George Zimmerman made statements to Sanford, Fla., police that help establish his guilt of second-degree murder for killing Trayvon Martin, prosecutors said in a court filing on Thursday.
Police made the fist arrest in the Etan Patz case Thursday, when they held Pedro Hernandez, a 51-year-old man from Maple Shades, N.J., on a murder charge. Hernandez confessed to choking Patz to death after luring him into the basement of a convenient store with the promise of a soda.
As soon as the door opened, 15 men -- armed with pistols, machetes and iron rods -- burst into the house and began beating the young Angolan musicians and activists who were known for protesting against government corruption and the use of violent tactics to suppress political dissent.
Pedro Hernandez has been arrested in the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Thursday evening.
The staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its investigation into Lehman Brothers Holdings and will not likely recommend charges, according to the excerpt of a memo.
Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with customer orders.
Global stocks eked out gains on Thursday while the euro fell as data suggested Europe's debt woes were spreading and worsening a global economic slowdown.
Six days after the company's IPO and two months after it acquired photo-sharing app company Instagram for $1 billion, Facebook debuted a photo app of its own on Thursday, called Facebook Camera. Here, we'll break down Facebook Camera, and evaluate whether or not the new app has added value over Instagram.
Beach fronts, rocky coasts, rustic farms, tennis courts and saunas paint the setting for a perfect getaway; in Norway it's the backdrop of a prison.
Investors are increasingly making a flight to quality as they pull out of credit-default swaps hedges on Europe's primary index as well as the markets for periphery nations like Spain, a trend which indicates higher expectations that periphery nations are unable to repay their debts and a lack of confidence in the political will of the economic union.
Pedro Hernandez, the man in custody in connection with the1979 Etan Patz disappearance case, confessed to the boy's killing. However, law enforcement sources are telling the media they remain skeptical of the claim because some things don't add up with known facts.
Two U.S. Army reservists say the ban on women serving in combat roles violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Tired of reaching in your freezer only to pull out your half-eaten ice cream when it was supposed to be full? Ben & Jerry's has created a solution to that pesky, ice cream-stealing roommate problem: a lock for your pint of ice cream. Ben & Jerry's re-introduced the Euphori-Lock, a lock that slide over the lid of your ice cream and locks it.
Apple's senior VP of industrial design Jonathan Jony Ive, who was also Apple founder Steve Jobs' closest friend and confidant, was asked by The Telegraph what project he would like to be remembered by. Even though Ive is behind some of Apple's most courageous product designs, the design guru actually said Apple's current project could be his finest hour.
SumOfUs, the Washington, D.C.-based liberal group that pressured Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, about its Chinese contractors, is keeping the pressure on.
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A source in the bank did not provide the reasons behind the dismissal.
The Ohio House on Thursday is expected to vote on a bill that would bolster the state's rules on hydraulic fracturing
In the event he is found sane, he will be sent to prison for up to 21 years.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said Thursday that manufacturing growth in the Midwest and part of the Rocky Mountain region rebounded in May and that firms were more optimistic than in previous months.
Gore-Tex Heiress, Susan Gore, has been denied the right to adopt her 65-year-old ex-husband as a means to boost her family's inheritance fortune.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, rose $1.03 to close at $33.03 on Thursday. A week ago, they were priced at $38 for the IPO.
GPEI warned that failure to eradicate polio could lead to as many as 200,000 paralyzed children a year across the globe.
Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, didn?t just set records for enriching inside investors like CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg, Accel Partners and Digital Sky Technologies. Underwriters fared very well.
American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) was partially rebuffed in its effort to get $10 billion out of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) Wednesday, as a Los Angeles U.S. district judge dismissed some of the New York re-insurer's claims in its securities lawsuit against the giant Charlotte, North Carolina- bank.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, are up six cents to $32.06 in late morning trading on Thursday.
MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) said Thursday it will appeal a decision by Europe's second-highest court rejecting the credit card company's argument against an EU ban on cross-border card fees, Reuters reported.
In economic news, the euro data was overwhelmingly negative, which interestingly enough did not propel the euro lower.
In 2008, when the financial crisis was taking form, it was the US who sneezed and the world who caught a cold.
U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rates dropped to 3.78 percent in the week ending May 24, down slightly from 3.79 percent in the previous week, mortgage financier Freddie Mac said Thursday.
