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Alexis Welch might not be the most well-known of the Basketball Wives, but this little lady has scored herself a $100-million man. That's right. Last week, Welch got engaged to New York Knicks superstar Amar'e Stoudemire.

Apple has confirmed that new models and new designs of the Mac Pro are in the works and might be released in 2013.

Those e-mails weren?t accidents, nor were the accompanying solicitations for funds and support, a new report by ProPublica found. The process is growing and there?s little place to hide.

Crude oil futures hovered above $83 a barrel Wednesday ahead of a weekly report on US oil supplies as well as Thursday's OPEC ministerial meeting in Vienna.

Arizona Democrat Ron Barber was declared the winner in the nationally highlighted special election to fill Gabrielle Giffords' former seat in the House of Representatives, news reports said.

The Giants could use a veteran running back to shore up their inexperienced unit.

Apple was expected to update nearly every laptop and desktop computer in its lineup for the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, including the iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. In the end, the iMac and Mac Pro were almost completely forgotten about. Is Apple neglecting its pro customers?

Stanford University is testing out the new program Congestion and Parking Relief Incentives, or Capri, to decrease traffic congestion by paying drivers to commute at off-peak hours.

The debate over minimum wages -- does raising the minimum wage put more money in workers' pockets or just leave more of them jobless? -- is heating up at the state and federal level.

One of the fastest growing segments of Kevin Hartz's business is bacon. Hartz isn't a chef or farmer. Rather, he's founder and CEO of Eventbrite, a ticketing website that offers an independent platform for event organizers of all types.

Rihanna may say that her collaboration with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown earlier this year was strictly professional, but sources close to the singer may think otherwise. According to the New York Post, the two former lovers have been ?seeing a lot of each other in private,? sources said to the newspaper. Over the weekend Brown joined the Barbados-born singer and her family at a Miami Heat game, furthering rumors of a reunion.

Burger King's latest addition to its menu combines two American classics - ice cream and bacon. The world's second biggest hamburger chain is gearing up for the summer by offering a bacon sundae - vanilla soft serve with fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles and a piece of bacon.

After a seven-year hiatus, Fiona Apple is set to release another mouthful of an album: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. The long-awaited release, debuting June 19, has already earned critical raves.

Though rents went down, grocery bills shrank and companies trimmed their workforce after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Tokyo edged past Angolan capital Luanda to become the world?s most expensive city for expatriates in Mercer?s 2012 survey.

After several hours of searching, authorities were unable to find any sign that a yacht exploded in the Atlantic Ocean off of Sandy Hook, N.J., which led investigators to believe a distress call was a hoax.

Muslims, who form a 4 percent minority in Myanmar as a whole, are concentrated in Rakhine and are part of a community called the Rohingya.

Selena Gomez showed some leg at the New York City launch of her perfume, but was her look too risqué for a 19-year-old?

Leaders of the world's 12-member crude oil cartel gather this week in Vienna to discuss and perhaps set a production ceiling for the group in what is expected to rubber stamp the current state of affairs. It is also expected to feature a fierce tug-of-war between Saudi Arabia, the cartel's dominant producer, and Iran.

Green Acres presented an entirely new paradign for sitcoms ? it created a world (Hooterville) that seemed to exist outside of the laws of logic and reality.

Thursday will see a showdown over the near-term future of AOL (NYSE: AOL), the No. 7 website, which in its heyday was American Online, the biggest email provider, as well as a company big enough to swallow Time Warner.

The U.S. expressed fears Monday that the Syrian government may be organizing another massacre in the town of Haffa in coastal Latakia province, where UN military observers have been denied access.