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Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams who was secretly videotaped beating his daughter Hillary seven years ago won't face any charges because the statute of limitations have passed.

The Occupy Wall Street movement gains much of its man-power from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. It comes as no surprise then that Wall Street has decided to capitalize on this social media force. The New York Stock Exchange is hosting a Social Media Day Friday, which is the first of its kind at the NYSE.

HTC Corp <2498.TW> said its latest smartphone, the Rezound, will be its first U.S. phone to include audio technology from Beats Electronics, a company it took control of earlier this year.

Investors want to lift the shroud of secrecy over the proposed $8.5 billion settlement of Bank of America Corp's mortgage-backed securities liability in the coming weeks, a lawyer said on Wednesday.

Actress and film producer Lucy Liu is expanding her talents into the art world with a new book of illustrations that explores Kabbalah and meditation.

Submarine Entertainment has been busily selling the DVD and home entertainment rights to Robert B. Weide's documentary on director Woody Allen.

Shares of Embraer , the world's third-largest commercial planemaker, suffered the worst drop on Brazil's benchmark stock index on Thursday after reporting weak results and disclosing a bribery investigation.

The Iraq/Afghanistan Wars have been costly, but the United States' longer trend of spending too much on defense and not enough on public goods over two decades could end up costing the economy and the nation far more.

Apple's Siri technology from the record-selling iPhone 4S has been only intermittently available today for hundreds of people, and the twitter-verse predictably went a bit crazy. People began tweeting earlier today that the Siri voice recognition would launch, but it would not answer questions or perform its other functions

For the U.S. economy, it all comes back to the housing market.

DirecTV's record number of quarterly subscriber additions show that even in a tough economy Americans will pay up for one of their favorite pastimes -- live sports on TV.

Fewer Americans filed new claims for jobless benefits last week while the country's vast service sector continued to grow last month, according to data on Thursday that showed the U.S. recovery was on track, though not speeding along.

Starbucks Corp's quarterly profit rose after the summer's economic jitters failed to dilute the coffee buying habits of the world's largest coffee chain's customers.

Stocks rallied for a second day on Thursday as Greece backed away from a proposed referendum that threatened its membership in the euro, which could destabilize global markets.

The United States agreed to a compromise allowing Zimbabwe to export diamonds that human rights groups say are tainted by abuses, to prevent the paralysis of the global system for stopping trade in blood diamonds, the State Department said on Wednesday.

Michael Jackson paid with his life for the criminal negligence of his personal doctor that also left the pop singer's three children without a father, prosecutors told a Los Angeles jury on Thursday.

Increasing shale play in the region has environmentalist increasingly concerned and towns thrilled.

Thursday is National Sandwich Day, a celebration of the American staple. The holiday is celebrated on Nov. 3 to commemorate the 293rd birthday of John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich. Montagu is credited with inventing the concept behind the sandwich, two pieces of sliced bread with lunch meat fillings.

Sarkozy allegedly took the joke well.

Qualcomm shares jumped as much as 9.2 percent Thursday, a day after the designer of mobile-phone chips estimated next year’s revenue could reach as high as $19 billion.

First out October 24th, Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs has quickly climbed its way to the top as an instant best-seller.