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Keasha Draft, the wife of retired NFL linebacker Chris Draft, has died of lung cancer. She passed away on Dec. 27, 2011.

Happy New Year! The year 2012 is just hours away in the United States.

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group published hundreds of thousands of email addresses belonging to subscribers of private intelligence-analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., along with thousands of customer credit-card numbers.

Online computer hardware retailer Newegg has come up with a rather lucrative deal for video game enthusiasts

A 60-year-old Barnstable County resident has contracted rabies and been admitted to hospital in critical condition. The case is the first such in the state of Massachusetts for over 70 years, according to a Department of Public Health (DPH) release

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, India-born U.S. citizen whose work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will be knighted in UK, media reports said.

Former Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd made increasingly aggressive romantic advances over several years toward an independent contractor who later accused him of sexual harassment, according to claims in a letter from her lawyer obtained by Reuters.

Ben Breedlove, the YouTube star who died at the young age of 18, has received massive love - both online and offline - after his death. Breedlove died from a heart attack induced by his heart disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

This year there were several legal cases that tugged on the heart strings of America and those outside the nation. There was public outcry when Casey Anthony was acquitted of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Don't forget the Jerry Sandusky-Penn State scandal and disgraced public figures such as Rod Blagojevich and Dominque Strauss-Kahn.

Security information concerning Times Square and your favorite bar on New Year's Eve.

NetColalition, a trade association that includes Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and PayPal, is planning a coordinated blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The blackout would be the most extreme move against the controversial bill yet, but NetColalition says the protest is just the tip of the iceberg.

A new California law will force retailers and manufacturers to disclose from 2012 how they guard against slavery and human trafficking throughout their supply chains, ratcheting up scrutiny over some of the largest U.S. corporations.

Sorry, Apple fans: Numerous inside sources report that the iPad 3 will not have a January launch. To tide you over until its eventual release, however, here's everything we know (and everything that's been disproved) about the tablet computer's specs, upgrades, release date and price range from the Apple rumor grapevine.

A dozen anti-Wall Street protesters who had taken over a foreclosed home in Oakland were arrested on Thursday, protest organizers said.

Michael Plumadore, the babysitter and neighbor who confessed to killing 9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon, has officially been charged with her murder,

Paul Christoforo apparently had more to say to N-Control, his former client who he embarrassed through a PR debacle that has gone viral.

Five...Four...Three...Two...One... It's almost New Year's 2012 and time to watch that glitzy ball drop to signal the beginning of the new year. Here is all the information you need to see the Times Square Ball Drop online or to watch live in person on New Year's Eve. As an added bonus, we've added some tips for those of you brave enough to be part of the most magical night of the year in New York City.

Fox Latin America is in trouble after asking users in a poll whether Jewish people are responsible for the death of Jesus Christ.

According the recently released letter, drafted by lawyer Gloria Allred, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO made a series of increasingly aggressive advances toward contractor Jodie Fisher from 2007 to 2009, kissing and fondling her and attempting to pressure her into an affair. Hurd's lawyer dismissed the letter (read here) as full of inaccuracies, but rumors of a settlement are fueling the fire.

A suspect in murder of Elizabeth Faria, a breast cancer survivor stabbed to death in her Troy, Mo. home, has been released after police failed to gather enough evidence to hold him. Though his name has not been released, neighbors say Faria's husband was the suspect arrested, and that he was seen hitting himself in a squad car.

Ben Breedlove's funeral service on Thursday at the Gateway Church was streamed online at his family's request. Such a move seemed fitting for the 18-year-old, who has become an Internet sensation.

When 12-year-old boy named Charlie Le Quesne got the shock of his life when the Siri app on a demo iPhone 4S told him to shut the f--k up and called him an ugly t--t when he asked it a question at an Apple store in Conventry, UK. Apple staffers have launched a full investigation, but it's likely pranksters simply reprogrammed the iPhone using Siri's naming system.

While many banks and businesses will be closed, most major retailers will have normal business hours on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. What stores will be open on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day 2012? We take a look at Walmart, Kmart, Target, Best Buy, Toys R Us, Walgreens and many other popular stores.

Fly High Gaby began trending on Twitter on Thursday night in honor of former Penn State student Garbriella Sicard, who died on Wednesday from injuries sustained in a car crash.

The moment the tech world has been waiting for may only be weeks away. Apple's iPad 3 will supposedly be revealed during the Macworld/iWorld Expo in January.

Jena Dolstad, 14, of Anchorage, Alaska, has died after fighting for her life for six days, according to local police reports. The teenage girl was allegedly injected with heroin, at a drug party gone bad.

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Cyclone Thane slammed into the southern Indian coast on Friday, making landfall in in Tamil Nadu state.

The founder and president of New York City's Pace Public Relations is a successful and sober-minded individual, but when it comes to this one thing, she has a definite compulsion. It's the Like button on Facebook -- she just can't stop clicking it.