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The final coroner's report on Whitney Houston revealed that her death was due to drowning caused by heart disease and cocaine use.

The ban on capital punishment -- life without the chance for parole will become the state's maximum punishment -- will apply only to future inmates, not those already on death row.

Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a conservative Islamist candidate for the Egyptian presidency, is accusing opponents' supporters of forging California public records indicating that his mother was an American citizen.

Angels outfielder Torii Hunter had guns draw on him outside of his home on Wednesday.

Recent photos of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson have been released by the California Department of Corrections. Manson, 77, has a parole hearing next week, having been denied parole 11 times since 1978.

A former nursing student was charged with murder and attempted murder on Wednesday in a shooting rampage that killed seven people and wounded three others this week at a small, Christian college he once attended in California.

A U.S. judge largely sided with Apple on Wednesday over how several technical terms will be defined in its patent fight against Samsung over smartphones and tablets.

Splurging on a vacation home shortly after the housing market meltdown was not an easy decision for Kathy and Dan Nikolai.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the House of Representatives, said the Affordable Care Act was written in an iron clad way to withstand constitutional review.

Monday's raids on a prominent Oakland medical marijuana advocate's businesses and properties underscored the federal-local divide over the legality and utility of cannabis.

Today is National Tell A Lie Day. What better way to celebrate this April 4 holiday than to take a look at some of the best -- or worst -- whoppers told by the five men who are running for the U.S. presidency? Romney, Obama, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul... no one is exempt.

Japan plans to build the nation's largest geothermal power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, the location of the massive earthquake and tsunami which led to last year's nuclear disaster.

Medical marijuana advocates on Tuesday vowed to reopen a San Francisco-area college devoted to cannabis cultivation and known as the Princeton of Pot a day after federal agents shut down the school in a raid.

Lisa Robin Kelly, known for her role as Laurie Foreman on That 70s show, was arrested on Saturday night on felony charges of corporal injury on a spouse. The 42-year-old actress was released on $50,000 bail. Kelly isn't the first cast member of the former hit Fox sitcom to land in some hot water. Take a look at the history of some of the other stars of That 70s show.

Federal agents raided Oaksterdam University -- America's first cannabis college -- Monday, as well as the home of founder Richard Lee, confiscating bags of medical marijuana, cannabis plants and business documents. Here are five things to know about the medical marijuana entrepreneur:

The Matt Cain signing is being trumpeted as a success by the Giants front office but what effect will it have on Tim Lincecum's future?

Learn more about One L. Goh, the Oikos University shooting suspect detained Monday by the Oakland Police Department.

Police said the victims were six women and one man ranging in age from their 20s to 40s. Authorities confirmed the arrest of One Goh, a Korean native and naturalized U.S. citizen who is believed to have been a student at Oikos University.

The shooting incident at Oikos University has occurred just in days before the fifth anniversary of Virginia Tech Massacre.

As Oakland, California, reels from the Oikos University tragedy that hit the private Christian school's campus Monday morning, here's a breakdown of the worst school massacres of all time.

Oaksterdam University, the California school which professes to deliver quality training for the cannabis industry, was raided Monday by federal agents, the institution tweeted.