http://www.mail.com/int/locations/2980-california.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/locations/2980-california.html http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2092126-voigt-wins-stage-van-garderen-takes-lead.html SAN LUIS OBISPO, California (AP) — Germany's Jens Voigt won the fifth stage of the Tour of California on Thursday as America's Tejay van Garderen surprisingly took the overall lead a day sooner than expected. The 41-year-old Voigt, riding for the RadioShack Leopard team, jumped to the front with about 3 miles (5 kilometers) left and completed the windy 1... Fri, 17 May 2013 01:05:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2092126-voigt-wins-stage-van-garderen-takes-lead.html 2013-05-17T01:05:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2092026-beckham-brought-credibility-visibility-to-mls.html Ask someone in Asia or Europe a decade ago what they knew about the Galaxy, and odds are the answer would have been limited to planets or stars. Nowadays, it's likely to include a reference to "Beckham's team," the Major League Soccer franchise in Los Angeles. By making the growth of football in the United States his pet project, David Beckham put the spo... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:15:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2092026-beckham-brought-credibility-visibility-to-mls.html 2013-05-17T00:15:34Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080748-project-to-track-megacities-carbon-footprints.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep watch on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tai... Mon, 13 May 2013 04:47:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080748-project-to-track-megacities-carbon-footprints.html 2013-05-13T04:47:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2080864-westra-leads-tour-california-1st-stage.html ESCONDIDO, California (AP) — Lieuwe Westra of the Netherlands easily outsprinted Spanaird Francisco Mancebo to claim the sweltering and hilly stage 1 of the Tour of California and assume the overall race lead Sunday. Westra claimed his 12th career win, completed the 102.6-mile (165.1-kilometer) Escondido road race in 4 hours, 31 minutes and 33 seconds as ... Mon, 13 May 2013 01:11:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2080864-westra-leads-tour-california-1st-stage.html 2013-05-13T01:11:28Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080814-project-aims-to-track-big-city-carbon-footprints.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and aut... Mon, 13 May 2013 00:02:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080814-project-aims-to-track-big-city-carbon-footprints.html 2013-05-13T00:02:29Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2079476-americas-cup-planning-endures-rough-waters.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The death of British Olympic champion Andrew Simpson during an America's Cup training run on San Francisco Bay was the latest and worst setback yet to befall the event. Now, questions are being raised about the safety of the $10 million high-tech catamarans that can obtain speeds of 45 mph (72 kph), and how Simpson's death will affect... Sat, 11 May 2013 22:33:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2079476-americas-cup-planning-endures-rough-waters.html 2013-05-11T22:33:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2079110-americas-cup-expected-to-fatal-wreck.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The head of the America's Cup planning effort expects sailing's most prestigious event to go ahead after the death of British Olympic champion Andrew Simpson while training in San Francisco Bay. In an interview on Saturday, Stephen Barclay said he would await the results of an internal examination of Thursday's accident before making ... Sat, 11 May 2013 18:38:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2079110-americas-cup-expected-to-fatal-wreck.html 2013-05-11T18:38:19Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2075146-americas-cup-yacht-nosedived-broke-pieces.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The America's Cup catamaran that capsized in San Francisco Bay, killing an Olympic gold medalist, nosedived during a difficult maneuver and broke into many pieces, an official said Friday. However, it remained unclear why the Artemis flipped on Thursday, trapping crew member Andrew "Bart" Simpson under the wreckage for at least 10 min... Fri, 10 May 2013 21:31:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2075146-americas-cup-yacht-nosedived-broke-pieces.html 2013-05-10T21:31:19Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2058120-police-politicians-push-surveillance-boston.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police and politicians across the U.S. are pointing to the surveillance video that was used to help identify the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as a reason to get more electronic eyes on their streets. Efforts include trying to gain police access to cameras used to monitor traffic, expanding surveillance networks in some major cities ... Thu, 02 May 2013 19:12:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2058120-police-politicians-push-surveillance-boston.html 2013-05-02T19:12:43Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2057816-early-hollywood-teen-star-deanna-durbin-dies-91.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deanna Durbin, the teen sensation whose sparkling soprano voice and girl-next-door looks made her a star during Hollywood's Golden Age, has died, a family friend said Wednesday. She was 91. Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris where she had lived, out of public view, since 1949, family friend Bob Koster of Los Angele... Thu, 02 May 2013 08:29:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2057816-early-hollywood-teen-star-deanna-durbin-dies-91.html 2013-05-02T08:29:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2050798-james-bond-studio-to-open-1st-us-facility.html ATLANTA (AP) — The British film studio that's home to the James Bond movie franchise announced plans Monday for its first U.S. film production facility, at a site near Atlanta. The large-scale film complex will be called Pinewood Atlanta, and Pinewood will manage the facility under an agreement with a group of private investors. Plans call for the studio ... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:00:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2050798-james-bond-studio-to-open-1st-us-facility.html 2013-04-29T20:00:08Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2051212-virgin-galactic-spaceship-1st-powered-flight.html MOJAVE, California (AP) — Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company closer to its goal of flying paying passengers on brief hops into space. "It couldn't have gone more smoothly," said Sir Richard Branson, who British tycoon owns the spaceline wit... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:04:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2051212-virgin-galactic-spaceship-1st-powered-flight.html 2013-04-29T19:04:16Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2050674-bayer-to-pay-11b-california-firm-conceptus.html FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German drug company Bayer AG says it has agreed to buy California-based Conceptus for around $1.1 billion to expand the kinds of birth control it offers. Bayer said Monday it would launch a public offer to pay $31.00 per share for all the stock in Conceptus, Inc., which is based in Mountain View. Conceptus makes Essure, an irreve... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:48:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2050674-bayer-to-pay-11b-california-firm-conceptus.html 2013-04-29T11:48:56Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2049276-american-charged-ex-general-held-venezuela.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An American filmmaker was formally charged late Saturday by Venezuelan officials who accuse him of paying right-wing groups to foment postelection unrest on behalf of U.S. intelligence. The federal prosecutor's office said Timothy Tracy, 35, of West Hollywood, California, was charged with crimes including conspiracy, association ... Sun, 28 Apr 2013 03:44:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2049276-american-charged-ex-general-held-venezuela.html 2013-04-28T03:44:16Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2033096-us-philanthropist-savors-opening-jewish-museum.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time Nazi police entered his compartment and barked orders for his documents — papers that plainly identified him as an 8-year-old Jewish boy from Poland. But the full terror of the war was ... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:54:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2033096-us-philanthropist-savors-opening-jewish-museum.html 2013-04-20T15:54:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2025182-to-save-endangered-languages-tribes-turn-to-tech.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps. But these are no Silicon Valley techies in town for one of the city's massive electronics shows. Many are from far-flung American Indian reservations, and their high-tech devices are serving a... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:55:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2025182-to-save-endangered-languages-tribes-turn-to-tech.html 2013-04-17T09:55:29Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2021646-security-beefed-up-worldwide-boston-blasts.html From the World Trade Center and Times Square in New York to the White House and sports venues across the country, police patrolled in packs and deployed counterterrorism teams Monday as security was stepped up after explosions at the Boston Marathon. Worries also reverberated across the Atlantic, where an already robust security operation was being beefed... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:33:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2021646-security-beefed-up-worldwide-boston-blasts.html 2013-04-16T02:33:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2012346-rockefeller-impostor-convicted-cold-case-murder.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A German immigrant who spent decades posing as an heir to the fabled Rockefeller oil fortune and using other identities was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a man whose bones were found buried nearly 20 years ago at a suburban home. Christian Gerhartsreiter, 52, was convicted Wednesday in the heavily circumstantial ca... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:03:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2012346-rockefeller-impostor-convicted-cold-case-murder.html 2013-04-11T05:03:48Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2008880-rockefeller-impostor-murder-case-to-jury.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A murder case against a notorious Rockefeller impostor was turned over to a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday after the prosecutor implored the panel to find the defendant guilty of the cold-case crime. "He's gotten away with it long enough," Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian said. "Hold this man accountable." Christian Gerhartsreiter, a ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:19:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2008880-rockefeller-impostor-murder-case-to-jury.html 2013-04-10T00:19:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2004746-prosecutor-impostor-ready-with-lie.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A notorious Rockefeller impostor was depicted Monday by a prosecutor as a master manipulator who "always had a lie in his back pocket to explain things," but slipped up and left clues that he was a killer. "This isn't a movie, a book, a TV show, a docudrama," Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian said in his closing argument, referring ... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:19:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2004746-prosecutor-impostor-ready-with-lie.html 2013-04-09T00:19:04Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1996238-sides-rest-rockefeller-impostors-la-trial.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The defense and prosecution rested their cases in the murder trial of a notorious Rockefeller impostor Wednesday after his ex-wife called him a consistent liar and "an unpleasant human being." Defendant Christian Gerhartsreiter chose to not testify in his own defense against charges that he killed a suburban San Marino man who vanished ... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:09:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1996238-sides-rest-rockefeller-impostors-la-trial.html 2013-04-03T22:09:50Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/1995224-rolling-stones-9-city-tour.html NEW YORK (AP) — Call it satisfaction: The Rolling Stones have announced a nine-city tour. The veteran rockers said Wednesday their "50 and Counting" tour will kick off in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. The date will be announced later. The second show is in Oakland, Calif., on May 5. The tour will also visit San Jose, Calif.; Las Vegas; Anaheim, Calif... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:10:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/1995224-rolling-stones-9-city-tour.html 2013-04-03T14:10:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1988852-la-police-suspect-girls-abduction-case.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A transient with a long criminal record is being sought for the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital. Tobias Dustin Summers, 30, was identified by police on Saturday as a suspect in the case but they couldn't elaborate o... Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:08:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1988852-la-police-suspect-girls-abduction-case.html 2013-03-31T17:08:32Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1988380-playboys-christa-speck-70-dies-los-angeles.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A German-born former Playboy Playmate who later married television producer Marty Krofft has died in Los Angeles of natural causes at age 70. Family spokesman Christoph Buerger says Christa Speck died March 22 at home. Speck, a model and actress, was named Playboy's "Playmate of the Month" in September 1961, and "Playmate of the Year" i... Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:26:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1988380-playboys-christa-speck-70-dies-los-angeles.html 2013-03-30T16:26:23Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1987528-filmmaker-who-rescued-romanian-orphans-killed.html ENCINITAS, California (AP) — A documentary filmmaker known for helping rescue children from squalid Romanian orphanages in the early 1990s was fatally shot following an apparent dispute over the trimming of shrubbery outside his Southern California home, officials said Friday. John Charles Upton Jr., 56, was found dead Thursday on a dirt path in the yard ... Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:32:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/1987528-filmmaker-who-rescued-romanian-orphans-killed.html 2013-03-30T01:32:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1985972-solar-powered-plane-plans-flight-us.html MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) — A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe is set to travel across the United States with stops in Phoenix, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and New York, the plane's Swiss creators said. Solar Impulse, considered the world's most advanced solar-powered plane, is expected to be ready to leave from NASA Ames Rese... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:50:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1985972-solar-powered-plane-plans-flight-us.html 2013-03-29T02:50:16Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1985324-tv-interview-played-rockefeller-impostor-trial.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors may never hear testimony from a Rockefeller impostor on trial for killing a California man. But on Thursday they saw the next best thing — a TV interview in which he offered an oblique denial. The August 2008 interview of Christian Gerhartsreiter on NBC's "Today" show featured the German immigrant claiming in unaccented English t... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:40:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1985324-tv-interview-played-rockefeller-impostor-trial.html 2013-03-28T23:40:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1983094-witness-tells-affair-with-rockefeller-impostor.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mihoko Manabe told jurors at her former fiance's murder trial that she never knew the true identity of the German immigrant who posed as a member of the fabled Rockefeller family until he was charged with murder. Prosecutor wanted her to show Wednesday that by the time she met the man, whose true name was Christian Gerhartsreiter, he ha... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:56:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1983094-witness-tells-affair-with-rockefeller-impostor.html 2013-03-28T00:56:35Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1979040-priest-who-worked-calif-freed-irish-jail.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former Catholic priest who spent five years working in Northern California has been released from jail in his native Ireland after pleading guilty to several child-abuse charges there. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court Margaret Heneghan gave 77-year-old Patrick Joseph McCabe his freedom over the weekend based on his age, statements of c... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:33:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1979040-priest-who-worked-calif-freed-irish-jail.html 2013-03-25T23:33:26Z