The California legislature approved on Thursday a bill that prohibits texting while driving. Adult violators would be fined $20 for first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses. But it needs the signature of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who earlier vowed not to sign any legislation until the state budget is approved.

The mother of a missing Orlando toddler is likely to be released from jail Sunday when a California bounty hunter and his nephew, a bail bondsman, post the $500,000 bond. Leonard Padilla and his nephew, Tony Padilla are on National Geographic's reality series, "Bounty Hunters," and they told reporters they think they can help find the missing child by spending time with the mother, Casey Anthony, and getting her to tell them more than she has told police.

Two Bigfoot hunters from Georgia will unveil Friday a photograph and DNA from a carcass of the legendary creature they claim to have found in the woods of Georgia. In a press statement, police officer Matthew Whitton and former prison guard Rick Dyer said they will present the evidence at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto from noon to 1 p. m. They claim that Bay Area Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi has examined the carcass of the Bigfoot stored in a freezer.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have been able to hide three-dimensional objects by using artificially engineered materials that redirected lights around the object. The discovery is one step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light. The researchers, led by Xiang Zhang, used metamaterials that deflected light, radar or other waves around an object such as water flowing around a smooth stone in a river.

Preliminary studies of the latest outbreak that killed at least 38 Warao Indians in northeastern Venezuela indicate that it may be a type of infectious rabies transmitted by bites from bats, according to indigenous leaders and researchers from the University of California at Berkeley. Though laboratory investigations have yet to confirm the cause, but the symptoms include fever, body pains, tingling in the feet followed by progressive paralysis point to rabies, said the husband-and-wife team of anthropologist Charles Briggs and public health specialist Dr. Clara Mantini-Briggs. The victims also had an extreme fear of water coupled with convulsions before death.