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Long before Wood's death by drowning, the West Side Story and Rebel Without a Cause star had a lifelong, unsettling relationship with water, including a childhood fear of drowning and many significant parts of her life lived at sea. As Wood's case is re-opened, and as details about Robert Wagner and Dennis Davern emerge, sister Lana Wood links her drowning to premonitions of a watery death.

Four teenagers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Griffen Kramer, a senior quarterback at Thousand Oaks High School and son of former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer, according to ESPNLosAngeles.com.

Several recent polls have shown that Americans are slowly warming up to the idea of legalizing marijuana for medical purposes for serious medical conditions.

When California's Proposition 8 has its day in court, any judge who respects the U.S. Constitution will strike it down as a violation of the 14th Amendment, because civil rights cannot be subject to popular vote.

Homicide detectives who have reopened an investigation into the death of Natalie Wood after three decades said on Friday that the film star's husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not considered a suspect.

The Bluths are back.

Scientists at HRL Laboratories LLC, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Irvine have invented a new material so light that even a feathery dandelion can comfortably hold its weight without having its little fluffy seeds mashed.

Until the Lincoln Unified School District finishes investigating claims that Heidi Kaeslin's been making money on the side by working on pornographic Web sites with a retired police officer using one of its laptops, the 35-year-old California teacher will be on paid leave, The Record reported Wednesday.

A light sentence handed down on Friday for a former top UBS private banker who became a U.S. government informant on wealthy American tax cheats ramps up pressure on the Swiss banking industry.

When he walked into the jury room to start deliberating in Rambus Inc's $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against two rivals, one juror felt confident that the small microchip designer should prevail.

Homicide detectives who have reopened an inquiry into the death Natalie Wood said on Friday that the film star's husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not considered a suspect in the case.

A special 48 Hours segment devoted to her mysterious death is set to air on CBS next Saturday

During famed fund manager Bill Miller's 15-year streak of outperforming the S&P 500, he was often held up as proof that stock picking wasn't just dumb luck. It required skill.

The FDA announced on Friday it has revoked approval of the cancer drug Avastin for breast cancer patients, citing multiple studies that concluded it does not prolong the life of women suffering from metastatic breast cancer.

A bipartisan bill to combat online piracy is running into bipartisan opposition over the broad language in the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.

Ready Pac Foods Inc. is recalling 5,379 cases of bagged salad products containing romaine lettuce because they may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the Irwindale, California, company said.

Natalie Wood, James Dean and Sal Mineo Jr. all died of mysterious or tragic circumstances after starring in the seminal 1950s film Rebel Without a Cause.

The number of children in the United States considered poor rose by 1 million in 2010, the U.S. Census said Thursday, with more than one in five of the youngest Americans now living in poverty.

The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.

The nugget, which was found in Russia's Irkindan gold deposit located in the Khabarovsk region, weighs 7 kg 655 g with. The nugget resembles a boxing glove and is of 914th pureness without admixtures.

Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) said Thursday it slipped to a loss in its third quarter on higher costs and said the losses would continue into the fourth quarter.