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You may have heard about a survey the Boy Scouts of America recently announced. The results of the survey -- which asked questions including whether a lesbian should be able to lead a cub scout den -- were supposed to guide those in charge at the national...

The email that claimed to be from FedEx looked real enough when it arrived in a Broward County sheriff sergeant's personal in-box. It advised that the deputy — who does not want his name used in this story because he works undercover — had a...

After announcing a controversial decision to shut down its Reader Web feed aggregator, Google is once again drawing heat -- this time for changing the way users write emails on Gmail. With the change, users now have to compose their email in a new...

Question: My kids and grandkids all tell me I need to get an iPad so I can see photos on their Facebook pages, use something called Facetime to talk to them and do e-mail, etc. I've only used a computer for basics, like typing a letter and an email once...

Since winning a spot in the runoff, mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti have spent much of their time rolling out new endorsements. But how much do these endorsements matter? The Times looks at how the backers, including a former president,...

The candidates vying in the May 21 election to be Los Angeles' top lawyer are questioning each other's ethics in increasingly harsh ways, dueling complaints made to authorities last week showed. Supporters of City Atty. Carmen Trutanich, widely...

SACRAMENTO — The most courageous politician in California — probably the nation — is a Berkeley city councilman, Gordon Wozniak. His gutsy act: proposing that the government tax email. Yes, sacrosanct, time-gobbling, out-of-control...

As a beekeeper, 70-year-old Ted Kaminski of Hastings thrives on observing and learning about the behavior of honeybees. “I think it’s the adventure of housing a wild creature, taking care of them, the biology of the honeybee and how...

In the news business, you can bank on animal stories getting an emotional reaction from readers. Especially when they involve pit bulls. Or cats. Last week offered a reminder of the powerful connection between humans and felines. In a guest column...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the FBI to stop issuing "national security letters" to phone companies and Internet service providers, denying the bureau an investigative tool it has used with alarming frequency to secretly gather logs of...

Do you enjoy being online, reading blogs, looking at helpful websites or getting inspired on Pinterest? If you are on the computer much at all, there are few helpful tricks that will make your life easier.  These aren’t rocket science, but they...