CALIFORNIA

Oakland Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu resigned from her position only hours after Mayor Jean Quan's legal adviser announced his resignation on Twitter.

Sprint Nextel announced Tuesday that it would become the first U.S. mobile carrier to offer Wireless Emergency Alerts on its mobile network.

Reports Tuesday suggest that rather than auction itself to the likes of Microsoft or Walt Disney or to a private equity investor such as Silver Lake Partners or Providence Equity Partners, Yahoo may try a PIPE.

Trapit, birthed out of the same program that delivered Apple's intelligent assistant Siri, officially launched its public beta Tuesday. The company hopes to revolutionize how people search and discover content on the Web.

In March 2010, Elliott Vanskike and his wife bought a 2,000 square-foot home in Madison, Wisconsin for $375,000, pondering the quality of life for their kids as well as the quirks that come with thousands of college kids literally on your doorstep.

Thanksgiving, the U.S. holiday that anyone who likes to eat loves to celebrate, is just a week away and experts agree there is not one perfect wine to accompany the feast, but many.

A fire broke out and was quickly extinguished Monday night in a crude distillation unit at Chevron Corp's 245,271 barrel-per-day (bpd) Richmond, California, refinery, according to notices the refinery filed with state and federal pollution regulators.

NASA is at the final stages of preparation for the launch of its most advanced Mars Rover that is set for take- off from Florida's Space Coast next week.

A new survey from the U.S. Census Bureau found that women without a high school diploma are almost four times less likely to receive paid leave after childbirth, the widest gap in 50 years.

A new Facebook virus uses clickjacking to spam friends and users with sexually offensive, violent and gory images of people, celebrities and animals.

Women who survive breast cancer after undergoing chemotherapy may also have to contend with impairments in attention, memory and planning skills, U.S. researchers said Monday.

A top adviser to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan resigned on Monday over the city's handling of anti-Wall Street demonstrations, describing a morning raid to clear a downtown protest camp as a mistake that could trigger more volatility.

Rebecca Zahau's family took her case to national TV on Monday on Dr. Phil show where they claimed that authorities didn't investigate some clues in the mansion murder.

Mayor Quan's chief legal adviser Dan Siegel has resigned in opposition to a second Occupy Oakland raid at 5 a.m. on Nov. 14. Siegel expressed solidarity with the 99 percent and called his longtime friend a city insider overrun by political wrangling and the Oakland Police Department. The morning raid resulted in 33 arrests, but protestors are planning a rally at the Plaza for 4 p.m. PST.

Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran who was severely injured in a Occupy Oakland protest in October, has been discharged from the hospital and is back home.

Members of Congress' super committee responsible for slicing $1.2 trillion from the deficit have faced an intense lobbying push since being appointed to the 12-member panel, but they all have long histories of accepting money from the industries and special interest groups clamoring for a seat at the table.

The Los Angeles premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 is on Monday night.

United Natural Foods Inc said it has recalled black bean tortillas shipped to four Safeway Inc stores in California because of possible contamination by botulism bacteria.

A '60 Minutes' investigation claims several members of Congress may have made investment decisions based on insider information.

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, have introduced a new class of drug - histone deacytalase inhibitors - meant to combat Tamoxifen resistance in patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer tumors.

Occupy Portland protesters and police confronted one another on the city's streets on Sunday, as authorities around the country try to close down encampments occupied by demonstrators for weeks.