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LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) -- Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began snaking across their walls in March. The cracks soon turned into gaping fractures, and with...

Who has a more meaningful jewelry box than Mom? Click to see the sentimental pieces that stars like Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow are keeping in the family.

Bloomberg reporters didn't only use Bloomberg terminals (the machines most widely used by the financial sector to monitor the market) to spy on Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan . They also spied on the activities of Fed Chairma...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans police say 17 people have been wounded in a shooting during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday.

Goodbye Harley-Davidson. Hello Shake Shack. The popular New York-based burger chain, helmed by Danny Meyer of Eleven Madison Park restaurant fame, is moving in at 66 E. Ohio St., a spot currently occupied by a Harley-Dav...

As many as 12 people have been shot and injured during a Mother's Day parade in the US city of New Orleans, police say.

VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities have arrested the 12-year-old brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a rural Northern California community last month. The boy, who was not id...

Nettie Grove shuffled to the door on her walker, still wearing her nightgown in the late afternoon, and invited me in. I had come to hear how Raleigh bought the...

Longtime "Saturday Night Live" cast member Seth Meyers will replace Jimmy Fallon as the host of NBC's "Late Night" show, Entertainment Weekly reports. The announcement was made Sunday by Bob Greenblatt, the chairman of N...

This week, we saw the U.S. stock markets establish new all-time highs, climbing 145% from its March 2009 lows. Unfortunately, since the bull market began, fewer and fewer adult Americans have been invested in stocks. Fro...

Facebook Home has finally hit 1 million downloads exactly one month after being released for Android, according to install numbers in the Google Play store At a press event on Thursday, Facebook's director of mobile engi...

It's a rare fall rainy day in Palo Alto and SAP Executive Board Member Dr. Vishal Sikka is as sick as a dog. It's less than a week until SAP Sapphire in Madrid and the community around him are like a worrying family. I h...

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A bridge over the Rouge River near Detroit sustained severe damage early Sunday morning, after the operator began lowering the drawbridge as a 670-foot freighter ship was passing under, Detroit Free Press reports. From A...

Chicago cop Edward Leighton was a block away when he learned of a fire in the Lawndale neighborhood Saturday. Without pausing to think, he ran into the smoke-filled apartment building and helped save two women, six child...

Can telemedicine and digital health bring back the house call?

Here's the thing that really puzzles me about this whole business of the IRS targeting tea party groups for extra scrutiny: the agency's clumsy handling of the whole thing. And I'm being charitable by calling it "clumsy....

BBC's coverage of Olympics loses out to Channel 4's Paralympics programming It was the television event of the year with a peak audience of more than 23 million viewers. But the BBC's acclaimed coverage of the London Oly...

EBRD chief Riccardo Puliti warns Europe not to be hasty in adopting 'ideological' policy on carbon intensity funding One of Europe's most influential government-owned investors in the energy industry has hinted it may ex...

Are you an Android user who's been hoping for a service similar to the iOs GameCenter or XBox Live on your phone? Fear not, your wishes may be granted sooner than you think.

(Reuters) - At least nine people, including a young girl, were shot on Sunday when gunfire erupted at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, police said.

Nokia announced its latest Lumia 928 handset on Friday, but the company has more planned for an event in London next week. On Sunday, Nokia teased part of this announcement during a commercial break on British TV. The sh...