CALIFORNIA

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 has struck just north of the city of El Cerrito, Calif.

The performance was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and boasted a 20-member cast.

The nationwide average of gasoline prices are going north moving towards $4 mark per gallon.

Rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose, best known for his work as a member of the band Montrose, died on Saturday, after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 64.

Ford Motor's Focus Electric, the company's first electric passenger car, has been crowned by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the certification of the most fuel-efficient five-passenger vehicle in the country.

Star Wars designer Ralph McQuarrie died on Saturday at the age of 82, plunging the world of science fiction and fantasy into sadness, as Twitter fans express how his work fueled their dreams, imagination and fantasies.

Brad Pitt and George Clooney will be featured in the star-studded play 8 on Saturday, which examines the overturning of the controversial Proposition 8 law in California.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and two of her sisters, Khloe and Kourtney, have been slapped with a $5 million lawsuit alleging they and the makers of QuickTrim diet pills falsely touted the product's effectiveness for losing weight.

As GDC 2012 nears, here are the top five announcements video game insiders say are likely to be made by various companies at the 2012 Game Developers Conference.

Yelp stock was traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for the first time on Friday, March 2. The stock, which is listed under the ticker symbol YELP, opened at $22.01 a share and quickly rose in value to $24.40 a share in just a few hours. The question now is whether YELP stock will continue to rise in the foreseeable future, or if the online company's stock value will soon begin to drop.

Blake Lively was granted a restraining order on Friday against her stalker, obsessed fan Sergei Mifle who claims he has a metaphysical connection with the actress.

A study says Roberts Court justices are better educated than their predecessors, have spent more time in academia and serving on the federal appeals courts. But is that kind of experience necessarily a good thing?

A young man who Whitney Houston reportedly considered as her unofficially adopted son could soon no longer be welcomed at the singer's Atlanta home if Cissy Houston gets her way. TMZ is reporting that Houston's mother believes he is a bad influence on Bobbi Kristina Brown.

Ryan Miller has regained his Veznia winning form and has the Sabres smack dab in the middle of the Eastern Conference playoff race.

Shares of Yelp (NYSE: YELP), the San Francisco-based review website, soared 61 percent in their first hour of trading Friday.

Jordan Powers, an 18-year-old California-native, made headlines across the nation after news spread that the young girl had moved in with her former high school teacher. That said high school teacher is James Hooker, 41, who left his wife and children to move into an apartment with the young woman. He quit his job after going public with his love for Powers.

Brazilian model and former Victoria's Secret angel, Gisele Bundchen is the new face of Versace Spring Summer campaign featuring a series of glamorous shots for the Italian label.

Brad Pitt has joined a star-studded cast in the play 8 that will premiere in L.A on Saturday in an aim to advocate for gay-marriage rights.

Shares of Apple (NYSE: AAPL) spent all of Friday above the $500 billion market capitalization mark as they also set a new record of $545.18.

Jordan Powers, 18, has moved in with her 41-year-old former teacher James Hooker. Her Modesto, California community responds with shock and disbelief.

Sales of General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Volt rallied back in February from early-year lows, as the company sold more than 1,000 units of its hybrid electric plug-in vehicle last month.