The American Music Awards, which airs Nov. 24, usually serves as a preview to the Grammys. This year, only two of the three nominations for Favorite Male R&B are White (Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake); the third is Miguel. And ...

Every Halloween, I get the same questions from parents: “Should I let my kids have candy?” “How much candy is safe?”

The Los Altos Historical Commission voted unanimously Monday night to designate Steve Job's childhood home a “historic resource,” meaning any future renovations to the property will need to be reviewed by the city.

As Chris Brown checks into rehab to “gain insight” into his behavior, another celebrity who’s pushed past a bad reputation is rooting for him.

Nearly a half-million people are expected to descend on Santa Monica Boulevard Thursday night for the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval, whose theme is Noir Night.

Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year.

The Navy’s newest warship slipped out of dry dock this week into the waters of Maine, marking a new era for war fighting at sea.

A state lawmaker in Nevada who came under fire after a YouTube video surfaced in which he told a Republican gathering he would vote to allow slavery if that’s what his constituents wanted him to do, says his remarks were ...

Can mounting radar sensors or cameras on cars help prevent some traffic jams? New research suggests so.

A new version of Google Glass, the company’s breakthrough entry into the world of wearable tech, is on the way.

If you’ve spent any time on Facebook in the past day or so, you may be wondering: What’s up with all the giraffes?

The on-again, off-again Palmdale election will take place on Nov. 5 after the California Court of Appeals granted the go-ahead two weeks ago. The court’s ruling stated: “As phrased, the injunction written in the disjunctive, permits the defendant (Palmdale) to ...

I am a middle child, and I don’t think my older sister would be too upset to hear me take issue with the latest study to find that first-born children do better in school than us kids who were born ...

For many, typing has long overtaken handwriting as their primary word and sentence creation method. So much so that some schools no longer teach cursive.

A federal jury ruled Wednesday that Countrywide Financial, now owned by Bank of America, defrauded government-backed firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by selling them defective mortgages ahead of the financial crisis.