Fire forces evacuation of campus, homes in Calif.
A wildfire fanned by a long day of Santa Ana winds raged along the edges of Southern California communities and coastal highways Thursday, forcing the ...
APNewsBreak: Judge axes federal suit over lake
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Los Angeles against air quality regulators who are requiring the city to do more to control dust on ...
Sore thumbs? US text messaging declines
Americans are saying CUL8TR to text messaging, a wireless industry group says, as Internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting ...
Feds: Many causes for dramatic bee disappearance
A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006. The intertwined ...
Syrian air defenses pose formidable challenge
International military action against Syria's government over its alleged use of chemical weapons would run up against one of the Middle East's most ...
Expert: Rhino population wiped out in Mozambique
Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, the beasts again are ...
Dutch ponder giving police the right to hack
The Dutch government has unveiled the draft of a law that would give police investigating online crimes the right to hack into computers in the ...
UN says 2012 was 9th-hottest year since 1850
The World Meteorological Organization says last year was the ninth-warmest since record-keeping began in 1850, despite the cooling effect of the ...
Correction: Online Courses-Teacher Training story
In a story May 1 about plans by Coursera to offer online courses that provide continuing education for teachers, The Associated Press reported ...
France defends interest in blocking Yahoo deal
The French government has defended its veto over Yahoo Inc.'s attempted takeover of video sharing website Dailymotion, even as the move draws jeers ...
Wind-fueled wildfire erupts east of Los Angeles
A Southern California wildfire fueled by strong winds was raging through 4½ square miles of Riverside County on Wednesday in the biggest of a series ...
PepsiCo pulls Mountain Dew ad after criticism
PepsiCo is once again learning the risks of celebrity partnerships after an ad for Mountain Dew was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and ...
Computer glitches derail school tests in 4 states
School districts across several states are rescheduling high-stakes tests that judge student proficiency and even determine teachers' pay because of ...
Dry winter, warming trend foretell wildfire danger
Two small but unseasonably early fires burning in northern California's wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a ...
Scholars find cannibalism at Jamestown settlement
Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, ...
Tablets with Windows RT see slow sales, IDC says
Microsoft is seeing slow sales of a version of Windows designed for thin and light tablets, even as the tablet market as a whole is growing, a ...
Ireland publishes bill on life-saving abortions
Ireland unveiled a long-awaited bill Wednesday that lays down new rules governing when life-saving abortions can be performed, a point of potentially ...
Mozilla: UK spyware company hijacking our brand
The maker of one of the Internet's most popular browsers is taking on one of the world's best-known purveyors of surveillance software, accusing a ...
Montana company faces fines in fatal bear mauling
The death of a Montana animal trainer mauled by a pair of 500-pound captive brown bears could have been prevented if standard safety practices had ...
APNewsBreak: NM horse slaughter plant to open soon
The southern New Mexico plant that has been fighting for more than a year for permission to slaughter horses will open soon, unless Congress ...
Softbank says Dish offer for Sprint 'illusory'
The CEO of Softbank, the Japanese cellphone carrier trying to buy a majority ownership in Sprint, said Tuesday that a competing bid from Dish is based ...
Virgin Galactic spaceship makes 1st powered flight
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its first powered flight, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company ...
Archaeologists plan more digs at Richard III site
Archaeologists who unearthed the skeleton of England's King Richard III under a municipal parking lot say they want to dig up a 600-year-old stone ...
China career boost can come with health risks
Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker. But after air pollution led to several stays ...
Google invades Siri's turf with iPhone, iPad app
Siri may be feeling a little job insecurity. The sometimes droll assistant that answers questions and helps people manage their lives on Apple's ...
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