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Cops: Demonstrators arrested on campus

University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees barricaded themselves Friday inside part of a campus building.

Web sites cater to for-sale-by-owner

Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task.

Prosecutors wrap up in Knox trial

An American student and her Italian boyfriend staged a burglary in the apartment where they had just killed a British student in an attempt to sidetrack the

Students protest fee hikes in Calif.

As protests resounded outside, the University of California Board of Regents approved a fee 32 percent fee increase for students attending the state's premier

Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon

Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.

Elizabeth Lambert talks about yank-down

Elizabeth Lambert, the soccer player who gained notoriety after a video of her taking down another player in a soccer match led to calls of unsportsmanlike

Google adding auto captions to YouTube

Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. The new service is intended to make online videos accessible to the deaf and hearing-impaired.

Possible holiday delay for new e-reader

Sony Corp. says some customers who pre-order its newest e-reader may not get the gadget in time for the holidays.

Pot farm found near LA police station

Officials said an elaborate marijuana growing site was found in an industrial building 25 feet from the back door of the Topanga police station in Los Angeles,

Popular Santa letter program ends

Thousands of starry-eyed children all over the world are writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season, but they'll not likely to get

California: More energy efficient TVs

Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators Wednesday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate to reduce electricity

Big blasts create tiny, tough diamonds

It’s no longer just gold ‘in them thar hills' near Deming, N.M.; it's diamonds, too, left as the dust clears and the sound of detonations echoes away.

IBM takes step toward thinking machines

Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of

Microsoft told to stop some sales

A Beijing court has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Windows operating system in China in a licensing dispute with a local

Zoo panda cub gets name 'Son of Cloud'

Out of 6,300 suggestions, San Diego Zoo managers have chosen a name for a baby panda born this summer.

Health group: High lead levels in toys

Children's toys carrying the Barbie and Disney logos have turned up with high levels of lead in them, according to a California-based advocacy group — a