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Google reported a 32 percent year-over-year increase in revenue on Thursday.

Google reported its strongest quarter in several years, with revenue and earnings handily exceeding all expectations, driven by core search and momentum in display and mobile businesses.

Programmer Eric Fischer has created maps that visualize Twitter and Flickr usages around the world.

Marking the countdown to the feared ‘Carmageddon’, or the weekend closure of a nearly 10-mile stretch of the Interstate 405, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attempted to brush aside a 'car apocalypse', saying the chaos will do good in future.

Three months after Kate Hudson (32) and Matt Bellamy(33) got engaged in April, Kate has given birth to a bonny baby boy and has named him Bingham Hawn Bellamy.

Robert Blossom, who died at the age of 87 is one of the most well-loved Hollywood actors.

Prompted by the death of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter, two new bills were introduced in California today that would have put Casey Anthony in jail for 15 years. Caylee's Law has been introduced in at least 18 other states.

The US Women face the Japanese in the FIFA World Cup finals soccer game on Sunday in an epic battle between the upstart teams in Frankfurt, Germany.

Shacknai's brother Adam was the last person so see Rebecca Nalepa Alive

Public schools in California will be required to teach students about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans starting Jan. 1 after Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed the controversial bill.

Mexican soldiers discovered the biggest marijuana plantation ever found in Mexican history, in the state of Baja California, about 150 miles (250km) south of the U.S. border Tuesday.

As a picture emerges of a notorious crime figure, some residents of his old neighborhoods have offered a different perspective.

After sifting through more than 150,000 pieces of evidence and spending six months investigating tips, the Beverly Hills Police Department has finally closed publicist Ronno Chasen's November murder investigation, a Beverly Hills Courier reports.

A public official pushing for a breakaway state in Southern California is seeking corporate sponsorship for an idea that has been embraced by local government but rejected by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS) has concluded that last year's seasonal El Nino was responsible for severe erosion along the West Coast during the winter and could be an indicator of things to come.

Rebecca Nalepa, 32, girlfriend of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp., a pharmaceutical company based in Scottsdale, Ariz., founder and chief executive Jonah Shacknai, was found dead at his California home, one of many in a wealthy neighborhood, Wednesday in what officials are calling suspicious circumstances.

The notorious and mysterious Zodiac Killer who killed four men and three women in Northern California during the late 60s and early 70s, is yet to be identified.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is set to begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta on Friday, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid.

Beginning Friday night, the city of Los Angeles is preparing to face one of the biggest road congestion of all times, dubbed rightly as Carmageddon.

Just days after Cal State approved a 12 percent tuition hike, University of California regents followed by increasing tuition by 9.6% for fall. The decision was approved 14 to 4 in San Francisco during a board meeting.

Mexican soldiers on Thursday discovered 300 acres (120 hectares) of Marijuana plants tended by dozens of men in San Quintin, about 350 km (220 miles) away from Tijuana, General Alfonso Duarte said.