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Last Friday, 15-year-old Sierra LaMar disappeared from the driveway of her home and was never seen again. Her cell phone was discovered on the side of the road.

The best remedy for heartbreak is joining the U.S. Marine Corps, according to Perry's latest music video.

Apple has reportedly placed orders for a 4.6-inch screen to be featured in the company's next-generation smartphone, presumably called the iPhone 5. If accurate, this news would mean that Apple is breaking from tradition yet again, and giving consumers a bigger iPhone experience.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 - Hewlett Packard Co will merge its printer and PC businesses, combining two of its largest divisions as Chief Executive Meg Whitman tries to jumpstart growth at the technology company.

On Friday March 16, high school student Sierra LaMar left for school and was never seen again. Police dogs picked up her scent as far as the driveway of her home. A few days later her cell phone was discovered by the side of the road.

A 22-year-old police officer who posed as a high school student over the past eight months made a series of arrests in Exeter, California, according to the Los Angeles Times. The undercover operation is not unlike Hollywood's recently released film, 21 Jump Street, which opened in theaters across the nation last week.

Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth are reportedly expecting their first child together.

On Tuesday, three major online dating services announced that they will start screening their sites for sex offenders and other criminals. The online dating services have teamed with up the state attorney general to make their sites safer for customers. The effort to screen was brought on after numerous customers of the online dating sites were sexually assaulted.

Moody's downgraded more than $2.5 billion of Detroit's municipal debt as the city continues to struggle through a prolonged fiscal crisis and the state debates the possible installation of a financial advisory panel or an emergency manager to administer the finances of Michigan's largest city.

Noise pollution has a cascading effect on ecosystems, according to new research.

This is Debarge's third drug-related arrest.

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer company, said it will merge its PC with its printers unit, amid other internal changes ordered by new CEO Meg Whitman.

New Mexico residents are up in arms over a casting notice for an upcoming tourism ad that calls for Caucasian or light-skinned Hispanics only.

El DeBarge, the singer who is famously known for the song Rhythm of the Night, was arrested for drug possession with the intent to sell in Los Angeles on Monday, and has since been released on $30,000 bail.

Venice, said to be one of the most romantic destinations, could sink by up to three inches by 2032, a new report reveals.

Shares of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) rose 2 percent in pre-market trading after the No. 1 database developer reported third-quarter results that beat estimates.They fell later.

The top after-market NASDAQ losers Tuesday were: EMCORE Corp, Rex Energy Corp, Pacific Biosciences of California, CoBiz Financial, West Marine, Bank Mutual Corp, Silicon Motion Technology, United Community Banks, Cumulus Media and Builders FirstSource.

The Obama administration is using a 2006 Supreme Court opinion to attempt to convince the conservative thinker to back the healthcare law.

Odd Future Mixtape Volume 2, (released March 20) features a number of Odd Future members and affiliated rappers, marks the official return of 17-year old rapper Earl Sweatshirt to the Odd Future crew. The song featuring Earl, titled Oldie, leaked several days earlier, but Odd Future hyped the track with an impromptu music video as well as a radio interview with Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97 FM, who compared the young rapper to NaS at 17.

Handset maker HTC Corp's Beats Electronics is close to buying the digital music subscription service MOG for an undisclosed sum, according to a person close to the talks.

Technology giant Oracle Corp said quarterly sales of new software rose 7 percent from a year earlier to $2.4 billion, at the high end of its own forecast.