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An 18-foot-long, grey shark was spotted in the water off Cambria coast. The authorities have posted warning signs at the beach and have asked beachgoers to be careful.

Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are tied in the race for the Republican presidential nomination among Californians, a University of Southern California/Los Angeles Times poll showed.

In more than 30 years since smash hit song Heart of Glass took Blondie from new wave upstarts to mainstream stars, frontwoman Deborah Harry has transformed herself many times, younger members have joined the band and albums have gone from vinyl to digital.

He leaves behind a young daughter.

As America nears a 10th anniversary memorial for the deadly 9/11 attacks from Al Qaeda, the U.S. is close to proclaiming victory in the war against the terrorist organization. In the latest development, with help from the U.S., Pakistan's main intelligence agency has captured a top al Qaeda commander suspected of planning attacks on American oil pipelines, tankers and other key economic targets.

Here are numbers showing job losses.

The Free Speech Coalition, a Canoga Park-based national trade organization to the adult entertainment industry, has recommended that the moratorium on filming be lifted because the first test looks as if it was a false positive.

Kofax Plc posted a higher full-year profit even as revenue growth in the second half of the year slowed due to longer sales cycles and decision making, and the company said it expected these challenges to continue.

TechAmerica reports technology employment is falling. Who will make products consumers crave?

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the latest frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, has taken more radical stances than perhaps any other candidate. Here are the top 10 positions that may make it difficult for him to compete in the general election.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ), which recently decided to discontinue webOS devices including TouchPad, is splitting its webOS division into two, according to a Wall Street analyst.

An unemployed Cincinnati man died after a tooth infection spread to his brain. Kyle Willis, a nephew of musician Bootsy Collins, was suffering from a painful toothache for the past two weeks.

Downtown Oakland was bustling with activity this weekend as people gathered to attend a marijuana street fair, touted as the first in the nation.

Astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California has claimed that their robotic telescope has detected what could be regarded as the supernova of a generation - a type la of supernova that resulted from the violent explosion of an old star twenty-one million years ago.

A small plane crashed near a rural California community on Sunday then burst into flames, killing one person and igniting a fast-moving brush fire that destroyed one home and evacuated almost 30 others.

A new day, a new iPhone 5 rumor circles around the internet. Now, the latest from the rumor mill is that iPhone 5 would come up with a 4-inch screen to take on Android smartphones.

San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) said it has helped Apple investigators conduct a consensual search in the house of a man living in Bernal Heights for a lost item (believed to be iPhone 5 prototype) dismissing the possibility that the Apple employees could have masqueraded as police officers.

Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong apparently didn't want to pull up his low-riding rock trousers, so he was booted off a Southwest plane.The 39-year-old Green Day rock musician sent a message on Twitter after he was not allowed to take a flight because his pants were too low, CBS News reported. In California, Armstrong was trying to fly from Oakland to Burbank when Southwest booted off the Green Day front man because his sagging pants were too low.

In less than one year the second case of HIV has been detected in the porn industry. The first one being in December of the male porn star Derrick Burts, who tested positive for HIV.

Attorneys for 22-year-old Brian Hogan and 28-year-old Sage Wallower entered the pleas on Thursday on behalf of the two men, who weren't in the San Mateo County courtroom.

A California solar company said on Friday it plans to build a $600 million silicon factory in Mississippi that will be backed by $75 million in incentives from the state.