Erica Chang

The prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) begins registration for its first free online course today. The school, which announced its online initiative MITx back in December, will allow students to take the electronics course, 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics at www.mix.mit.edu.

FOX 5 anchorman and police commissioner's son Greg Kelly will be returning to his job at Good Day New York after being cleared of criminal rape charges, according to the New York Post. Kelly took a leave of absence last month.

A Chinese father has sparked a blacklash of outrage after forcing his nearly naked 4-year-old son to race around in the New York snow even while the boy pleads for him to stop, according to the New York Post. The video which has been made available online shows the little boy running around in the snow in nothing but a pair of shoes and yellow underwear. The child begs his father, 44-year-old He Liesheng, to pick him up but dad just keeps pushing him to run even more.

The 81-year-old grandmother of an officer on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's security detail was struck in the face by a stray bullet Wednesday as she was preparing to sit down for dinner, according to the New York Post. Agripina Camacho was shot in the cheek as a bullet pierced the window of her Brooklyn apartment.

The Brooklyn police officer who was shot in the head just last week is already walking again, according to the New York Post. 29-year-old Officer Kevin Brennan was shot by Latin King member Luis Baby Ortiz, 21, during a violent encounter at the Bushwick Houses on January 31. He has been recovering at Bellevue Hospital since the incident.

A recent study has revealed that 297 of the 12,000 police officers who first responded to the 9/11 attacks have been diagnosed with cancer, triple the rate before the tragedy according to the Huffington Post. The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) released figures that show that the cancer rate among NYPD officers has increased from six per year before the attacks to 16 per year after the attacks.

A teacher's aide at Miramonte Elementary has been accused of sending love letters to an 11-year-old boy. The woman, who has been identified as Areceli Luisjuan has sent at least three letters to the then-fourth-grader in 2009. One such letter read when you get close to me, even if you give me the chills I like that. Don't tell anybody about this! The letters were signed from Sad Girl but the mother of the student immediately discovered who the letters were truly from.

The international shark attack fire report for 2011 shows that fatal shark attacks across the world broke a two-decade record while attacks in the United States decreased over the last ten years.

The United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is testing out a new program that will allow passengers to speed through security screenings at airports. But to get through, they must volunteer background information about themselves prior to the security checkpoint. Those who comply will be allowed to pass through without removing shoes, jackets and valuables. The program, which has screened 336,000 passengers over several months of testing, will operate in 28 of the nation's ...

A young African-American man in Atlanta was ambushed and brutally beaten by members of a local gang for appearing to be gay. The assault took place on Feb. 4 and police were able to obtain footage of the attack from a nearby surveillance camera as well as from a YouTube video uploaded by one of the attackers. The video, which was also posted on WorldHipHop.com website, went viral overnight.

Jury selection for Yeardley Love murder trial began today and the trial is set to commence on Monday. If convicted of first degree murder, Huguely could face life in prison.

The federal appeals court will announce on Tuesday it's ruling on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's ban on gay marriage. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Monday morning that it plans to reveal the long-anticipated verdict by 1 p.m. ET.

Amazon.com may be opening a small retail store in Seattle within the coming months. According to the Good E-Reader blog, Amazon is primarily interested in testing out the market and seeing whether a chain of stores could prove profitable or not. However, rather than constructing a mega-store, the online retailer plans on opening a boutique-like shop that focuses on the sales of their e-readers, tablets and other high-end products.

Scarlett Johansson is seeing advertising executive Nate Naylor

Claremont McKenna College, a prestigious liberal arts school in California, has admitted inflating the SAT exam scores of students in order to boost its standing in national school rankings.

In 2010, Child Protective Services received over three million notices regarding the alleged maltreatment of nearly six million children. Of the referrals that were eventually screened and investigated, the CPS determined that over 1,500 children died from abuse and neglect that year. Now a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found, “The total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of confirmed cases of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psych...

Following the Tampa Bay Republican debate on Monday night, former Cuban President Fidel Castro released an opinion piece this morning blasting the Republican presidential candidates.

Concluding a two day meeting, the Fed released it's plans for monetary policy through 2014 today. Fed plans to keep the interest rate near zero through 2014.

Kyrgyzstan prisoners sewed their lips together to protest poor prison conditions. Prison authorities blame strike on criminal gang leaders.