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Mitchell Guist, Bayou denizen and one of the humbler members of the History Channel's Swamp People, died on Monday, falling into the body of water he spent a lifetime calling home. And in this modern American culture, we'll most likely relegate him to the dustbin of ancillary reality TV characters. We shouldn't.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, announced that it would increase the number of shares in its initial public offering, price them higher and value the company at as much as $104 billion.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with the futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones up 0.6 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.8 percent at 0733 GMT.

Facebook will close the books on its $10.6 billion initial public offering on Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule and a signal that Silicon Valley's largest IPO is drumming up strong demand.

The effects of Bobby Petrino's infamous motorcycle crash are just beginning to be realized.

Rumors have been swirling around the Internet for months that one day the newest feature on Facebook, Timeline, would become mandatory and it appears the date has been set for May 21, just three days the company is slated to go public. On Monday, some of the remaining Facebook users who haven't converted to the Timeline feature received a message on top of their page, informing that the mandatory rollout would take place next week.

The social network is expected to make the internet's largest initial public offering ever recorded at an estimated company valuation of $96 Billion. Projecting such high figures, investors unfamiliar with the IPO market and more familiar with Facebook as a company will most likely be asking themselves -- what's the worst that could happen?

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 on Monday, and his true birthday present will arrive on Friday when the social networking site sells stock and begins trading on Nasdaq. But he's not the only young gun out there.

Facebook Inc will close the books on its mammoth $10.6 billion initial public offering Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the deal.

The new season of ABC's The Bachelorette will premiere Monday, May 14, and Southern beauty Emily Maynard is ready to find love. Emily Maynard first became a primetime sensation when she appeared on Season 16 of ABC's 'The Bachelor. Maynard, a stunning 26-year-old from North Carolina, stole America's heart when she discussed her sorrowful past on The Bachelor. Now she is ready to find her own Prince Charming.

The world's youngest billionaire has turned 28, and his birthday has come as a landmark moment for his company, as Facebook Inc is all set to start trading.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Monday, with S&P 500 futures down 1 percent and contracts for the Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 down 0.9 percent.

New Bachelorette Emily Maynard is ready to take another shot at love. The beautiful Southern belle might not have found a soul mate in Brad Womack on ABC's The Bachelor, but Maynard has another chance at finding her Prince Charming with her very own season of The Bachelorette and 25 bachelors to choose from. Host Chris Harrison said Emily Maynard's new season will be the most drastically different yet.

Scott Thompson is stepping down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his biography, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.

For months, Yahoo has been in crisis. Market share fell. CEO Carol Bartz was fired. A Chinese tycoon said he?d buy the company.

A Moroccan woman was reportedly stripped off her cloths in broad daylight after an ultra-conservative Islamist sect deemed her attire to be too revealing and not in line with religious code of conduct in the country.

Sony Mobile Communication is one of the leading Android smartphone manufacturers to challenge Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X with its latest flagship devices.

As many as 79 percent of surveyed mobile app developers are planning to integrate HTML5 in the apps they will launch in 2012, said a latest report by International Data Corporation (IDC).

A calico lobster that has been living a quiet life off the coast of Maine until it was caught and sold to a local fish restaurant. However, a sympathetic staff decided to save the rare lobster with orange and yellow spots that researches claims is 1 in 30 million specimen.

The story around the highly publicized sexual assault lawsuits filed against John Travolta by two masseurs continues to raise eyebrows. Earlier this week two unnamed men filed lawsuits against the actor claiming that he sexually assaulted them during a massage. Yet TMZ released proofthat the actor has was in New York on January 16th when the first incident allegedly took place in Beverly Hills.

Somewhere amid all the anger and glee of Obama's same-sex marriage comments, the Visit North Carolina Facebook page found itself the soap box for anyone and everyone with a message.

A tip from a concerned citizen led the authorities to where the fugitive, Adam Mayes, shot and killed himself as his kidnapped victims, who have been held captive since April 27, watched.

Eduardo Saverin, a Harvard buddy of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, surrendered his U.S. passport last year when he renounced citizenship, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service said.

In a what is turning out to be a most bizarre missing persons case, there are still no solids leads that indicate what exactly happened to movie executive Gavin Smith. Smith, who is known for having distributed blockbusters such as Titanic and Avatar, went missing on May 1, after reportedly returning from a conference in Las Vegas, NV.

Who is Jamie Lynne Grumet? Jamie Lynne Grumet was just another blonde wife and mother of two living in Los Angeles and writing her blog, I am not the babysitter. Then Grumet's life changed Wednesday when TIME Magazine's May 21 cover showed her breastfeeding her nearly 4-year-old son, Aram -- turning Grumet into an international topic of conversation.

University of West Georgia student Aimee Copeland, who is fighting the flesh eating disease necrotizing fasciitis after a zip line injury, is recovering slowly despite the amputation of her left leg. Her family remains optimistic, though doctors say they may have to amputate her other leg and both her hands.

Twitter, the mobile messaging giant, said it had acquired RestEngine, a social marketing company specializing in emails, mainly to obtain its developers.

Facebook's record initial public offering is already oversubscribed, a source familiar with the share listing said Thursday night, days after the world's largest social network embarked on a cross-country roadshow to drum up investor enthusiasm.

Bing, the third most popular search engine in America, has been drastically redesigned. Even more shocking than the site's fresh new look is the new social media integration.