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Scott Peterson filed his automatic appeal of his 2004 death sentence to the California Supreme Court, maintaining that he had nothing to do with the murder of his wife Laci Peterson and his unborn son.

Justin Bieber was given a ticket early Friday morning after he was pulled over by two Los Angeles police for driving over 100 miles per hour on a freeway is his chrome drenched Fisker Karma sports car, TMZ reported.

A new camera setup devised by UCLA engineers can pick out one breast cancer cell among a million blood cells.

A former Oakland Raider has been charged with three murders.

A fisherman in California got quite the surprise when he hailed in an estimated 800-pound shark on Monday. The fish was so heavy that it had to be dragged back to the dock.

Since its May 17 pricing at $38 a share, the stunning collapse in the value of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) the No. 1 social networking site has made history ? for its sheer size and magnitude.The IPO market remains weak.

Taylor Swift may have found herself a new beau to sing love songs about. She was spotted getting nice and cozy with Patrick Schwarzenegger while hanging out with the Kennedy brood for the Fourth of July holiday.

A slew of crazed, often cannibalistic, attacks across the United States has left many people concerned about a so-called zombie apocalypse. But a craven new assault in Corpus Christi, Texas, -- has ignited fears about a vampire attacker.

Who needs to swim at a beach on the coast when you can frolic in some of the United States' most scenic countryside?

A troubling new report shows that TV production in the Los Angeles area is in a state of rapid decline, with less than half of all TV dramas now filmed in the L.A. area.

An unidentified man might have coined the phrase of the summer on Friday when he shouted This is my beach...before driving his car into the ocean.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, may introduce a smaller version of the iPad to compete with products from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, and Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the No. 1 e-retailer and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), reports said.

Battles with drugs and alcohol have long plagued Melanie Griffith, but the actress, who returned to the stage Sunday for a week-long stint in No Way Around But Through in Burbank, Calif., said it was her two daughters who helped her overcome her struggles.

Residents in San Diego were disappointed on the 4th of July when the Big Bay Boom 2012 Independence Day show lasted for just about 15 seconds after a technical glitch resulted in all of the city's fireworks ignited at once in an incident caught on video.

Two of real estate's biggest landlords are gearing up for more acquisitions in moves that could help stabilize local housing markets.

Who stole the pot-laced cookies from the cookie jar? A three-year-old Southern California boy was rushed to the hospital when his family realized he had gotten into a family member's secret stash of chocolate-chip pot-laced cookies a day earlier.

If you're on fertility treatments, you may want to nix that triple-latte.

The government says it's taking shark fin off the state menu, but the rest of the country still hasn't lost its taste for the delicacy.

California, the state with the second most foreclosures by volume, has passed one of the strongest laws in the country seeking to protect homeowners from improperly losing their homes.

In bat species that tend to hibernate alone, population declines from white-nose syndrome in small colonies were much less severe, according to new research.

The wait is finally over for people in the U.S. who were looking forward to Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3. Sprint made the handset available for in-store purchases from July 1, while AT&T announced that it would be selling the phone in its stores from July 6. But if a recent note by one industry analyst is to be believed, it won't be an easy road for this successor of the S2.