Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who is out on medical leave, has been ordered by a federal magistrate to answer questions from plaintiffs' lawyers in an antitrust lawsuit related to his company's iTunes business. U.S. Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd, based in San Jose, California, ruled that... Read more...
A new immunization requirement will be in effect this fall to help fight the spread of whooping cough in Oklahoma schools and communities. All students entering seventh grade will be required to have one dose of Tdap — tetanus, diphtheria and acelluar pertussis vaccine — before the start ... Read more...
Mumia Abu Jamal - CointelprosThenAndNow Written for the People’s Hearing on Racism and Police, Oakland, California, February 19 and 20, 2011 Ona Move! Long Live John Africa! All Power to the People! I greet you all as we look at what’s happening in the world—and try to figure out... Read more...
Target Corp. (TGT), the second-largest U.S. discount retailer, will pay $22.5 million to settle claims it illegally dumped hazardous waste in California, said San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis. The settlement, announced today in an e-mailed statement from Dumanis, resolves a ci... Read more...
Maulana Ron Karenga is an Afro-American author, political activist, convicted felon, and college professor best known as the creator of Kwanzaa. Karenga was active in the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the black nationalist group Us Organization which remains active to thi... Read more...
A scientist has discovered 34,000-year-old bacteria buried underneath a Californian desert. The discovery was made after researchers dug up salt crystals below Death Valley in Eastern California for climate research. Ancient microbes were found trapped inside tiny, fluid-filled chambers with... Read more...
If you were in Southern California on Thursday afternoon and happened to notice what looked like a skyscraper darting across the sky, you weren't seeing things. That was the Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle, the largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast. Since the craft is 235 feet tall --... Read more...

Note: Somebody sent me this in an email and I found it "semi-interesting" Google Solar Array Mountain View, California Today, Google employs 20,223 people around the world, receiving a resume every 25 seconds from eager job-seekers, hiring an average of nine new employees a ... Read more...

Baja California authorities seized 105 tons of marijuana Monday morning in what is believed to be one of the largest drug busts in recent Mexican history, according to Mexican authorities and media reports. About 10,000 packages of marijuana were hidden inside six cargo containers stored in a w... Read more...