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A police-cruiser video of the Montgomery County, Md., Police Department's traffic stop of Batman has surfaced, thanks to the Associated Press.

U.S. Silver Corp. enjoyed a bountiful 2011, with revenue, net income, and production all increasing, thanks primarily to the rise in the price of silver, while reserves rose for the fifth consecutive year, the company reported on Thursday.

Recent reports found that leading coffee chain Starbucks used crushed cochineal bugs in their Strawberry frappuccinos and smoothies in lieu of fruit flavoring. Now a new statement from the president of Starbucks U.S., Cliff Burrows, said that the crushed bug extract was also used in food items sold at the coffee chain.

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world’s biggest database software company, settled a price-fixing lawsuit against Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) for $58 million.

Honda said Friday it is recalling about 554,000 of its 2002 to 2004 model year CR-V SUVs and 2003 Pilot SUVs in the U.S. because the low beam headlights might fail.

The owner of British Airways PLC gained European Union approval Friday to buy U.K. airline British Midland Airways Ltd., known as bmi, from German owner Deutsche Lufthansa AG for $276 million.

Victor Alboini, whose Toronto-based fund firm began buying RIM shares last August and pulled in other investors such as Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisers, is doubtful the BlackBerry maker can survive much longer.

Arkansas' Supreme Court struck down a state law that bans teachers from having sex with students for being unconstitutional as it applies to sex between teachers and students who are 18 or older.

Six years after its inception in Sydney, Australia, an estimated 5,251 cities and towns in 147 countries and territories across the globe are expected to celebrate Earth Hour 2012. Co-Founder Andy Ridley explains...

Sears Holding Corp is mulling the sale of its Land's End clothing line to private equity firms, as the company hopes to ease ongoing problems with liquidity.

Apple fans are already clamoring for the iPhone 5, even though nobody outside of Cupertino knows what it looks like, what it can do, or when it's coming out. Thankfully, there are plenty of artists who love to draw up beautiful concept designs of the iPhone 5.

The popular image that Republicans drive pickup trucks and big SUVs and Democrats drive hybrids and station wagons may be more than just a stereotype, according to a report Friday from market research company Strategic Vision.

Now that new RIM CEO Thorstein Heins has shown he's taking aggressive action, here are some more ways to turn RIM around.

Jaleel White, formerly known as Steve Urkel of Family Matters and current Dancing with the Star competitor, is responding to allegations that he verbally and physically abused his ex-girlfriend and baby momma, Bridget Hardy.

Starting from wild rumors on iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3 to grand launch of Apple's legendary New iPad (or iPad 3) and once again the world witnessed Apple Mania!

Apple's third-generation iPad got debuted in the first week of March, and for many it could be the ideal tablet as compared to other brands in the tablet market. However, give it a second thought and throw it in cut-throat competition ring again to observe if it can sustain its position with the Android's best offerings as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is up for the challenge.

Are you a lover of cured meats? How would you feel to be buried for all of eternity in a bacon coffin? The bacon coffin-for those who love bacon to death -- is now a reality thanks to the makers of Baconnaise, but don't worry, it's not made of actual bacon. View the slideshow to see photos of the bacon coffin.

Adding to the much-hyped rumor about the next Apple iPhone, a tech website cited on Thursday a patent filing in the US Patent and Trademark Office and said Apple could be working on an advanced camera for mobile devices that could create three-dimensional (3D) models of scanned objects and that the new development might arrive on future iDevices like the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Melissa Jenkins, the Vermont science teacher murdered earlier this week by husband and wife, Allen and Patricia Prue, might not have been the first target for the killers. Jenkins neighbor, Ann Champney, is claiming that Allen Prue,30, began pursuing her teen daughter on Facebook in November.

Robert Rhoades, the serial killer trucker with a torture dungeon, avoided the death penalty in Texas this week when he pleaded guilty to killing newlyweds in 1990. The 66-year-old killer is instead serving two life sentences for his two counts of capital murder. The man, already in an Illinois jail for killing a 14-year-old girl, has no chance of parole.

Verizon Communications Inc, the nation's largest 4G LTE network and largest and most reliable 3G network provider, is now aiming to offer an integrated video service for its wireless customers, reports the Wall Street Journal. The company has also announced to expand its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to more than 25 towns in Middle Tennessee outside of Nashville within next few weeks.

According to a report, Apple devices such as the iPhone that use Google products like Maps and Google Search in its Safari browser generated over four times the revenue for the search engine giant than its own handsets between 2008 and the end of 2011.

After years of research on display technology, South-Korean conglomerate LG has announced the launch of the next generation electronic display paper for the e-book market and this time it is flexible and bendable and can be rolled up and put in bags.

After a sluggish beginning, Google seems to start afresh with its tablets. The Internet search giant is now gearing up to sell branded tablets directly to its customers through online stores, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. However, Google has not yet confirmed the report.

An audit by the Fair Labor Association has raised serious concerns over the working conditions at the Chinese factories of Foxconn Technology Group, which manufactures Apple products.

Best Buy Co Inc announced Thursday that due to a mulish slither in sales at its US stores, the company decided to close 50 big box stores and cut as much as 400 jobs at its corporate headquarters in Richfield, Minnesota.

What's the best way to watch the new McLaren MP4-12C GT3 drive incredibly fast while still looking amazing? On the Top Gear test track, of course.

Research In Motion Ltd. (Nasdaq: RIMM), the BlackBerry developer, reported a net loss of $125 million, or 24 cents a share, for the fourth quarter, as revenue plunged 25 percent to only $4.19 billion.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, located the engines from the Apollo 11 rocket that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969 14,000 feet underwater.