Diabetes does not just take its toll on the heart, a new study in Japan has found. It dramatically increases the risks of developing Alzheimer's or dementia in later life.
A federal magistrate has ordered more negotiations between the CEOs of Oracle and Google in an effort to prevent a trial on Oracle’s claims of patent infringement.
Authorities say the badly decomposed remains found in a Bay Area canyon section of Alameda County, Calif. are those of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student who disappeared May 27 while taking a school break.
Old, poor and Hispanic women are all more likely to have lymph nodes under the armpit removed unnecessarily during breast cancer surgery, a new study finds.
Video recordings of the trial over California's gay marriage ban should be unsealed, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
Twenty-two Americans ranging from a radio journalist to a sports trainer received no-strings-attached genius grants worth $500,000 each, a charitable foundation announced on Tuesday.
For 25 years, Cakebread Cellars in the Napa Valley of California has hosted a kind of late-summer camp for chefs.
Second-quarter U.S. installations of photovoltaic solar panels rose 17 percent from the previous quarter as increases in nonresidential and utility-scale projects offset a weakened residential solar market.
California will trail the nation's economic recovery as its once fast-growing inland areas struggle for years to come with a dearth of jobs and devastated housing markets, a report released on Tuesday said.
Four people have died from listeria contained in cantaloupes from Colorado, the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Police have confirmed that the decomposed remains found in a San Francisco Bay area canyon over the weekend are those of nursing student Michelle Le, who had been missing since May while taking a school break.
Badly decomposed human remains found Saturday near a dirt trail in Sunol, Calif., about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of San Francisco, are those of missing nursing student Michelle Le, police said.
Observations from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission suggest that the family of asteroids commonly blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs is not the culprit.
Technophiles are waiting with bated breath for iPhone 5, which Apple is expected to launch in October.
The vaccine against whooping cough will weaken after only about three years as per a new study which is adding support to school rules requiring kids to get the vaccination periodically.
A U.S. appeals court reversed an order freezing enforcement outside of Ecuador of an $18 billion damages award against Chevron Corp over pollution in the Amazonian rain forest.
Two Marines aboard a helicopter were killed on Monday when the aircraft crashed during a training mission at a Southern California military base, officials said.
A badly decomposed body, which is suspected as the missing nursing student Michelle Le's remains by the authority, was found in a bushy area of Alameda County of the San Francisco Bay Area late Saturday morning.
Starbucks is being sued after a father and his five-year-old daughter found a hidden spy camera secretly taping them in a bathroom at a branch in Washington D.C.
Hurricane Irene destroyed many pumpkin patches when it crippled the Northeastern states leading to a pumpkin shortage that could possibly double prices for Halloween.
Database giant Oracle is scheduled to announce first quarter results Tuesday. If they maintain the recent pattern, they’ll likely beat analyst estimates of 44 cents a share carried by Zacks.
The Toyota Plug-in Hyrbrid Prius just announced by the company will be the first alternative to pure gasoline combustion automotive engines that provides the best of plug-in and hybrid combined in one.
