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Oscar Fuller has been sentenced to one year in prison for punching a woman during a dispute over a New York City parking space. Fuller received the maximum punishment for the misdemeanor assault, which ended up causing Lana Rosas serious brain damage.

The United States Coast Guard has suspended a search for missing millionaire, Guma Aguiar, after his boat mysteriously washed ashore in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday without anyone inside.

The attorney for James Whitey Bulger, the reputed Boston gangster who went on the lam for 16 years and was captured in California last year, wants to delay Bulger's upcoming trial for a year, enraging prosecutors.

Hope is quickly fading for about 90 individuals still missing after a boat bound for Australia capsized in heavy seas south of Indonesia near Christmas Island.

Kristin Harriger of Abilene, TX was in for the shock of her life after she opened up her monthly electric bill only to discover it cost a staggering $1.3 million.

The students who bullied bus monitor Karen Klein have reportedly received death threats from viewers of the bullying video, which went viral this week. According to CBS News, the seventh grade boys in the video, Making The Bus Monitor Cry, and members of their families have all received death threats for bullying Klein, a 68-year-old bus monitor for Athena Middle School in New York near Rochester.

Megan Crafton, An assistant cheerleading coach at an Indianapolis high school, has been arrested for allegedly performing sexual acts on a 17-year-old male student.

A Florida man made headlines for a zombie cannibal attack after allegedly taking a bit out of a man's arm while high on drugs, according to reports, drawing comparison to the Rudy Eugene incident in Miami in May.

Facecrook is a new site developed by the Bergen County Sheriff's Office to help it catch criminals through an online database.

Dozens of men, women and children from Ethiopia died in the cold waters of Lake Malawi on Monday night. They were on an overcrowded boat with 60 passengers onboard. All are feared dead, and 47 bodies have been found so far.

The Samsung Galaxy S3's U.S. launch got heated on Thursday after most carriers reported delays, but across the pond, in the UK, a woman's S3 actually caught on fire.

The Dating Game killer Rodney Alcala, already on death row in California for the murders of four women and a 12-year-old girl, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges in New York, where he's a suspect in the killings of two women during the 1970s.

Sweden heightened security at three nuclear power plants Thursday after explosives -- without triggering devices -- were found on a forklift near the country's largest power station, police said.

A hacker group has claimed full responsibility for Twitter's worldwide outage on Thursday, saying they attacked the site because of its support of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), CBS reported.

Iran said a massive cyberattack has been detected on its nuclear facilities and that it believes U.S., Israel and Great Britain are behind it.

Language is much more than just words, or communication. A community's language is inherently tied to its cultural identity, often signifying the culture's heritage and its values. Unfortunately, about half of all of the languages in the world -- more than 3,000 different languages -- are currently on the verge of extinction. Google hopes to stem the tide with its latest effort, called The Endangered Languages Project.

Ann Curry will be released as a Today show co-host, just a few months after speculation increased about her job security, according to reports

The fund-raising effort for bullied bus monitor Karen Huff Klein is now reaching the point the where the lines between altruism and shameless self-promotion may be blurring for the man behind the campaign.

On Wednesday, sniffer dogs helped authorities to discover an explosive substance attached to truck that was entering Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden.

A series of audio, video and written statements to police were released on the Web on Wednesday.

Don't expect fugitives in Bergen County, N.J., to like the county sheriff office's Facecrook site set up to apprehend them. The Facecrook site is the brainchild of Bergen County Sheriff Office Inspector Mickey Bradley, who told the Bergen Record that he believes Facecrook is the first site of its kind in the country. Bradley bought the domain, facecrook.us, for $17 about a year ago.

United States Commerce Secretary John Bryson resigned his post this week so that the agency isn't distracted by his recent hit-and-run incident.

A driver involved in a Southern California freeway brawl that was captured on video and went viral on the internet, said he regrets getting out of his and should have called the police. Jerry Patterson, a mortgage consultant and father of three said he suffered a concussion from the incident when three brutes had attacked him on the freeway, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head.

The U.S. State Department has released a new report on human trafficking around the world and estimates that about 21 million people are directly victimized by the criminal practice.

Twenty Quaker Oats workers in Iowa are suddenly some of the richest people in Cedar Rapids after claiming their $241 million prize after winning Powerball on June 13.

Ever seen an orange lobster? Neither has Fresh Catch owner Bill Sarro. That is, not until a shipment of Maine lobsters arrived at his Massachusetts restaurant with five rare orange lobsters inside.

Summer is for light, cold food like fruit dips, yogurt and picnic sandwiches. Right? Not at state fairs, at least, where treats deep-fried to golden perfection reign supreme for summer fair dining. Making its entrance this year, joining other greasy treats like fried Kool Aid, Oreos, pickles and butter, is deep-fried cereal.

A young father, who said he heard his daughter being molested, and then pummeled her attacker to death, will not face any charges, prosecutors in Shiner, Texas confirmed.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest for violating the terms of his bail after entering the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he is seeking political asylum to avoid possible extradition to Sweden. But he may really be trying to escape the long arm of the United States, not the Swedish government.