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Tomorrow hundreds will meet up for Startup School, YC’s annual event for gutsy hackers thinking about founding a company. It’s one of my favorite events, and this year’s attendees will get to hear fr...

At this time of the year, with the major league baseball playoffs in full swing and the World Series right around the corner, I occasionally find myself thinking about the legendary sports cartoonist, Bill Gallo.

DALLAS (AP) — The second makeover of the Dallas Mavericks in as many seasons just got tougher. Star forward Dirk Nowitzki had arthroscopic surgery on...

Apparently size doesn't matter to Mena Suvari, who has found love with a man shorter than she is.

Now that a court case has ensured that DC Comics superhero Superman will keep flying at Warner Bros. in the foreseeable future, the studio is readying their plans to move forward with the oft-mentioned Justice League fil...

An online observatory will webcast a free celestial marathon on Saturday (Oct. 20) to mark Astronomy Day, telling the story of our universe with the help of live shots from professional-quality telescopes.

"A detailed missing person's investigation became a complex hazardous material investigation combined with a very complex homicide," said Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.

Yesterday we brought you the story of Kyna Treacy, the woman on whom Alex Rodriguez was allegedly macking during Game 1 of the ALCS. The New York Post reported on Tuesday that A-Rod, after being pulled from the game, spi...

Edgar Davids made his long-awaited return to professional football after making his first appearance in two years.

There was once a couch. A regular, rented couch, and it was brown. It sat in Landry Fields' New York City apparent in relative anonymity. Then Jeremy Lin slept on it the night before he exploded against the New Jersey Ne...

Aaron Fisher was 14 when he finally came forward in 2008 to allege that Jerry Sandusky had been abusing him since he was 11. Fisher is the boy from Clinton County whose initial allegation prompted the grand jury investig...

He's being real coy about it if he is. When the Vikings quarterback was asked by fan on Twitter if he was dating Steele, he responded that he was. But since a four-word tweet isn't exactly ironclad confirmation, the myst...

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) - Davis Love III found the perfect tonic for any Ryder Cup hangover - playing golf, and playing well on a Sea Island course he knows better than anyone.

The curse, if you will, of the Yankees is that they cannot stop overpaying for aging sluggers and pitchers.

We all know that the Yankees are fat, overpaid losers who can't hit the ball. What you may have forgotten is that the Tigers—who just swept the Yankees—were fat, overpaid, hitless losers themselves just a f...

Featuring: your responses to the question of which pop song you want played upon your demise

It was one of the most devastating days in American music. Thirty-five years ago Saturday, a plane carrying the band Lynyrd Skynyrd ran out of fuel and crashed in Gillsburg, Miss.

Robert Kovacik, a reporter for NBC Los Angeles, managed to stay calm during a live news segment on Thursday night in which he shared camera time with a cockroach that probably just wanted to be on TV. To his credit, Kova...

During an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Matthew Fox gave fans a sneak peek at his newest project in which he stars as Mitt Romney. But don’t get too excited because the film is just a spoof. The �...

Nicholas Allegra, better known as Comex or the hacker who released several versions of the iPhone jailbreaking tool JailbreakMe, is no longer working at Apple. Comex was quite unexpectedly hired by Apple as an intern app...

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Is this heaven? No, it's Greenland — lit up by a display of refracted sunlight. 'Tis the season for stunning atmospheric effects, and not just in the Arctic.

Newsweek, the magazine that wasn't U.S. News & World Report or Time, is going completely digital and will offer something called Newsweek Global in place of its international selection of paper tiles. Editor Tina Brown d...