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More than a hundred people from 24 states have been confirmed as infected with the deadly Listeria monocytogenes bacteria linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

Trainer Kim Lyons already had a decade of fitness experience behind her but she says the lessons she learned while working on a reality TV show shaped her professional philosophy.

For all that he achieved in his life in terms of his public image, Steve Jobs was famously not a public philanthropist, unlike his equally titanic tech rival, Microsoft’s former head Bill Gates.

Two Americans, Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, both 68, have won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy, the prize committee said on Monday.

When it came time for Cassidy Rumble to choose a college, she had a range of options thanks to great SAT scores, a solid grade point average and a stellar volunteer resume.

California will continue offering filmmakers a 25 percent tax credit under a program Gov. Jerry Brown extended on Sunday.

Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

The ongoing crisis at Yahoo may now have tempted some new parties including Singapore’s Temasek as well as Bain Capital, joining other parties said to include Facebook, Microsoft, Providence Equity Partners and Alibaba Group.

In the final weeks of his life, Michael Jackson slept with a toy doll on his bed, was so heavily drugged that he sometimes slurred his speech and his big comeback tour was plagued with problems.

California teens are no longer allowed to use tanning beds after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

Rep. Ron Paul won the Values Voter Summit's presidential straw poll, which was sponsored by the Christian conservative American Family Association and the Family Research Council.

Slideshow of NASA-themed corn mazes, which honor 50 years of human space flight.

The tipseter who reportedly got $2 million in reward money for handing over information that led to the location of Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger was apparently a former Miss Iceland, Anna Bjornsdottir. Bjornsdottir had reportedly been living in both Iceland and Santa Monica, where Bulger, 82, was living with his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, 60, according to a report from CBS station WBZ.

Shares of Apple rose 4 percent after the company announced receiving more than one million orders for the iPhone 4S in a day, nearly 70 percent more than an older version.

Moore reportedly met with a divorce lawyer on Friday; the same day the couple was seen in pubic together for the first time since Ashton's alleged affair

Prince Harry, 27, the younger brother of Prince William, arrived in California on Thursday night for two-month military-helicopter training course.

The chairman of the House oversight committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Sunday that he could issue subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this week over the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Friday, that bans any sale, trade and possession of shark fins. The bill, which will come into effect on Jan. 1, 2012, was promulgated to protect the dwindling shark population.

It is clear for many of our members two Web sites would make things more difficult, CEO Reed Hastings posted on a blog overnight. So we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.

California bans tanning bed use for all minors.

To protect youngsters from the lethally dangerous radiation used in sunbeds, California Governor Jerry Brown a bill banning the use of sunbeds for anyone under the age of 18.