A school of about 200 harbor seals has emerged victorious in the battle between those who want to protect one of California’s top seal-spotting places and those who cherish the “Children’s Pool,” a cove built 70 years ago to give tots a safe place to swim.
If the stench and bacteria from feces and birth byproducts […]

San Francisco police arrested a man and woman suspected of robbing a bank and fleeing in a limousine as their getaway car, officials said on Wednesday.
Roy Westry and Cynthia Johnson, both recent parolees in their 40s, were pulled over on Tuesday afternoon by police officers alerted to a nearby bank robbery involving a 2006 Cadillac […]

CNN is running a Fortune story covering an analyst meeting held on Thursday. There, CEO Otellini admitted Intel has fallen behind AMD with lost market share, technological leadership, and recently profitability
From the article: “Intel’s market share recently slipped below 80%, and Otellini strongly emphasized the need for market share gains in all his remarks. On […]

UK national Gary McKinnon, 39, told prosecutors he broke into US government computer systems because he wanted to find out whether aliens and UFOs exist. He found no proof and the unemployed computer programmer is now battling extradition to the US, where, if found guilty, he faces up to 70 years in jail and fines […]

Janet Orlando, who sued her firm for more than a million dollars. A jury in Fresno, California, has begun deliberating the case.
Orlando left home security company Alarm One after she was spanked with a rival company’s yard sign in front of co-workers on several occasions. The company says its morning sales meetings promoted bonding and […]

The girl band Morning Musume on the Japanese TV show Fun, watch a clip from the horror movie Ringu (The Ring) and…

A gunman who tried to rob a San Gabriel Valley bank Wednesday morning found himself locked alone inside the building by a quick-thinking employee, police said.
The man remained inside the Bank of the West hours later, authorities said. “The suspect’s basically locked in there by himself right now,” police Capt. Michael Taylor said.
The employee, whose […]

Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup-sizes in China because improved nutrition is busting all previous chest measurement records.
“It’s so different from the past when most young women would wear A- or B-cup bras,” Triumph brand saleswoman Zhang Jing told the Shanghai Daily from the Landmark Plaza of China’s commercial hub.
“You…never expect those […]

A US study has concluded that children consume the caloric equivalent of a bag of potato chips for every hour they spend in front of a television. Food advertising in implicated in causing unconscious eating among young viewers.
The study followed 550 children aged 11 to 13 over a period of 20 months. For each hour […]

The family and friends of a man swallowed and crushed by a freak sinkhole beneath his home Friday remembered Jason Chellew as an inspiration. Authorities say Chellew’s home, built in the 1980s, may have been sitting atop a decades-old underground mine. Recent rains could have softened the ground under the home, in an isolated area […]