CALIFORNIA

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.

Boone also doesn’t think Obama is a Christian.

Clad in Republican power red, GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann had a sit-down with Jay Leno, one of many comedians whose sport it is to takes jabs at the Minnesota congresswoman.

University of California (UC) regents and other officials engaged in a debate on Thursday over whether they should raise the tuition in the coming years and discussed how to raise funds to support the budget. They proposed a long-term budget plan that included a tuition hike as much as 16 percent every year. Nevertheless, the debate did not reach any conclusion and they will not vote for the budget until November.

Solid evidence is often missing from the practice guidelines used by obstetrician-gynecologists across the U.S., a new study shows.

NASA’s Kepler telescope discovered an uncommon planet that is located some 200 light years away from Earth with two suns.

Melvin Dwork lived with the a military discharge of undesirable for nearly 70 years for being a homosexual, before the Pentagon took a step - for the first time since the repeal of don't ask, don't tell - to award him an honorable discharge.

Southern California unions and supermarket operators will negotiate through the weekend in a last-ditch bid to end an escalating Southern California supermarket labor dispute that could usher in the r1vegion's first grocery strike since 2003.

Hollywood did a bit better than the rest of California last month. The state's unemployment rate ticked up from 12 percent to 12.1 percent, with about 8,400 jobs lost during August, according to new U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.

A soon-to-be-auctioned Beatles contract for a 1965 California concert reveals that the Fab Four took a firm stand in support of the era's civil rights movement, refusing to play before a segregated audience.

Hollywood did a bit better than the rest of California last month.

Former professional basketball player Javaris Crittenton waived his right on Friday to appear before a magistrate judge in Georgia on a murder charge in the drive-by shooting death of a young mother of four.

Some students who have not been vaccinated for whooping cough were sent away from school until they got the shot.

Seven states said they would join the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust suit to bar the $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA by AT&T.

Thousands of bees swarm and attack animals, farmers.

The galaxies are about 10 billion light-years away. This gives astronomers a view of galaxies as they appeared when the universe was less than a quarter of its current age.

Four people were hospitalized and a city block closed off in Santa Ana after a swarm of aggressive bees attacked a man in a wheelchair.

Medical device maker Natus Medical Inc said it bought privately-held Embla Systems LLC for about $16.1 million in cash to expand its sleep diagnostics portfolio.