Calif.

In an industrial park outside of Sacramento, Calif. , there's a factory inside what looks like an old airplane hangar.

"Erosion seems to be slower, " said David Kass, a Mars atmospheric scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

I've been trying Google Wallet in Washington, D. C. , and Palo Alto, Calif. , and I find it delightfully easy to use.

Cynthia Larsen of Riverside, Calif. , said the bank charged her three overdraft fees of $32 each in 2009.

Li will join the team in Napa Valley, Calif. , for a week-long stay as it prepares for the 2007 season.

calif, city councillor, one of his proudest achievement has nothing at all to do with government.

The driver of a white Porsche zips into the Costco gas station in Marina del Rey, Calif. , and takes his place in line.

When he graduated from high school in Cupertino, Calif. , in 1972, he said, "the very strong scent of the 1960s was still there. "

"Some knowledge is always better than no knowledge, " says Arthur Olson of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif .

She runs a small day care business out of her home in Milpitas, Calif. , and recently expanded her services to include after-school care.

Palo Alto, Calif. -based company Better Place is working to persuade Congress that it has one of those revolutionary ideas.

But a case before a court in San Jose, Calif. , was always seen as potentially pivotal, given the size and importance of the U. S. market.

The day before, he had been shot in the head in an Oxnard, Calif. , classroom full of students.

The 47-year-old Buellton, Calif. , resident grew up in a small town in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. --Yahoo made some key changes to one of its most important products today, rolling out a new look for Yahoo Mail.

He and his wife, Laurie, a dental assistant, owned a ranch house in Kenwood, Calif. , in the Sonoma Valley.

During the jet's design phase, Parker sent three engineers and a program manager to Shanghai from its headquarters in Irvine, Calif.

It would be a little bigger than Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. , and on par with the parks in Paris and Tokyo.

CNBC reported Monday that Jobs was at the company's Cupertino, Calif. , headquarters.

(SACRAMENTO, Calif. ) -- Scientists have long known the molecular mechanisms behind most of the body sensing capabilities.

Half the work will be performed at McKinney, Texas; and the rest will take place in El Segundo, Calif.

Similar to other search engines, Google, Mountain View, Calif. , uses such a list to flag search results that could harm a user's computer.

The company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. , said it would provide more details "when appropriate. "

As we chugged toward Emeryville, Calif. , the last stop, we began anticipating the next leg of the journey.

'It was important to have both parents, ' says Ms. Cashman, a merchandiser for a greeting-card company in Carlsbad, Calif.

So when they found out the company had started franchising, they jumped at the chance to open a gym in Carlsbad, Calif.

She stepped down in 2006 before being lured to Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. , three years later.

A year ago, on Earth Day 2011, the Oakland, Calif. -based solar-power startup announced plans to go public in spring 2012.

Earlier this week, speaking in Palo Alto, Calif. , he said that no country can 'devalue its way to prosperity and competitiveness. '

The Cupertino, Calif. , company may be close to saturating the market for people who buy iPods for music and video, some analysts believe.

An Apple spokesman said the Cupertino, Calif. , company doesn't comment on monthly sales.

The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U. S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, Calif.

Ms. Pu, who was born in Taiwan, grew up in Palo Alto, Calif. , and speaks Mandarin, will graduate from CEIBS in 2012.

Among the underemployed is Marty Rasmussen of Walnut Creek, Calif. , who was a banking executive for more than 15 years.

In hard-hit housing markets like Orlando, Fla. , Riverside, Calif. , and Memphis, Tenn. , thousands of homeowners are risking foreclosure.

The Mountain View, Calif. , company famously lets its engineers spend one day a week on projects that aren't part of their jobs.

Val Valentine, 65, of Huntington Beach, Calif. , hung on to a photo of his ex-wife taken with the actor Telly Savalas in the early 1980s.

He said engineers at the 15-person software maker, which is based in Santa Barbara, Calif. , spent the morning comparing the two programs.

The updated plans were discussed at a conference of the American Institute Astronautics on Thursday in Long Beach, Calif.

The only other market currently considered for the video-phone-Internet service is Palo Alto, Calif.

One of the most ambitious amateur woodworkers is Carl Bass, the CEO of Autodesk Inc. , a San Rafael, Calif. , software company.

Officials of the Air Force, the Aerospace Corp. , and experts at Boeing's satellite factory in El Segundo, Calif. , supervised the tests.

Wagner lost his ability to walk as a result of an accident in the surf off the coast of Redondo, Calif. in 1995.

Khan moved to Palo Alto, Calif. , in 2005, where he worked on Khan Academy videos out of a closet in his home.

Mr. Schmidt began the Mountain View, Calif. , company's annual meeting by saying, 'all is well after a year of great tumult. '

Pfc. Garrick Carlton, 21, of Sacramento, Calif. , patrols up a mountain looking for an insurgent fighting position in Kunar province.

Yahoo in July agreed to a pact with Microsoft that effectively sees the Sunnyvale, Calif. , Internet company outsource search to Microsoft.

The same kind of cells can be found in humans, report Wei-Qiang Gao, PhD, and colleagues at Genentech Inc. , South San Francisco, Calif.

ROSS S. STEIN is a geophysicist with the U. S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Team in Menlo Park, Calif.

Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. , as he returns home from the Vietnam War.

The next Clarity in the program will be picked up later this week by a school principal in Orange County, Calif.

Across the country in Pasadena, Calif. , Colleen Nelson had a different problem.

'Failure, and how companies deal with failure, is a very big part of innovation, ' says Judy Estrin of Menlo Park, Calif.

The company, which has a pilot-scale refinery in Anaheim, Calif. , converts waste material into sugars that can then be processed into fuel.

On Saturday, at a G. O. P. rally in Anaheim, Calif. , Palin mockingly noted that you won't find her invoking Mao or Saul Alinsky.

A few weeks ago, I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif. , home.

The former project manager at a defense company in Santa Barbara, Calif. , wanted a career change -- and he wanted to build it abroad.

Last week, Mr. Apotheker canceled a scheduled appearance at a Dana Point, Calif. , conference for corporate technology executives.

When one of his employees phoned in sick last year, Scott McDonald, CEO of Monument Security in Sacramento, Calif. , decided to investigate.

San Mateo, Calif. -based BrightEdge uses tools to help companies increase their prominence on search engines like Google.

A. in Foster City. , Calif. , staged a regatta to help employees learn how to work together in a new environment.

The artists have been building it in Oakland, Calif. , and it will be installed at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

At his San Bruno, Calif. , office, YouTube CEO Hurley remembers his PayPal days as an education in business.

A day later, Mr. Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. , at the age of 56.

Michael Taylor examines the base of a 25-foot diameter redwood stump in a backyard near Crescent City, Calif.

Berkeley-Oakland City, Calif. demonstrators march against the war in Vietnam, December 1965.

MRB's manufacturing operation is located in Poway, Calif. , and its engineering group is located in Fremont, Calif.

Kingdom of Wonders, _founded_ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif. , became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.

Workers at a lot in the South Prescott neighborhood in west Oakland, Calif. , where fishbone meal was applied to tainted soil.

The Palo Alto, Calif. , company will provide the technology infrastructure needed to drive DISA's Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE).

One of its first customers was Palo Alto, Calif. -based IMVU Inc.

Susan Stone, owner of the Savannah boutique in Santa Monica, Calif. , says she bought orange accents gingerly for fall and next spring.

YC's three-month boot camp for startups, run twice a year in Mountain View, Calif. , attracts 1, 000 applicants for roughly 40 spots.

Just six weeks later, in June, the bulky, rectangular machines arrived at the social networking company's Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters.

Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif. , by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

"It's a pretty tight fit for water vapor and ice, " Colaprete said in a briefing at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

While the cookies can be strange, says the Novato, Calif. , mother of two, the whole family nevertheless cherishes Mikey's gifts.

So there we were in Monterey, Calif. , overlooking the vast blue Pacific.

Today, Ni practices Oriental medicine and is a licensed acupuncturist in Santa Monica, Calif.

Several environmental activists, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. , also have called for removing BPA from canned goods.

Further assistance came from the National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy located at Scripps Institute in La Jolla, Calif.

Mex. , Kim called an Anaheim, Calif. , sportswear company to order team jackets. The sales rep happened to be Krickitt.

In the one closest to me, in Sausalito, Calif. , hundreds of boats sit, unmoving, in their slips.

In 2002, Jackson performed his single Dangerous during the taping of the American Bandstand's 50th anniversary show in Pasadena, Calif.

Moller International, based in Davis, Calif. , is developing personal vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Eventually, she found work as a secretary in the Riverside County, Calif. , employment office.

Dillman, 72, a retired oncology research nurse in Newport Beach, Calif. , says of her husband, a 64-year-old medical oncologist.

The terms of the pact are confidential, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company said.

Then Mr. Beltzner executes a nifty pirouette and moves the robot, made by Willow Garage of Menlo Park, Calif. , to a charging station.

Mr. Munson grew up in a big house in Modesto, Calif.

Then Mr. Beltzner executes a nifty pirouette and moves the robot, made by Willow Garage of Menlo Park, Calif. , to a charging station.

Mr. Munson grew up in a big house in Modesto, Calif.

EBay, based in San Jose, Calif. , noticed how the service had gained a large following among eBay's customers.

This year, the Menlo Park (Calif. ) company gave 11 of them away to research institutions and companies at a total cost of $4 million.

Kathy Blake, 58, of Fountain Valley, Calif. , said she mainly wanted to help advance research.

Co-authors on the papers include colleagues at Chungbuk National University in South Korea and SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.

Last December, the executives met in Laguna Beach, Calif. , to discuss issues that had eroded trust among senior managers.

Wednesday at the Wall Street Journal's D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. , the big news was about Microsoft.

ATK will perform program management and systems engineering at a company facility in Goleta, Calif.

'It keeps the powder dry, ' says Tim Tarpening, senior portfolio strategist at Pacific Income Advisers in Santa Monica, Calif.

'It keeps the powder dry, ' says Tim Tarpening, senior portfolio strategist at Pacific Income Advisers in Santa Monica, Calif.

you would like to change so you can continue to get better as you practice, '; '; says peggy klaus, a leadership coach in berkeley, calif.

The couple from Pleasanton, Calif. , traversed cities, desert, mountains and farmland as they crossed 13 states.

Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D. , Calif. ) accused Mr. Hayward of stonewalling.

The Cupertino, Calif. -based company is due to report earnings for its most recent after the close of trading Tuesday.

Bei Zhicheng, the group's spokesman, said their complaints to the Cuptertino, Calif. -based company have been ignored.

After being featured on Oprah, Sacramento, Calif. , dismantled a tent city in April, moving residents into shelters.

The Cupertino, Calif. , company had 62 international stores at the end of December out of 283 overall.

Some employees can be seen on their Mountain View, Calif. , campus wearing T-shirts bearing the words "Web Nothing Me. "

Groundwater Replenishment System, Orange County, Calif.

Just 20 years ago, Gardner was homeless and living, on occasion, in a bathroom at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, Calif.

Nobody had spotted Jaycee Lee Dugard since she was abducted near a bus stop in 1991 in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Optimism over Mountain View, Calif. -based Google is reflected in its valuation.

Jockeys turn tail during the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile thoroughbred horse race at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. November 7.

The Cupertino, Calif. , company subsequently proved doubters wrong.

Those working in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, Calif. , metro were the best paid.

That's one piece of advice from Andrew Arredondo, 16, a junior at St. Genevieve High School in Panorama City, Calif.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif. ) has an iPad, as do some lobbyists, consultants and heads of associations in Washington.

The city of Vallejo, Calif. , burdened by police pensions, recently filed for bankruptcy.

Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. , on Tuesday said it was cutting about 600 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce.

Recipe from Chef Christopher Greenwald, Bay Laurel Culinary, Petaluma, Calif.

Illustrations: Elvis Shark, By Natalie Taylor of Oakland Calif. ; Sherman of Sherman's Lagoon, By Jim Toomey.

But when shopping in Malibu, Calif. , recently, she stopped herself before buying a gray Morgane Le Fay suit she'd tried on.

At Serra High School in San Mateo, Calif. , Bonds started in center field as a sophomore and batted . 404 in three seasons.

Plumas County, located in Sierra Nevada Calif. , boasts plenty of fall flavor.

While shareholders cheered the changes, Mr. Jobs flexed his power on Apple's Cupertino, Calif. , campus.

Outside their home in La Mesa, Calif. , owners have replaced green landscaping with rocks and cactuses.

"With time, everyone prefers it, " said Hasty Torres, owner of Madame Chocolat in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at China Lake, Calif. , is the contracting activity.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment before Tuesday's event, which is to take place at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

Wall-E lies on the queen-size bed of the "Paris Suite" at the D Pet Hotel in Hollywood, Calif.

Fisker is an Irvine, Calif. -based electric car maker that doesn't always announce its financing events.

Sources: Apple; The Fortune Archive; The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

LeisureLink Inc. , Pasadena, Calif. - Offers a management platform for vacation property owners.

Mountain View, Calif. -based Google also posted about the issue in a user support forum.

Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D. , Calif. ) said there still were 'major questions unanswered' about the need for bailout.

But later that spring, the student from Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, Calif. , got into Yale.

Charles Schwab picked and bagged walnuts at orchards around Sacramento, Calif.

That's far too harsh an assessment, says Ben Bajarin, 32, a technology analyst at Creative Strategies, a consulting firm in Campbell, Calif.

The Cupertino, Calif. , company said these activities apparently took place from October 2006 until the present.

For years, Susan Whitcomb says she has made good use of gratitude at her Fresno, Calif. -based leadership coaching business, The Academies.

Part-timer Anne Abreu, a San Mateo, Calif. , insurance specialist, knows her schedule puts her 'under the spotlight, ' she says.

Work on the contract will be at Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems segment in El Segundo, Calif. , and should be finished by 2010.

Occasionally he mentioned one of the Willis girls- Gussie Lee-who now lived in Sacramento, Calif.

They have been wagered by gamblers like Donna (who won $900 at a casino in Redding, Calif. ) and unselfishly given to charities.

The biggest mistake, says Charles Feltman, a leadership coach in San Luis Obispo, Calif. , is expecting immediate results.

Women's interfaith groups have also organized A-OK! weekends in Detroit and Orange County, Calif.

The San Mateo, Calif. , company also said Web shoppers also bought more items with each purchase.

' Now I understand what is in his heart , ' says Ms. Bloch, 58 , an artist who lives in Eureka, Calif.

Strawberry research fields in Watsonville, Calif.

Tabula is a Santa Clara, Calif. -based fabless semiconductor company focused on 3D programmable logic devices.

The Santa Clara, Calif. -based graphics chip maker introduced the new wired model at the Computex 2011 trade show in Taipei.

Larry Kramer, dean of Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif. , acknowledges there's a problem.

A girl plays in the sprinklers to beat the heat in Monterey Park, Calif. Monday, Sept.

Eric Geiselman takes to the air during a practice run prior to competing in the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, Calif. July 24.

Corcoran, Calif. , a small farming community, is smack in the middle of the first leg.

The Santa Monica, Calif. , company said it is considering several sites in Ohio for the facility.

Kiana, who lives in Culver City, Calif. , has had to face overwhelming struggles and challenges from day one.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Scott Adams doesn't just lampoon consultants in his Dilbert cartoon strip.

Competition was fierce at a July swimming meet in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

SB 14 is in flight test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. , and will be delivered to the Air Force in 2011.

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- There are no one-handed push-ups or headstands on the yoga mat for Gordon Murray anymore.

LOS GATOS, Calif. - Not a cash register is in sight.

The Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Mo. , and Sacramento, Calif.

The first game was tested in a bar in Sunnyvale, Calif. , called Andy Capp's Tavern.

The first life sciences company on our list, Cameron Health is a San Clemente, Calif. -based maker of implantable defibrillators.

Kim called an Anaheim, Calif . , sportswear company to order team jackets.

On Father's Day, I met with three of them for brunch at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, Calif.

Burke decided that his Sunnyvale, Calif. company needed to switch gears.

The Cupertino, Calif. , company is on a store-building binge in hopes of creating a massive new market for its products.

Descendants live outside San Francisco in Cortina and Colusa, Calif.

That's how Vanessa Broaten, a teacher from Anaheim Hills, Calif. , got her job after posting on several teaching websites.

Until recently, the Khans lived in Atherton, Calif. , one of Silicon Valley's highest priced suburbs.

She's studying to get her GED at a school for adults in San Bernardino, Calif.

The FBI also obtained a search warrant for Pang's Newport Beach, Calif. , residence.

The companies are both based in Santa Clara, Calif. , with head offices about a mile from each other.

Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.

H-P's PC business will be closely watched when the Palo Alto, Calif. , giant reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday.

The work will be performed at Coast Guard facilities in Norfolk, Va. , Oakland, Calif. and other locations.

Pro-Troll of Concord, Calif. , also puts chips in its lures.

He also said repeatedly that the Mountain View, Calif. , company's goal is to steer users to the most relevant information.

The Sunnyvale, Calif. , Internet pioneer owns roughly 40% of closely held Alibaba.

S. Communities as diverse as Lakewood, Colo. , and Long Beach, Calif.

Boeing will design and manufacture the 702 model spacecraft at its satellite factory in El Segundo, Calif.

Initially, Google's sales staff serviced clients in places like Singapore from their Palo Alto, Calif. , offices.

For Violet Affleck, 5, it's squeezing in some face time with dad Ben during soccer practice last June at a Brentwood, Calif. , park.

The sphere, made by Sage Cheshire Aerospace in Lancaster, Calif. , will be pressurized to 8 pounds per square inch.

Alibaba and Vendio, which is based in San Mateo, Calif. , said more than 80% of Vendio's customers have never used online supplier services.

Patrice Williams, 39, a management consultant from Vallejo, Calif. learned this the hard way.

Madeline Holler is a writer and mother of three living in Long Beach, Calif.

Synaptics, based in Santa Clara, Calif. , is also a major owner of intellectual property related to touch screens.

Buildings that tell the world how they are performing, including the David Brower Center in Berkeley, Calif.

One city that has fully instituted Shoup's market-pricing plan for street parking is Redwood City, Calif.

For the past 23 years, the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. , has hosted the now world-famous World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

Executives at the Mountain View, Calif. , company have kicked around other ideas with media executives in recent months.

Chestnut, of San Jose, Calif. , is ranked No. 1 in the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Bertoletti is rated second.

says Susan McClung Davis, a veterinarian at Aliso Beach Animal Clinic in Laguna Beach, Calif.

The Napa Valley Railway Inn, Yountville, Calif.

Local children sang along with Jackson in his performance ofHeal the World at the Super Bowl XXVII in 1993 in Pasadena, Calif.

His home town of Santa Clarita, Calif. , erupted in praise.

SSI also serves its customers from offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, La Quinta, Calif.

The two married in 2008 and remain happily co-employed at Cisco's San Jose, Calif. , campus.

CSC of El Segundo, Calif. , ranks No. 11 on Washington Technology's 2007 Top 100 list of the largest federal government prime contractors.

Barry Lamar Bonds was born July 24, 1964, in Riverside, Calif. , four years before his father made his debut with the Giants.

Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. , has a current stock market value of about $20 billion.

My wife and I now live in El Cajon, Calif. , where my Cub has a comfortable hangar15 at Gillespie Field.

A customer looks at beef at a Costco store in Mountain View, Calif. , in 2007.

The main American rare earths mine, in Mountain Pass, Calif. , closed in 2002, but efforts are under way to reopen it.

Many people living in tent cities like Taco Flats, in Fresno, Calif. , collect cans and bottles they trade for cash.

Recently, Yahoo's management has taken some steps aimed at improving morale, such as serving Tuesday-night dinner at its Sunnyvale, Calif.

Canesta, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. , has spent 11 years developing chips to power these types of 3-D cameras.

Work will be performed in Falls Church, Va. and San Diego, Calif.

El Segundo, Calif. -based Mattel makes toys based on DC Comics characters for many major retail outlets.

Topping the list was Manhattan Beach, Calif. , where 30% of the residents are single and the media income is $154, 860.

Some 2, 800 miles away from Wall Street, in Santa Monica, Calif. , Universa placed its trade.

In 2005, after a jury in Santa Maria, Calif. , acquitted Jackson of charges of molesting a 12-year-old boy, he decamped to Bahrain.

From 1990 until 1998 he was founder, director and vice president of Geron Corporation in Menlo Park, Calif.

The address for Exaflop is 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Calif. , which is Google's headquarters.

It took rescuers in Desert Hot Springs, Calif. , about 30 minutes to free the forlorn-looking pup from the 18-inch hole.

Police in Anaheim, Calif. , sought a bank robber who "smells like dirt" and has been called the Landscape Bandit.

The singer was acquitted in 2005 by a jury in Santa Maria, Calif.

Cathy Griffin and her boyfriend recently got dressed to go to Drago, a Santa Monica, Calif. , restaurant.

As recently as 1993, a group of parents attempted to ban the book in Corona-Norco, Calif. , because it "centered around negativity" .

Ms. Bartz served as executive chairman of Autodesk, of San Rafael, Calif. , which she ran as chief executive from 1992 to 2006.

Currently the map is centered over Palo Alto, Calif. at zoom level 13.

The winner is NetApp, a 5, 000-employee data- storage company based in Sunnyvale, Calif.

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 1 was built by Boeing's Phantom Works division in Seal Beach, Calif.

F&DP Kate Bertrand is a freelance writer based in the San Francisco, Calif. , area, who specializes in packaging, business and technology.

'If you only get 12 square feet out of 2, 000, you need to protect it, ' says Steve Miksis, an accountant in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Firefighters pour water on a burning a rail car loaded with 29, 000 gallons of liquid propane in Lincoln, Calif. , Wednesday, Aug.

Mary Bird, 65, of San Leandro, Calif. , is another traditionalist, if a reluctant one.

Whitman, who is normally very private, let cameras into her Atherton, Calif. home for a three-part documentary series airing this week.

The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division in China Lake, Calif. , awarded the contract, which has a five-year period of performance.

I know these are scams, but I'm sure there are a few people who might fall for them. What do I do with these e-mails? -Palmdale, Calif.

Shares of the Cupertino, Calif. , company were at $300. 14 on the Nasdaq Stock Market in 4 p. m. trading Wednesday, up $1. 60 from Tuesday.

The Palo Alto, Calif. , company now has more than 4 million users, has raised $29. 5 million in funding and employs 90 people.

Palo Alto, Calif. -based Box has raised a total $77. 5 million to date.

In Sacramento, Calif. , condo prices have fallen 59% from what they averaged in 2007, according to NAR.

San Carlos, Calif.

NEA, which has offices in Menlo Park, Calif. , Baltimore and Chevy Chase, Md. , made its first investment in China in 2000.

Fred Shragai, 59, of Encino, Calif. , is a good example.

At one point, Mr. Greenspan told the audience that he had been in Palm Springs, Calif. , on a recent trip.

Cisco, which is based in San Jose, Calif. , had $40 billion in cash on July 31.

Dugard was 11 years old when she was abducted as she was walking to her school bus in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Ken Muir, an engineer in San Jose, Calif. , had a similar surprisewhen he first saw the Leaf at a mall last year.

In North America, the Coast Guard said that one person was swept to sea near McKinleyville, Calif.

After three months he landed a job as product manager at Apria Healthcare in Orange County, Calif.

Shares of Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif. , jumped $4. 94, or 3. 8 percent, to $136. 71.

The investment will create 800 to 1, 000 permanent high-tech jobs and 6, 000 to 8, 000 construction jobs, Intel (Santa Clara, Calif. ) said.

The easiest city to find a job is Washington, D. C. , according to report, followed by San Jose, Calif. , Baltimore, Boston, and New York.