive, lackluster and bland as possible.

Toyota: 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid to Get 87 MPG in Electric Mode.

The fact of the matter is that violent crime in the United States has been falling across the board for at least the past five or six years.

Since March, California employers have added only a net 11,000 jobs.