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Authorities appealed to the public for information Tuesday after a nine-month investigation on the death of former Penthouse model, Anneka Vasta, who was found washed up on a Camp Pendleton, Calif. beach. Joggers found the model's naked body with a broken neck and back on the Marine training beach on Jan. 4, 2011. Police are still trying to establish whether Vasta's death was a suicide, accidental death or foul play. Her family vehemently denies that Vasta could have committed suic...

IBM has announced that, for the first time in its history, it will have a woman, Virginia Ginni Rometty, run the company.

Hewlett-Packard will remain the world’s No. 1 PC maker. The company decided not to spin off its Personal Systems Group after all.

Zahau's family does believe Rebecca would have taken her own life

Republican members of the deficit reduction super committee presented a plan that would shrink the budget gap by $2.2 trillion over a decade exclusively through spending cuts.

Could Carson Palmer and Terrell Owens be reunited in Oakland with the Raiders?

Days before Groupon’s expected IPO, Google introduced major changes to its Google Offers to make it a bigger juggernaut in the daily deals market.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she plans to personally monitor investigations of police misconduct following a raid on Occupy Oakland protesters on Tuesday night.

Cutting Medicaid by 5 percent would cost U.S. states $14 billion and trigger job losses in the tens of thousands by depressing spending by states, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies and others, a study said on Wednesday.

California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse.

Firefox signed a partnership with Microsoft to release a version of its Web browser with Bing as the default search engine. Is Google in trouble?

The suspect in the Yorba Linda homicide has been arrested and identified.

Rejuvenated Australian golfer Jason Day has set himself a target of reaching world number one in the next five years following his brilliant season on the U.S. PGA Tour, a far cry from his struggles to get out of bed earlier this year when plagued by mental demons and illness.

Title insurer First American Financial Corp posted third-quarter profit that missed market estimates, hurt by higher claims and lower orders.

Doctors in Oakland, California, struggled on Wednesday to save the life of an Iraq war veteran who became a rallying cry for the Occupy Wall Street movement after he was badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police.

Akamai Technologies President David Kenny quit as the company reported a 6.5 percent gain in net profit, leading to speculation he may be tapped as Yahoo’s next CEO.

Millions across the U.S. were treated to a spectacular display Monday as the Aurora Borealis dipped south to the delight of spectators across 30 states. Stargazers as far south as Arizona, New Mexico, and Alabama caught the vivid red patterns of the northern lights, which arrived approximately eight hours ahead of schedule.

Rometty could be the next Meg Whitman if she's lucky or the next Carol Bartz if she's not.

U.S. economic growth increased at its fastest in a year in the third quarter as consumers and businesses set aside fears about the recovery and stepped up spending, creating momentum that could carry into the final three months of the year.

Comet Elenin, which in August further aggravated Internet hoax following Harold Camping's May 21 Doomsday prophecies early this year, is no more, NASA said Tuesday.

Economic growth likely gathered steam in the third quarter as consumers and businesses set aside fears and stepped up spending, creating momentum that is expected to carry into the final three months of the year.