CALIFORNIA

NBA Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has a new nickname, "Vino," since he is 34 years old and still a top player in the league.

Monster Beverage has responded to a lawsuit that claims a 14-year-old girl died from ingesting two energy drinks within a 24-hour period.

Brody Jenner has joined the cast of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" for its eighth season that is set to air in June.

An outrageous story about a nurse refusing to give a dying woman CPR after calling 911 in California has captivated the nation.

Mexico's manufacturing boom continued with Superior Industries International announcing a factory in the nation.

Add the privately held Evernote Corp. to the growing list of U.S.-based information-technology outfits targeted by hackers this year.

The anticipated sequestration process began to take effect hours ago. Here is what's been sliced and diced in Washington already.

Reports that Jay Leno may retire have surfaced as "The Tonight Show" host has lost younger viewers to Jimmy Kimmel.

Kobe Bryant and the Lakers still have a good chance of making the playoffs.

United States budget sequestration cuts might have considerable implications, but American car buyers seem unfazed -- at least for now.

Great white sharks will now be protected under California’s Endangered Species Act starting on Friday. The state Fish and Game Commission approved the designation in February, forbidding the hunting, pursuing, catching, capturing or killing of the animal.

A group of House Democrats warned that they will vote against any deal that includes cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

After a French Montana concert, people opened fire outside the rapper's tour bus in a drive-by shooting, leaving one dead.

Obama and congressional leaders are meeting today about the 2013 sequester cuts, but what are the options on the table?

The Obama administration is officially backing the Supreme Court bid to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California.

A cut to food safety inspections means there will be fewer opportunities to expose horrific animal abuse on some livestock farms.

A California winery submerged four cases of cabernet sauvignon in Charleston Harbor to see how the ocean affects the aging of the wine.

The Violence Against Women Act has been reauthorized. But nine Republicans did not even want to consider the GOP-sponsored version of the bill.

Rising royalty costs prompt U.S. online streaming music company Pandora Media to limit free mobile listening.

Border security between the United States and Mexico has forced drug cartels to come up with new ways to get drugs across the border. Police confiscated a makeshift marijuana cannon that was used to send marijuana into California.

Debi Austin, anti-smoking advocate, passed away at the age of 62. Austin starred in the famous "Voicebox" ad where she smoked a cigarette through a hole in her throat.