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The Christmas Day house fire that killed Madonna Badger's three daughters - Lily, Grace and Sarah -- and her parents - Lomer and Pauline Johnson -- was caused by discarded hot embers removed from the fireplace, authorities report.

Cellphone Review Site Phonedog is suing ex-employee Noah Kravitz, claiming his 17,000 twitter followers are actually property of their company.

The father of Madonna Badger, who lost her three children and parents in the Connecticut Christmas Fire, died trying to save his granddaughter, according to ABC's Good Morning America.

The Obama administration is debating allowing Yemen's outgoing president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to travel to the U.S. for medical treatment, a senior administration official said Monday.

To reduce/eliminate climate change, the U.S. must sub nuclear power for coal at electric power generating plants, until more-advanced energy forms are available. And France is a good model to follow: it generates almost 79 percent of its electricity from nuclear technology and has successfully reprocessed nuclear fuel for decades.

The parents of Madonna Badger, whose Connecticut house was engulfed by fire on Christmas Day, would have celebrated their 49th anniversary on Monday, a family friend told The New York Times.

Both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have been ousted from the primary after failing to collect enough valid signatures to run, and while Perry's campaign has been over for months, the loss of Super Tuesday state Virginia for Gingrich is a devastating blow. Months after he was declared dead-on-arrival, is Gingrich's comeback already over?

It often seems these days that in all walks of life, whether in politics, business, sports, arts, and, yes, journalism, character too often gives way to popularity, to fame, to money, or to power. Character is an individual thing.

The missing owner of the Whisk Bakery Café in Ditmas Park, Joshua Rubin, 30, was found dead in Pennsylvania. The slain man’s charred remains were found in the woods outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania on Nov. 1, though his body wasn’t identified until this week.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, signaled that if the payroll tax reduction extension deal is not approved by the House via unanimous consent on Friday, he'll call the House back into session for a vote next week. Odds are, given the tax cut's popularity, the House GOP will approve it Friday, but as Yogi Berra famously said, It ain't over til it's over.

Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in guard tower in Afghanistan on Oct. 3 with what the Army described as an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Eight of his fellow soldiers have been charged.

Done deal. Both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayer Michael Bloomberg have signed a controversial bill that will allow livery cabs to pick up passengers off the street throughout the five boroughs. Bloomberg alluded to the coming deal in a press conference on Wednesday where he celebrated the 50 millionth tourists to visit New York City.

Yahoo Inc is considering a plan to unload most of its prized Asian assets in a complex deal valued at roughly $17 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on

Al-Jazeera's good year just got a whole lot better.

Instances of alleged censorship of Twitter profiles aligned with controversial topics such as Occupy Wall Street, SOPA and NDAA continue to be exposed, and leading Web experts are scrambling to debunk the claims.

Shares of troubled search engine and media developer Yahoo surged nearly 6 percent late Wednesday after a report the company may unload its stake in China’s Alibaba Group for about $17 billion.

Two stores with idiot-proof rolling machines that would sell you cigarette-paper tubes and loose 'baccy and let you use machines on the premises to bang out your own will stop it.

A devastating plane crash on New Jersey's I-287 left five dead in a business trip turned sour. What's more is that for a small plane, the wreckage was huge.

A Socata TBM-700 plane crash on Interstate 287 in Morris Township, New Jersey that killed five people could have been caused by icing, according to reports.

For anyone who follows film, television, publishing and newspapers -- our culture industry -- Robert Levine, the former editor of Billboard and a New York Times alum, has written a must-read book.

A scam has stolen millions of dollars from an Orthodox rabbi, according to the New York Times.

From Hollywood hipsters to New York subterraneans, the watch has become the thing. Or, at least so the major newspapers would have you believe.

Two FDNY firefighters were burned while responding to a fire in Brooklyn, which was caught on video, and are in serious condition.

The secrecy shrouding the death of Kim Jong-il doesn't seem to surprise many, given the adamantly reclusive politics played by this cult leader of North Korea. However, the troubled Asian nation, has achieved what is considered almost impossible under the watchful eyes of neighboring South Korea and the U.S. Until the North Korean Central News Agency decided to announce the death of Kim, the South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials had absolutely no clue that something rather critical was...

Rats are the grinches of this holiday season at one midtown Manhattan post office. They didn't quite steal Christmas, but they've eaten their way through a number of care packages, according to the New York Times.

As sales of tablets surge, the fortunes of newspaper publishers may soon begin to turn.

Sailors had roughly 30 minutes before freezing to death in the icy cold waters of the Sea of Okhotsk where the floating platform listed in heavy seas and sank.

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney receives millions of dollars a year in a retirement agreement with Bain Capital, nearly 13 years after he left the private equity firm he helped start, the New York Times reported Monday.

One day after saying he favored the payroll tax reduction extension agreement approved by the U.S. Senate, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he and his caucus will oppose the tax reduction deal. Boehner said House Republicans now want additional budget reductions to finance the extension agreement.