(03-23) 17:38 PDT Saucier, Miss. (AP) -- Tom Pernice Jr., is off to a terrific start in soggy conditions at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic. In his first Champions Tour event this year, Pernice was 7 under through...

(03-23) 17:25 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former MF Global executive appears to contradict testimony from Jon Corzine, saying the former senator and New Jersey governor ordered the transfer of $200 million last fall out of...

(03-23) 17:00 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NRG Energy Inc. has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a dispute over long-term contracts signed during California's energy crisis 10 years ago, and most of the money will be used...

(03-23) 16:23 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user "...

(03-23) 16:09 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities. The social networking...

(03-23) 15:30 PDT Jupiter, Fla. (AP) -- Adam Wainwright pitched five shutout innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Miami 2-1 on Friday, overcoming Jose Reyes' first home run for the Marlins. Wainwright, who missed...

(03-23) 15:29 PDT BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- President Cristina Fernandez has finally declassified a scathing review of the mistakes made by Argentina's military junta in going to war with Britain in 1982 trying to...

(03-23) 13:31 PDT Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information...

(03-23) 13:13 PDT New York (AP) -- Stocks are eking out small gains at the end of a week in which the market was weighed down by prospects of a global economic slowdown. The Dow closed up 35 points at 13,080 Friday....

With the arrival of spring, the editors of the "Sunset Western Garden Book" -- the legendary garden "bible" -- join us to share helpful hints and tips to get some spring into your garden.

Over the course of three days next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of the president's sweeping health care legislation. At the heart of the case is the individual mandate requiring almost everyone to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. Two years to the day it was signed into law, we look at the arguments in front of the court. What might the outcome mean for California?

(03-23) 07:27 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of U.S. new homes fell in February for the second straight month, a reminder that the depressed housing market remains weak despite some improvement. The Commerce Department...

At least 3.1 million Americans are employed in green jobs, a sector that now accounts for about 2.4 percent of the nation's total employment, the Labor Department said Thursday. The report represents the first time the...

BrightSource Energy Inc., the developer of solar-thermal power plants, is seeking as much as $182.5 million in an initial public offering. The Oakland company is offering 6.9 million shares at $21 to $23 apiece,...

Facebook acquired 750 patents from International Business Machines, adding intellectual property that may help it counter allegations of patent infringement, a person with knowledge of the transaction said. The patents...

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Number of the day 141% Ohio Art stock jumped that much Thursday after its Etch A Sketch toy became a metaphor for Mitt Romney's campaign. The thinly traded shares rose to $9.65 from $4. Wednesday, Romney aide Eric...

Number of the day $227 million That's the value of the Zynga stake that CEO Mark Pincus is selling in a secondary stock offering. The San Francisco company, which dominates the market for social-networking games ("...

The former owner of one of the nation's largest tomato processors pleaded guilty Friday to running the company as a racketeering enterprise that bribed purchasers, fixed prices and doctored lab tests of moldy tomato...