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Four former National Football League players, including two Pro Bowl players, sued the league over brain injuries that they say left them facing medical problems years after their careers ended.

One of the alleged victims was Kelley Blanchet, one of Conlin's own nieces.

SRG Ventures has slapped Jersey Shore pint-sized star Nicole Snooki Polizzi a $7 million counterclaim, as the lawsuit between her and the licensing company heats up.

In an effort to continue busting myths that surround homosexual and bisexual lifestyles, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggesting that same-sex marriages could cut the number of mental and physical illnesses experienced by those in these relationships.

Malie Metalwala, the four-year-old sister of missing Texas toddler, Sky Metalwala, has been returned to the custody of their father, Solomon Metalwala, on Friday.

Colton Harris Moore, better known perhaps as the Barefoot Bandit (so named after a famous crime spree that he committed barefoot), has been sentenced to 7-and-a-half years in prison, after he pleaded guilty on Friday in a Washington state court, on all 33 charges against him.

Atlanta police say the rapper Slim Dunkin, whose real name is Mario Hamilton, was gunned down Friday as he prepared to record a video, according to The Associated Press.

A judge ruled on Friday that two former senior officials at Pennsylvania State University must stand trial on charges of lying to a grand jury about what they knew of sexual-abuse allegations against a former football coach, Jerry Sandusky.

Jermaine Huggy Hopkins, who starred as Thomas Sams in the 1989 movie Lean On Me, was arrested in Phoenix, Ariz., on charges of buying 200 pounds (91 kilograms) of marijuana from an undercover cop on Tuesday.

U.S. safety investigators called on Tuesday for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use while driving, a prohibition that would include certain applications of hands-free technology becoming more common in new cars.

Three deer hunters have been detained, one of them having been arrested on suspicion of trespassing, for possibly shooting two male students participating in outdoor basketball tryouts at Harwell Middle School in south Texas on Monday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino told The Associated Press that authorities have theorized that the two were hit by errant or stray bullets fired from hunting pastures near the school.

People who knew recent Virginia Tech gunman Ross Ashley have painted polarizing pictures of his personality and attitude, which makes his motive for his killing even that much more mysterious.

John Atterberry, chief of the Death Row Records, died Monday after being shot in the face by a rampaging gunman on a Hollywood street Friday morning.

A decorated NYPD police officer was shot in the face and killed while responding to a break-in robbery at a Brooklyn apartment on Monday, according to reports.

A Virginia woman who has faked having ovarian cancer since her twenties was arrested on Thursday on two misdemeanor counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, according to a Hanover County Sheriff's Office press release.

Soon after the case of fake doctor Oneal Ron Morris was busted, a series of cases have started coming to light of other doctors, apparently practicing illegal cosmetic plastic surgeries. The latest case is that of a woman doctor who killed a 22-year-old man after injecting his penis with silicone during pumping party, said police on Friday, according to a report in the Daily Mail.

Swiss and U.S. officials have met in recent days in Berne, Switzerland, to try to end a long-running dispute over wealthy Americans using secret Swiss accounts to dodge taxes, and they seem to be getting closer to a deal, two newspapers reported Sunday.

Pakistani model and actress Veena Malik will participate in an Indian TV reality show where she will choose her husband. Swayamvar Season 4- Veena Ka Vivaah will be aired on Image TV.

The former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star, Hulk Hogan, filed a defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Linda Bollea, on Thursday, in Clearwater Fla. He claims her new autobiography, Wrestling the Hulk: My Life against the Ropescontains less than accurate information about him.

A fire tore through a seven-story private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata before dawn Friday, killing at least 84 people, most of them intensive care patients who were asleep and suffocated in the fumes.

Tulsa, Okla. police arrested a woman Thursday for stealing and mixing chemicals to make meth inside of a Wal-Mart.

There is, apparently, yet another fake doctor doing the rounds.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction because a juror tweeted and another slept during the trial.

U.S. federal prosecutors, on Thursday, recommended a 15-month prison sentence for former Major League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds.

The report was the result of a 2010 law requiring a survey of New York's jury pools to determine whether jurors represent a fair cross-section of the population.

Virginia Tech officials have lifted the campus lockdown and said they have recovered a weapon following the shooting death of a police officer and an unidentified man on Thursday.

Family Court Judge Susan Larabee refused to release the 12-year-old boy who pushed a shopping cart from the fourth-floor walkway outside a Target store in Harlem, striking 47-year-old mother and philanthropist Marion Hedges and putting her into a coma, from minimum security jail because of his history of erratic behavior.

A gunman killed a police officer and another person on Thursday at Virginia Tech University, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in U.S. history, school officials said.

A Virginia Tech police officer and an unidentified victim were shot and killed by an unidentified suspect on Thursday afternoon on the school's campus.