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The Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed its sixth ever great white shark on exhibit.

A top California lawmaker unveiled legislation on Friday to help advance a proposal for building a new stadium in downtown Los Angeles to bring the National Football League back to the second-largest U.S. city.

Bipartisan committee will meet same day as Obama's economy speech.

The city of Oakland is set to hold the country's first marijuana street fair this weekend in order to educate the public about the medical uses of the plant.

Don't let the recession get you down: Vintage automobiles that belonged to celebrities are on display.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has cast himself as the true conservative among Republican presidential candidates, but his record on immigration could tell a different tale.

The photo of Juan Osornio Martinez, a 55-year old homeless man who is suspected in a woman’s death has been released.

Jury unable to reach verdict.

UCLA Chris Jeon decided he wanted something a little different for his summer vacation.

Investigators have concluded that the death of Rebecca Zahau, who was found hanging naked at millionaire Jonah Shacknai's mansion in Coronado, Calif., in July was a suicide, the dead woman's sister said on Thursday.

America's nuclear power plants are more vulnerable to earthquakes causing catastrophic disasters than previously thought, according to an analysis of government data.

When the U.S. went to war with al-Qaida almost a decade ago after the terrorist organization launched a deadly attack against the U.S., killing thousands and taking down New York's World Trade Center towers, the contest seemed un-winnable at times. Over the past decade, some pundits and experts even labeled it that -- the un-winnable war. But now that the U.S. has reportedly killed Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's second-in-command in Pakistan last month, and largely disbanded the organization...

Officials have ruled the death of Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of San Diego billionaire Jonah Shacknai, as a suicide, but family members say they believe she was murdered and they have an inkling who did it.

It has been almost a decade since Katik Porter, 38, seen her son, but she came forward and made contacted with child protection services and asked that she be made a part of court proceedings regarding his custody, according to Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.

The Alaska quake on Friday registered a magnitude-7.1 and sparked a tsunami warning south-east of the remote Aleutian Islands.

Bono defends Steve Jobs for supporting charities

Obama administration lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to vacate a judgment declaring Don't Ask, Don't Tell unconstitutional now that the ban on openly gay men and women in the military is about to be repealed.

Demand in Germany and the United States, among the world's biggest solar markets, has failed to improve strongly so far this quarter, SolarWorld's chief executive said.

A new study by UC Berkeley and Italian researchers may have solved a decades-long mystery behind the source of a tree-killing fungus that affected six of the world's seven continents.

A California man who hacked into hundreds of women’s and teenage girls' computers, for extorting sexually explicit videos and photos from them, has been sentenced to six years in prison.

NASA's Mars Exploration Robotic Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater, and the first rock it examined itself is creating waves among astronomers.