Anti-Wall Street protesters' plans to camp in a New York park throughout the city's harsh winter were dealt a blow on Friday when the fire department confiscated six generators and about a dozen cans of fuel.
Of the different school reform measures advanced by the Obama administration, perhaps the most contentious is the push to develop rigorous methods for evaluating teachers.
About 285,000 acres of desert land in six Western States have been designated as ideal candidates for the development of solar energy projects..
President Barack Obama said at a fundraiser in California this week he has kept 60 percent of his 2008 campaign promises.
A former soldier wounded in a protest on the streets of Oakland after surviving two tours in Iraq has put a new face on the 'Occupy' movement by galvanizing veteran backing for the push against economic inequality in the United States.
A U.S. judge blocked most of a San Francisco ordinance on Thursday that required warnings about cell phone safety risks, saying it violated the First Amendment.
With the two-year anniversary of his last tournament win fast approaching, Tiger Woods is preparing for next month's Australian Open amid growing doubts over whether he can ever regain his former dominance.
Shares of Hewlett-Packard rose about 3 percent Friday after the No. 1 maker of PCs decided not to drop out of the business.
Apple's founder liked to feel special, and he devised a way to avoid attaching California plates to his Mercedes.
A team of computer security researchers recently developed a proof-of-concept 'spy' app for the iPhone 4 capable of tracking typing on a nearby keyboard using the device's native accelerometer and gyroscope. Even a basic, widely available mobile device such as the iPhone is sensitive enough to enable the app to pick up data such as whether the keystrokes come from the left or right side of the keyboard and the relative distance between punched keys.
With the upcoming trailer of Grand Theft Auto V being released Nov. 5, rumors put the game's setting in Los Angeles.
Joseph Sellers, an attorney representing the female Wal-Mart employees, said as many as 15 class actions will be filed targeting the retail giant's regional areas.
Facebook announced it is building its first European server farm in Lulea, a Swedish town about 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. This will be its first data center outside of the United States.
Occidental Petroleum Corp expects to have drilled 195 shale oil wells in its home state of California by the end of this year, although it would like to drill far more if the permitting process allowed it.
The Trojans host the Cardinal at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
IBM has announced that, for the first time in its history, it will have a woman, Virginia Ginni Rometty, run the company.
Cutting Medicaid by 5 percent would cost U.S. states $14 billion and trigger job losses in the tens of thousands by depressing spending by states, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies and others, a study said on Wednesday.
California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse.
The suspect in the Yorba Linda homicide has been arrested and identified.
Rejuvenated Australian golfer Jason Day has set himself a target of reaching world number one in the next five years following his brilliant season on the U.S. PGA Tour, a far cry from his struggles to get out of bed earlier this year when plagued by mental demons and illness.
Title insurer First American Financial Corp posted third-quarter profit that missed market estimates, hurt by higher claims and lower orders.
Doctors in Oakland, California, struggled on Wednesday to save the life of an Iraq war veteran who became a rallying cry for the Occupy Wall Street movement after he was badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police.
