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Police in Orange County said on Monday they do not believe that a transient found dead on Monday was the fourth victim of a suspected serial killer operating in the area.

Personal finance guru Suze Orman launched The Approved Card, a prepaid debit card, on Monday. It is a purple plastic debit card with the Master Card logo on it and self-branded with Orman's name.

Mercedes-Benz USA is bringing Facebook to its cars, with a special version of the service that is built-in to a new in-vehicle telematics system that will be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines Ltd has told aviation minister Ajit Singh that it will not be able to maintain normal operations without a temporary bank overdraft, the Financial Express newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Arthur Franklin pleaded guilty in Manhattan criminal court in October to running such an operation that included 15 people in two states. On Monday, he was sentenced to 9 to 18 years

Sydney Spies, a Durango, Colo., High School senior, made headlines over the weekend after news spread that her school yanked her yearbook photo due to her super-sexy attire.

U.S. stocks ended slightly higher on Monday in a light-volume session, as investors stayed cautious ahead of corporate earnings and key auctions for European debt this week.

Here's one way to handle a student-teacher conflict. NYU senior Sara Ackerman, unhappy with a professor who she says forced her to do an ethnography on Occupy Wall Street, has told everyone in her department about her struggle - literally, at three in the morning.

Can natural gas become the United States' cheap, primary energy source of the early 21st century? It’s possible, under the right conditions.

Sami Osmakac, an alleged Islamic extremist, was charged with a plot to attack crowded locations in Tampa, Fla., according to authorities, reported The Associated Press.

Both prosecutors and defense attorneys are in talks for a plea deal for Jose Pimentel, the man accused of planning to pipe bomb attacks on police officers and soldiers.

A candlelight vigil for 19-year Logan Kushner, who drowned after smoking a synthetic drug called K2, will be held tonight at Kapok Park. K2 was banned in Florida last year, but a legal loophole means synthetic marijuana is still sold at drugstores across the state, including the Clearwater, Fla. store where Kushner and a friend bought the drug early Sunday morning.

The only clue to Sherry Arnold's disappearance is a running shoe the Montana school teacher left behind near one of her regular jogging routes.

One man is dead and another had a part of his scalp swiped off by a leopard that wandered into an eastern India city on Saturday. The men were reportedly among five people attacked by the wild leopard that went on a three-hour rampage in the city of Guwahati before authorities were able to tranquilize it.

A man named Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was arrested on drug charges at Reynolds Park in Madison, Wis. Thursday afternoon after neighbors called in about excessive noise and drug use in a local park, according to reports.

In an accident captured on video, a 22-year-old Australian student named Erin Langworthy nearly plunged to her death on Dec. 31 into a river infested with crocodiles after her bungee cord broke while bungee jumping in Zimbabwe.

Papa John's Pizza, amid much Twitter outrage, fired a cashier at one of its New York City locations and apologized via social media to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that used a racial slur to identify her on Friday.

Crispin Scott, a Dartmouth student studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain, has died, the college learned this morning.

Housing Development Finance Corp, India's largest mortgage lender, expects the RBI to cut the cash reserve ratio, rather than interest rates, at its monetary policy review on January 24, Chief Executive Keki Mistry said.

A rare collection of ancient Greek coins, called the Prospero Collection, fetched a record price of $25 million at an auction in New York.

Logan Kusher, a 19-year-old male from Safety Harbor in Florida, drowned after taking synthetic drugs in Kapok Park, police reported.

The $190 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry is about to begin its annual winter extravaganza in Las Vegas, where the latest toys, gadgets, smartphones, video games, TVs, cameras, tablets and laptops will be unveiled - some not to be available until late in 2012.

NASA is questioning whether James Lovell, an Apollo 13 commander, has the right to sell a 70-page checklist that contains his handwritten calculations that were vital in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.

A one-cent copper coin minted in 1793 - the year in which the newly-independent United States of America first began minting its own currency - has fetched a record $1.36 million at a Florida auction.

Sydney Spies, a Durango High School senior, incurred a bit of a snafu when administrators at her school yanked her yearbook photo due to her super-sexy attire.

A serial killer may be responsible for the slayings of three homeless men in Southern California who were each found stabbed multiple times, police said on Thursday.

A German citizen was charged on Wednesday with setting dozens of fires across Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend in a spree an arson investigator said was motivated by a rage against Americans.

Police seized a Mexican motorboat loaded with more than a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles early on Wednesday and arrested 10 people, the latest in a growing number of seizures as smugglers seek to ferry drugs north to market by sea, authorities said.

Ever since Google celebrated the Burning Man festival with a simple doodle on Aug. 30, 1998, the company has had tons of fun with its doodles. This slideshow offers a trip through the history of Google's doodles, from basic to extremely complex.