He leads a big church in California and has sold millions of copies of books about "The Purpose Driven Life."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Ellen Yeh from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California was one of the authors of the study.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

That was mostly when fuel prices were so high last year that people in California were not driving to her stores.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

He landed in California. He left a hole so deep that to this day it is known as Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Next Sunday night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Academy Awards in Los Angeles,California.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Sports fans know the University of Southern California for its athletics, but students say they come for the strong academic programs.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The recession has hit especially hard in California, home of the world's eighth largest economy and one out of eight Americans.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

It followed his journey from poverty in Texas to the theater in New York City and the film world of Hollywood,California.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Then he would announce that he was going away to Europe or to California, or to Egypt for a while.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Yet sleep scientist Ying-Hui Fu at the University of California, San Francisco,says little is known about the basic need for sleep.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

And,the University of California at Los Angeles offered him a college education if he played for the UCLA tennis team.

VOA: special.2010.02.07