CALIFORNIA

It seems like Lady Gaga is ready for a real 'monster' in her life.

Joseph Son, who appeared in the first ‘Austin Powers’ movie, has been sentenced to life in prison in the 1990 gang rape of a Southern California woman.

A female Malayan tiger killed her mate at Texas zoo who apparently was 'involved' with the attacker as well as another older tiger. Three-year-old Seri killed her 6-year-old mate Wzui around 4 pm on Thursday in an enclosure at El Paso Zoo, zoo spokesperson Karla Martinez said on Friday.

Jordan Towers said he was unpacking a truck during a family move from Truckee, California, to the state capital of Sacramento when he heard the news that a plane had flown into New York's World Trade Center.

A bill to assist a proposed stadium project aimed at bringing the National Football League back to Los Angeles was approved by California lawmakers on Friday and sent to Governor Jerry Brown.

A federal judge has ruled that a government agency must pick up the pace in approving, rejecting species for the endangered list.

People respond preferentially to pictures of animals, according to a new study.

Apple's iPhone is the global smartphone leader and the company can still boast that its product users are also among the most satisfied. Since launching the iPhone in 2007 and as the company's highly-anticipated launch of the next version, the iPhone 5, nears, Apple has sold more than 110 million iPhones.

The patients' names, account numbers, diagnosis codes, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges were posted on Student of Fortune, a commercial homework help Web site. The information was contained in a detailed spreadsheet, which the site posted on Sept. 9, 2010, to show customers how to create a bar chart from raw data.

Power companies in Southern California restored electricity to most customers by early Friday after a massive blackout on Thursday left nearly 5 million people in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico in the dark.

Mel Gibson is reportedly making a movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee. The actor, who has been labeled an anti-Semite thanks to a number of hateful rants, will team with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas for the historical work

Amazon.com Inc's agreement to start collecting sales tax in California next year may help brick and mortar rivals compete on prices with the world's largest Internet retailer.

The FBI raided the home of Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison on Thursday, the same day it searched the solar energy firm's Fremont, Calif., headquarters.

A 9/11 conspiracy film festival called 9/11 Reclaiming the Truth, Reclaiming our Future, is underway in California, questioning the official version of the events of Sept. 11.

Now that Yahoo is searching for a new CEO and activist investor Daniel Loeb’s Third Point is trying to stir the pot, here are some things that former CEO Carol Bartz could have done to keep her job:

Yahoo’s summary firing of CEO Carol Bartz knocked out one of the most visible women CEOs but also showed a phenomenon called the “glass cliff,” a technology professional women’s association said.

More than 1.4 million people plunged into darkness during a power outage that encompassed southern California and beyond can blame an electric utility employee in Arizona.

The California Power outage that hit the San Diego area on Thursday afternoon was the most widespread in the history of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), the utility that provides power to San Diego County and southern Orange County.

Astronomers have outdone themselves by doing the (seemingly) unimaginable: Discovering an invisible exoplanet.

Complete coverage of Thursday's Blackout in California, Arizona and Mexico, which stalled flights and cut power to five million people.

Stanford University’s hospital in California on Thursday has confirmed that a medical privacy breach has led to the online posting of electronic medical records of 20,000 emergency rooms patients.