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Vanessa Bryant is ending her decade-long marriage to Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, as she filed for divorce on Friday. In the absence of a prenuptial agreement, she presumably is entitled to half his fortune, which is estimated to be a whopping $360 million.

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A northern California judge has rejected the state's new protocol for lethal injections affecting death penalties. Judge Fay D'Opal, a Marin County Superior Court official, said correction officials had failed to explain why the single injection method, used in some other states, was not considered in the new rules; the current standard is a three drug injection method.

California's Stanford University, one of the top engineering schools in the United States, said on Friday it had dropped out of the bidding to build an applied sciences and engineering college campus in New York City.

Grammy-winning R&B singer Etta James is terminally ill, her live-in physician said in an interview this week that confirmed reports of the singer's fading health.

Home-run king Barry Bonds avoided a prison sentence on Friday over a single criminal conviction related to an investigation of steroids in sports, a punishment one prosecutor called a slap on the wrist.

Two playoff hopefuls battle it out on Sunday when the Oakland Raiders (7-6) host the Detroit Lions (8-5) at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in a pivotal matchup for both teams.

Shares of Zynga, the online gaming developer linked to Facebook, closed at $9.50 Friday, 50 cents below their initial public offering price Thursday as the company raised $1 billion in the biggest IPO since Google.

Iconic California surf band The Beach Boys will reunite in 2012 to release a new album and embark on a 50-date worldwide tour celebrating their 50th anniversary, the band said on Friday.

Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.

French silicon company Soitec SA said it will invest more than $150 million in a manufacturing facility in California to produce concentrator photovoltaic modules (CPV) for the U.S. renewable-energy market.

Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy Holdings made its second foray into solar energy in as many weeks, saying on Friday it will buy a 49 percent stake in an Arizona power plant from NRG Energy Inc.

AT&T also has 900,000 phones with controversial software installed.

A young couple train-hopping across the country has been found dead under a mound of coal at a Florida power plant, reports Yahoo News.

he Beach Boys are back in town to celebrate their 50-year anniversary with a brand new album and tour, which will kick off at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz Fest, the band announced on their Website.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival, which has already announced awards for a number of contenders deemed likely to land Oscar nominations, has now decided to honor an actor who's been inexplicably passed over by most voters so far.

Just like the software Apple makes for its many computing devices, Steve Jobs, the bestselling autobiography of Apple's co-founder and cultural icon is ready for an update.

Apple has reportedly been receiving its A5 chips from a Samsung factory based in Texas. If the relationship holds, there's a great chance Apple's future chips will also be Texas-made.

Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.

Due to the non-encrypted ramdisks, the filesystem keys are now obtainable. Though these mainframes are wide open inspection-wise, yet security-wise they are not so. The present finding will help hackers get more access to the 4S files and Siri files.

The A5 processor used in Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is reportedly manufactured by rival Korean electronics giant Samsung from its factory in Austin.