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Fires fed by raging winds raced across a wide swath of Northern California on Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes, threatening hundreds of others and leaving a firefighter severely burned.

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High above a hot, dry lake bed in the California desert, researchers are using sophisticated, unmanned aircraft to learn about how air pollution is also contributing to global warming.

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State Sen. Mike Machado's proposal offers the dual prospect of saving money and advancing good policy.

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Stanford Law School is dropping letter grades, a move intended to allow professors to be more experimental in the classroom and save student sanity in one of academia's most rigorous settings.

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A flake of exfoliated graphene 50 micrometers square was placed on layers of silicon dioxide insulator and a silicon gate.

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The two-year old mud volcano, Lusi, is still spewing huge volumes of mud and has displaced more than 30,000 people.

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The court-appointed receiver who oversees medical services in California's prisons asked Gov.

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By Shubha Singh: Young Indian women who have followed their non-resident Indian husbands abroad sometimes find that a matrimonial dispute can leave them without the wherewithal to contest a divorce case or file ...

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A 15,000-acre California real estate partnership that has the nation's largest public employees pension fund as its main investor has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

LandSource Communities Development LLC issued a news release late Sunday to announce the bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The partnership's assets include 15,000 acres of undeveloped land north of Los Angeles in the Santa Clarita Valley, making it one of the largest land deals to falter amid the national housing glut.

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U.S. gasoline prices shot above $4 a gallon for the first time Sunday, and drivers will be shelling out even more for gas this week.

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