Topic: Southern California

California quake related to Easter temblor

California quake was centered 28 miles south of Palm Springs and was related to the powerful Easter Day quake, but was not an aftershock.
07/08/2010 10:51 am

Linda Lingle's veto of civil unions in Hawaii may prompt boycott

Linda Lingle's office also received dozens of angry calls, many of them saying they would not travel to the state.
07/08/2010 10:42 am

Opinion Arizona’s next ugly battle: citizenship for immigrant children

The same state senator behind Arizona’s strict immigration laws is now pushing a troubling bill to ban birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
07/07/2010 03:09 pm

Abby Sunderland happy to be home, but sad sailing trip ended

Abby Sunderland held a press conference today in California. The 16-year-old sailor said she's proud that she made it 12,000 nautical miles.
06/29/2010 03:06 pm

Abby Sunderland returning home

Abby Sunderland, the teen sailor who attempted to sail solo around the world, is returning to the port from which she launched her voyage five months ago.
06/29/2010 11:23 am

Hamas spy finds home in California, seeks asylum

Hamas spy: Mosab Hassan Yousef says he will be killed if he is deported from the United States to the West Bank.
06/29/2010 10:58 am

California earthquake moved town 31 inches south

California earthquake: NASA radar images show that the powerful quake that struck Baja California in April moved Calexico, a city on the US-Mexico border, some 31 inches to the south.
06/25/2010 03:35 pm

Southern California earthquakes deemed April aftershocks

The southern California earthquakes Monday night peaked at magnitude 5.7, disrupting a San Diego Padres baseball game, but no significant damage or injuries have been reported.
06/15/2010 12:26 pm

California earthquake: 5.7 earthquake rattles US - Mexico border Monday night

California earthquake: US-Mexico border rocked by an aftershock on the Easter Sunday earthquake that shook Baja California and Southern California.
06/15/2010 08:04 am

Couple gets married at Home Depot

No word if Lowe's employees will demand weddings too.
06/13/2010 09:51 am

In Pictures Space Photos of the Day 06/14

San Francisco, Los Angeles prosecutors face off in race to replace California Attorney General Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown decided to seek the governor's office rather than run for re-election.
06/09/2010 03:23 pm

Vocalist Ali-Ollie Woodson led the Temptations' 1980s comeback

Ali-Ollie Woodson who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s with hits such as 'Treat Her Like A Lady' and 'Sail Away,' passed away on Saturday.
06/02/2010 04:53 pm

Singer Ali-Ollie Woodson of The Temptations was 'a star performer. Wonderful person.'

06/01/2010 01:22 pm

Cool Astronomy Test of scramjet-powered X-51A engine [VIDEO]

The US Air Force's experimental X-51A Waverider scramjet has set a new record for hypersonic travel.
05/27/2010 07:43 pm

Horizons Scramjet-powered X-51A Waverider missile breaks Mach 5 record

On Wednesday morning, a US Air Force X-51A Waverider missile sustained speeds of Mach 5 for more than 200 seconds, the US Air Force has announced. The X-51A Waverider, which was launched over the southern California coast, is powered by next-gen scramjet technology.
05/27/2010 04:00 pm

US Air Force's X-51A Waverider scramjet sets hypersonic flight record

After flying at five times the speed of sound for more than three minutes Wednesday, the US Air Force's experimental X-51A Waverider scramjet has set a new record for the longest hypersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight.
05/27/2010 03:00 pm

Toyota and Tesla agree to electric car venture in California

The heads of Toyota and Tesla announced Thursday they will enter into a joint venture building electric cars in California.
05/21/2010 12:47 pm

The Circle Bastiat Time for a new housing boom already? Las Vegas thinks so.

Construction has nearly doubled in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tuscon, despite the fact that houses are still being abandoned due to foreclosure. What's happening in the Southwest?
05/19/2010 01:58 pm

Cool Astronomy How a janitor at the Mount Wilson Observatory measured the size of the universe

Milton Humason, a high-school dropout who worked as a mule driver and then a janitor at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, worked his way up to become the assistant of Edwin Hubble, whom he helped to study the spectral redshift of hundreds of galaxies.
05/19/2010 12:53 pm

The Circle Bastiat Builders gear up to build more houses

04/26/2010 03:29 pm

Ether: Seven Stories and a Novella

The characters in this striking debut short story collection wrestle with questions of success, failure, commitment, and responsibility.
04/23/2010 03:20 pm

Gallery NFL DRAFT: No. 1 draft picks that made the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Why Mexico earthquake, stronger than Haiti's, did much less damage

The magnitude 7.2 Mexico earthquake on Sunday, centered in northern Baja California, did not inflict nearly the damage that the 7.0 earthquake did in Haiti. Credit quake-resistant building standards and, perhaps, the distance of population centers from the epicenters.
04/05/2010 06:37 pm

In Pictures Mexicali earthquake