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The FBI conducted a dramatic raid today on a California solar company, Solyndra, that received a loan of $527 million from the Federal Financing Bank (FFB), a subsidiary of the U.S. Treasury. The FBI raid followed the filing of Solyndra’s bankruptcy yesterday.

Imagine, for a moment, that some errant instinct prompted you to want to watch an independent film called Danielle Staub Raw, which features the erstwhile Real Housewife of New Jersey engaged in certain X-rated acts. You probably wouldn’t want anyone to know that you were spending your free time watching Danielle Staub Raw. And you might prefer not paying for the movie. So it’s not too tough to discern the motivations of the more than 5,000 people who illegally downloaded the film anonymously t...

A massive power outage triggered by human error left well over a million people without electricity in Southern California and parts of Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, power utilities said, warning service might not be restored until the next day.

San Diego-based power outage affecting 1.4 million customers

A massive power outage left well over a million people without electricity in Southern California and parts of Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, San Diego Gas and Electric said, warning service might not be restored until the next day.

SAP AG agreed to plead guilty to unspecified charges in a criminal case involving unauthorized access to computers maintained by software rival Oracle Corp, according to a court filing.

The San Diego power outage has left many residents, businesses, and government bodies without electricity (or running on backup generators).

Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana made major contributions toward increasing the national average. Each of these states recorded their hottest summers ever, with the average summer temperature in Texas being 86.8 degrees. In Oklahoma, the average was 86.5 degrees.

An ex-friend of Michelle Le, the nursing student of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center on Hesperian Boulevard in Hayward who has been missing for more than three months, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering Le.

An invisible planet that has not yet been glimpsed has been discovered by scientists using NASA's crafty Kepler spacecraft.

It's never been seen before, after all it is invisible, but scientists have discovered a new planet with the help of NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

2011 has been an unprecedented year for extreme weather, and a new report links the meteorological fury to the long arc of climate change.

California lawmakers rushed to write a bill to give Amazon.com Inc a one-year reprieve from collecting certain sales taxes in exchange for dropping its ballot measure campaign to undo the tax, aides said on Thursday.

Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb has acquired a 5.1 percent stake in Yahoo and demanded the resignation of Chairman Roy Bostock and a complete shakeup.

A man dressed in a Gumby costume attempted to rob a California 7-Eleven.

In the world of animated TV, it's no stretch to say that good-natured Gumby is far down the list of characters that would commit armed robbery.

Google said it has bought Zagat Surveys, the online restaurant rating and reviewer, to bolster its search service. The deal clearly will augment its move into smartphones, coming after its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility.

New York City alone could suffer damage as high as $20 billion if it suffered direct effects of an earthquake as large as the Aug. 23 earthquake, Eqecat determined.

Google, moving into the smartphone battles, has allied with Taiwan’s HTC in battling Apple over alleged patent infringement.

A former friend of Michele Le, a Northern California nursing student missing for more than three month, was arrested Wednesday in connection with Le's disappearance.

Warning sky gazers: Equip yourselves with umbrellas and other protective gears later this month and in early October as a massive, 7-ton defunct NASA satellite is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and will possibly rain down debris on our planet as it disintegrates during re-entry.