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A Louisiana man decapitated and dismembered his disabled 7-year-old son and left the boy's head on the street so the child's mother would see it, authorities said Monday.

Making its biggest deal ever, Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings for a massive $12.5 billion, which analysts see as an attempt to fend off increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals like Apple.

Starbucks' (SBUX) Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz has a solution for the nation's partisan political divide that's prevented (so far) a substantive, long-term plan to cut the budget deficit: boycott donating to political campaigns.

Bay Area Rapid Transit authorities closed San Francisco's Civic Center Station Monday afternoon to control a protest against an earlier cellphone shutdown.

The Warren Buffett New York Times op-ed has caused quite a stir. Buffett argued that the U.S. needs to cut the budget deficit by ?far more than? the currently $1.5 trillion 10-year cut put in place by the U.S. debt ceiling deal.

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility had wide-ranging impacts on Monday, notably on technology stocks. Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), Nokia (NYSE:NOK), and Research in Motion (NYSE:RIMM) all saw big stock price jumps during Monday's trading.

Father was sleeping when attacked by son.

Shares on Wall Street rose with oil prices on Monday as acquisition news and stronger-than-expected economic data in Japan led markets to steadily forge ahead after last week's wild swings.

In the patent war over Samsung's Galaxy tablet in Europe, Apple may have released false evidence to the German courts against the Korean firm.

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a sleeping passenger during a May 2010 flight from Hong Kong to Newark.

Hundreds of Verizon workers in red shirts interrupted a nine-day-old strike to place a wreath at a site in suburban New York on Monday morning, where a colleague was fatally injured on a picket line 22 years ago. The union workers began reportedly one of the biggest labor strikes in recent U.S. history on Aug. 7.

Despite some exterior changes, reported photos hint that the inside of at least one out of 22 imposter Apple stores with familiar wooden tables and Apple-like signage, remain unchanged. A blog that gained international attention for calling out the bogus stores led to the closure of two fake Apple stores by Chinese officials in July.

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Some would have you believe the U.S. Congress can't do much to create jobs: not true. If Congress says "build us an aircraft carrier," a short time later, an aircraft carrier will appear. Likewise for roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, and the electric grid -- all of which in the U.S. need work and would create jobs.

The stock market made it three up days in a row Monday, thanks to slew of acquisitions that has observers wondering if Wall Street is getting back its Mojo.

Does anyone recall last Monday's stock market panic?

Warren Buffett has touched a national nerve.

Dell;'s earnings may show progress, moves in tablets and smartphones

MAG Silver Corp., a junior mining company based in Vancouver with operations in Mexico, said it swung to a profit in the second quarter and trimmed its loss for the first half of the year.

U.S. solar company Evergreen Solar Inc filed for bankruptcy on Monday, its once cutting-edge technology falling victim to competition from cheaper Chinese rivals and to solar subsidy cuts in Europe.

College students can trade textbooks, other items for Amazon gift cards.

Mobile Technology is taking a turn with Google buying Motorola Mobility. Here's give things to know about the acquisition.

A recent report says Apple is going to ship out 26 million iPhone 5 units by the end of the year.

The latest expansion of an already bloated federal government is a program aimed at putting free mobile telephones into the hands of low-income Americans.

Institutional investors, turned off by a slow-growth economy that?s led to low-return stocks, piled in to oil, driving up its price, worsening the economic conditions that led them to invest in oil in the first place.

Under the deal, Motorola Mobility will remain licensee of Android, which will stay open and available for use by other hardware manufacturers at no cost.

The Verizon strike of 45,000 landline employees has hit its ninth day and doesn't show any signs of stopping anytime soon, as the two sides continue to stand far apart on many issues.

Suspect admitted to suffocating girl with garbage bag.

Carl Icahn benefits from Motorola Mobility's sale. He has other tech investments.