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.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 03, 2011
The poll results come in the wake of some inflammatory remarks Haley made about President Barack Obama r
Palash Ghosh
Sep 03, 2011
Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong has complained that he was booted from a Southwest Airlines flight in Oakland, California, because of the way he wore his pants.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 03, 2011
A major highway closed by a wildfire was reopened on Saturday but officials warned smoke or firefighting could bring fresh closures and motorists should avoid the immediate area.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 03, 2011
Hundreds of firefighters battled to protect a community in the path of a wildfire raging out of control on Friday in a mountain pass outside Los Angeles that has already forced the evacuation of 1,500 homes.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 03, 2011
The United States is going through a challenging time right now, and it could use a little comic relief. And who better to provide it than, arguably, the greatest comedian of the modern era, Groucho Marx.
Joseph Lazzaro
Sep 03, 2011
Billie Joe Armstrong, the 39-year-old frontman of Green Day, was escorted off Southwest Airlines flight in Oakland, California for wearing his pants too low.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 03, 2011
Apple, notorious for its corporate secrecy and for releasing industry defining products, could come under government scanner if it turns out to be true that its employees had allegedly impersonated San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officials while conducting a search in the house of a man, who was at a tequila bar the night an iPhone 5 prototype reportedly got lost.
Surojit Chatterjee
Sep 03, 2011
A woman found hanged, bound and nude at the estate of a prominent pharmaceutical executive in July -- two days after the fatal fall of the executive's young son -- committed suicide, police said on Friday.
keep for now
Sep 03, 2011
Scientists announced on Friday that a satellite orbiting Mars has discovered that a huge crater on the red planet was once a water-filled lake.
Ankita Mehta
Sep 03, 2011
A satellite orbiting Mars has found evidence that a huge crater on the Red Planet was once a water-filled lake and striking new images of the surface has been released. The new images were captured by the European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite, which have been orbiting Mars since 2003.
Laura Matthews
Sep 02, 2011
A brush fire broke out in the middle of a major California interstate on Friday and spread to a nearby neighborhood, threatening homes and forcing the highway's closure.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 02, 2011
Amazon.com has offered to create 7,000 jobs in the company's California distribution centers if lawmakers agree to put a recently enacted online sales tax law on hold until 2014.
Ashley Portero
Sep 02, 2011
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed its sixth ever great white shark on exhibit.
Mark Johanson
Sep 02, 2011
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.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 02, 2011
Bipartisan committee will meet same day as Obama's economy speech.
Cristina Merrill
Sep 02, 2011
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.
Ashley Portero
Sep 02, 2011
Don't let the recession get you down: Vintage automobiles that belonged to celebrities are on display.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 02, 2011
Jury unable to reach verdict.
Cristina Merrill
Sep 02, 2011
UCLA Chris Jeon decided he wanted something a little different for his summer vacation.
Jeremy White
Sep 02, 2011
America's nuclear power plants are more vulnerable to earthquakes causing catastrophic disasters than previously thought, according to an analysis of government data.
Jeremy White
Sep 02, 2011
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...
David Magee
Sep 02, 2011