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The latest movie in the Twilight vampire romance series could take in about $140 million on its opening weekend in North America, box office watchers said, despite some blood-curdlingly bad reviews.

Japanese officials are investigating an apparent $4.9 billion hole in the accounts of Olympus Corp as well as possible involvement of organized crime in an accounting scandal engulfing the firm, the New York Times said Friday.

John A. Mattera was arrested Thursday for telling investors that they could buy shares of stock from Facebook, Twitter and other technology companies before their initial public offering.

Three men accused of stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars from 1,500 people have been arrested. The men had installed card-reading devices and surveillance video cameras on Chase ATMs near Union Square in January.

Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, AOL, LinkedIn and Zynga wrote a joint letter to Congress, urging the House of Representatives to prevent the Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law.

There’s been an upsurge of reporting on the happenings of young Americans. If the news isn’t reporting on the recession’s impact on fresh graduates, they’re noting that young Americans are marrying later in life and suffering from what some call “failure to launch syndrome.” As the New York Times so recently, and aptly, asked: “What is it about Twenty-Somethings?”

Cornell West, known as a provocative critic of social injustice, will leave his job at Princeton to work at the place where his career began, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.

A Queens activist, Patricia Dolan, who fought for pedestrian safety was killed when she was struck by a car Tuesday night, after stepping off a bus. She had planned to attend a committee meeting on transportation.

A team of weather scientists have released a 600-page report that predicts an increase in heat waves, heavy downpours and summer droughts in New York.

Bob Costas asked direct questions, and Sandusky appeared to stumble on his answers.

Calling former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky a coward for denying the 40 charges of child sex abuse against him, a lawyer for one of the alleged victims says comments by Sandusky and his attorney have spurred others to come forward, and condemned both the Second Mile founder and Penn State for victim-blaming and cover-up.

Less than four months before the Penn State sex abuse scandal erupted, Joe Paterno transferred full ownership of his Pennsylvania home to his wife, Suzanne, for $1 plus love and affection, according to county records.

YouTube's new premium content push featuring the likes of Madonna and Ashton Kutcher spurred speculation that the Google-owned site is issuing a direct challenge to the television industry.

Meet Malcolm McCormick -- a 19-year-old white Jewish rapper from the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pa. -- who currently has the No. 1 album of the week.

Xing Wu Pan, also known as Oliver Pan, is accused of taking $16,000 from an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman and distributing it to an unnamed candidate through 20 straw donors.

The New York Giants were allegedly partying in a club where one man was killed and two others injured early Tuesday morning.

The United Federation of Teachers has failed at its attempt to block the Department of Education from allowing the public to view of over 12,000 teachers' evaluations. The union will now file for an appeal at the highest court in state, The New York State Court of Appeals

The Pavilion dance club in Fire Island was destroyed late Monday night by a fire that raced through the Pines gay resort district, damaging a number popular establishments in the area.

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of the four co-founders of open source social networking start-up Diaspora, died at his home in San Francisco over the weekend. An officer from the San Francisco Police Department said Zhitomirskiy's death appeared to be a suicide, adding that the final decision would have to wait until after the medical examination procedures.

A heated custody battle has broken out between Texas Judge William Adams and his former wife, Hallie Adams. Adams' attorney, William Dudley, filed a motion Monday to block a temporary restraining order that was granted Thursday.

Occupy Wall Street activists vowed to take back Zuccotti Park Tuesday afternoon, hours after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered police to clear the park.

Reports Tuesday suggest that rather than auction itself to the likes of Microsoft or Walt Disney or to a private equity investor such as Silver Lake Partners or Providence Equity Partners, Yahoo may try a PIPE.

Libya's National Transitional Council is furious that Niger offered amnesty to Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi Gadhafi.

NBC's 'Community' has not been cancelled, the network says--just pulled from the mid-season lineup.

In a grand gesture to its ardent fashion following, The New York Times launched The Collection, a fashion app for the iPad on Monday Nov. 14.

Shortly after 1 a.m., police moved in and cleared OWS protesters from Zuccoti Park, making approximately 70 arrests.

Hundreds of New York police officers swarmed Zuccotti Park at Broadway and Pine in the early hours of Tuesday morning, evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters and razing the encampment they had built there over two months.

Police wearing helmets and carrying shields began early Tuesday morning to clear Zuccotti Park in New York City, where protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement have been camped since September.

Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach charged with child sex abuse, said on Monday he is not a pedophile, but admitted he showered with young boys.