The city of Oakland is set to hold the country's first marijuana street fair this weekend in order to educate the public about the medical uses of the plant.
Don't let the recession get you down: Vintage automobiles that belonged to celebrities are on display.
Jury unable to reach verdict.
UCLA Chris Jeon decided he wanted something a little different for his summer vacation.
America's nuclear power plants are more vulnerable to earthquakes causing catastrophic disasters than previously thought, according to an analysis of government data.
When the U.S. went to war with al-Qaida almost a decade ago after the terrorist organization launched a deadly attack against the U.S., killing thousands and taking down New York's World Trade Center towers, the contest seemed un-winnable at times. Over the past decade, some pundits and experts even labeled it that -- the un-winnable war. But now that the U.S. has reportedly killed Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's second-in-command in Pakistan last month, and largely disbanded the organization...
It has been almost a decade since Katik Porter, 38, seen her son, but she came forward and made contacted with child protection services and asked that she be made a part of court proceedings regarding his custody, according to Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.
The Alaska quake on Friday registered a magnitude-7.1 and sparked a tsunami warning south-east of the remote Aleutian Islands.
Bono defends Steve Jobs for supporting charities
Obama administration lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to vacate a judgment declaring Don't Ask, Don't Tell unconstitutional now that the ban on openly gay men and women in the military is about to be repealed.
Demand in Germany and the United States, among the world's biggest solar markets, has failed to improve strongly so far this quarter, SolarWorld's chief executive said.
A new study by UC Berkeley and Italian researchers may have solved a decades-long mystery behind the source of a tree-killing fungus that affected six of the world's seven continents.
A California man who hacked into hundreds of women’s and teenage girls' computers, for extorting sexually explicit videos and photos from them, has been sentenced to six years in prison.
NASA's Mars Exploration Robotic Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater, and the first rock it examined itself is creating waves among astronomers.
The parents of a Southern California man who accuse police of killing their son with a Taser after he honked at a patrol car have sued the sheriff's department and county.
History typically repeats itself. The finest example of this saying came from Apple whose iPhone 5 prototype is said to be lost in a bar. Reports of the loss of an iPhone prototype, the second instance in a year and a half, has created suspicion that the entire event could be a publicity stunt by Apple to market the device.
Longer-term, the CVS story remains enviable: CVS has helped transform the drug store sector from a neighborhood-oriented, proprietor-owned sector in to a methodical, scalable, profitable corporate business model.
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles, California Thursday around 1:45 p.m. The quake was felt across Los Angeles County, but so far no damage has been reported.
A judge said he may have to declare a mistrial in the murder trial of Brandon McInerney, who is charged with killing gay classmate Lawrence King in 2008, if jurors do not come to verdict.
Sprint is a fan of the DOJ's move to file a lawsuit against the AT&T-T-Mobile merger.
A new trend in employment law, California companies have recently been experiencing a barrage of meal break lawsuits, challenging state labor rules and the extent to which an employer must provide time to rest.
A Windows Phone 7 user filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft this week, claiming the operating systems camera software ignores users' requests to disable location tracking.
