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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney had a relaxing Easter this past weekend at his California beach home, dabbling in a bit of boogie boarding, Easter egg painting and tag with the kids as seen in photos that have been passed around on the Internet.

Google celebrates the 182nd anniversary of the birth of Eadweard J Muybridge, a British groundbreaking photographer who was renowned for his film-strip racehorses that captured all four of their hooves off the ground at the same time.

Just last year, Andrea Jung was among the most powerful women in the world. On Monday, Avon announced her replacement as chief executive -- Sherilyn McCoy, a 30-year veteran of Johnson & Johnson.

A new study of mothers and children in California finds that kids born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer moms.

More than 40,000 employees at AT&T Inc will keep working under the terms of an expired labor contract while their union continues negotiations with the telephone company, averting a potentially costly strike for now.

Negative attitude towards homosexuality is likely to be more pronounced among individuals who harbor unacknowledged attraction towards the same sex, and who grew up in conservative authoritarian households which forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies have found.

Before you buy the new iPad, have you figured out how you will be making use of it? While most people use the device for browsing the Internet, chatting with pals and watching movies, there are some out there who use the device for completely different purposes.

Pet owners in the US are looking at the lower-cost option of cremation rather than burial of their deceased pets as the economic downturn continues to affect them.

Pot school founder Richard Lee on Friday said he will quit Oaksterdam University, a Northern California medical marijuana training school, after a federal raid left him bankrupt.

Jordan Powers, the California teen who made national headlines because she gave up school and her family to live with her teacher boyfriend, Christopher James Hooker, 41, dumped him after he was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting another teen.

At the beginning of the year Christopher James Hooker made headlines when the 41-year-old high school teacher left his job and family to move in with 18-year-old Jordan Powers, a former student. The teacher who formally taught business and IT at Enochs High School in Modesto, California was arrested for Friday for sexual abuse of another teen dating back to 1998. Hooker was arrested for investigation of oral copulation with a minor, reported the Associated Press.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Inland Fisheries (DNR) is offering $200 gift cards for dead snakehead fish, but before you grab your fishing gear there are a couple things you should know about the fish from hell.

California artist Thomas Kinkade, one of the most popular in America, died at home on Friday from what appeared to be natural causes. A family spokesman confirmed the death with the media.

Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of Light and one of the most popular artists in America, died Friday at his California home. He was 54.

George Soros and John Paulson may have to make room for the late Tony Marohn, who possibly pulled off one of the greatest financial trades ever -- at an estate sale.

Richard Lee, the founder of a Northern California medical marijuana training school, Oaksterdam University, said he was giving up the business after a federal raid bankrupted his organization.

From the Golden State to the Sunshine State take a tour of America's flowery springtime drives.

All-you-can-fly airline Surf Air is set to take off in California this summer, but will the new model work?

Researchers at the University of Southern California have built a stable quantum computer system within a diamond, signaling a breakthrough in the scaling down of computer size with an increase in speed and performance.

Connor Penhall, the 21-year-old son of retired American motorcycle speedway racer Bruce Penhall, was killed after being struck by a car in Baldwin Park, Calif. on Wednesday.

Maryland's highest court will hear arguments involving two women who married in California and are seeking a divorce in Maryland, a state that does not allow same-sex marriages. The lesbian divorce case is the first of its kind and may set judicial precedents for gay marriage in the state.