Italian police seized around 9,200 bottles of fake champagne in Padova, Italy, a counterfeit operation that could have netted almost $2 million.

In an exclusive interview today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the software the FBI was essentially seeking to break into Syed Farook's iPhone was the "equivalent of cancer."

Senate Republican leaders said Tuesday that there would be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with President Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, all but slamming shut any prospects for an election-year Supre ...

Kristen Bieler on Grape Collective interviews critic Jancis Robinson and talks natural wine, the importance of “points” and the rise of the hipster sommelier.

Don’t know your Pinot Noir from your Pinotage? These five wine books for beginners give budding oenophiles a terrific head start and hopefully inspire a lifelong love of wine

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Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed one of the strictest schoolchild vaccination laws in the country, eliminating personal and religious belief exemptions for vaccines.

With a 24-14 vote in the state Senate, both houses have now signed off on SB277, which removes personal- and religious-belief exemptions often used by parents who want to exempt their children from all or some of the required school vaccines. Under ...

I apologize if I'm missing it somewhere, but I'm really interested in the origin of Snapzu. When was it started? By whom? Who built this wonderful software? I can't seem to find mention of these types of answers anywhere.

(Design in the Wild I) Forgery-Proof FE-Schrift

Writers called L.A.'s Alma the country's best new restaurant. Now it needs $40,000 just to stay open. Chef Ari Taymor explains what happened.

On a Tuesday this spring, as the 600hp rebuilt engine revs, Newman’s 1988 Nissan 300ZX shimmers like new beneath a cloudless sky outside another warehouse Carolla uses a few blocks from his studio–a 13,000-square-foot shrine he created for serious ca ...

Sports Business Daily is reporting that Sacramento-based Golden 1 Credit Union will be the naming rights partner for the Sacrament Kings' new downtown arena.

Straddling the California-Nevada border, Heavenly affords views of both the Lake Tahoe Basin and Carson Valley befitting of it's name.

Fear of failure can keep you from running the course.

Shake Shack filed a trademark application for "Chicken Shack." So what about the Chicken Shacks that already exist?

I worked on a snap for a bit, and hit "finished" because I was done editing for the moment, but not quite ready to post. I assumed it would go into a saved-draft mode, but it seems like it has vanished. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to save drafts?

On this episode of The Downshift, we head to Beale Air Force Base, home of the U-2 Spyplane. Since 1957 the U-2 has been essential in collecting intelligence for the United States government. Even though the "Dragon Lady" has been upgraded ...

12 hour in, and I've been thrilled with snapzu so far. I'm very curious, is there a publicly available metric of the number of users, number of active users, etc.

Ten years in at the Los Angeles stalwart.