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For the first time, Google Inc. is celebrating American inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 164th birthday on February 11 with a new still moving doodle logo on its classic homepage featuring some of his best inventions.

Five new Republican faces for a possible run for the U.S. presidency in 2012 are in this year's straw poll of thousands of conservative activists who have made their annual trek to Washington this week.

A Federal court in California has denied Sony's motion to pull the personal information of Twitter and YouTube users who might have downloaded code that allows PlayStations to run with alternative operating systems.

Strengthening cybersecurity is the goal of legislation being introduced in Congress after reports of hack attacks on computer networks at Nasdaq OMX Group and at oil and gas companies.

Rutgers senior Jonathan Mitchell hits a three-pointer and free throw with less than a second remaining Wednesday to lift the Scarlet Knights over No. 10 Villanova.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded New Jersey bon d rating by one notch to “AA-“ from “AA” (both with stable outlooks).

Mark Sanchez has an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. But the quarterback isn't in any legal trouble because of it.

While 1994 was dubbed as the worst year for fixed income investors, we believe that the next twelve months could be even worse

New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur will miss time following with a non-operable knee sprain the team said Tuesday.

Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma announced Tuesday that the team did not expect forward Evgeni Malkin to play again this season following a knee injury leaving the Penguins in a bind as to how to salvage their season.

According to an ESPN.com report, the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets have had preliminary discussions about a Carmelo Anthony trade.

Amazon.com unveiled its list of the Top 20 Romantic Cities in America.

U.S. government-owned rail operator Amtrak said plans to construct a railway tunnel that will link New York City and New Jersey at a cost of $13.5-billion.

Acerbic British music judge and entrepreneur Simon Cowell said on Monday that the winner of the first U.S. version of the television singing competition, The X Factor, will receive a $5 million record deal.

Reflecting a growing national trend in the U.S., Hispanics have become the largest minority in the state of New Jersey, supplanting blacks, according to Census Bureau data.

U.S. employment rose far less than expected in January, partly the result of severe snow storms that slammed large parts of the nation, but the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since April 2009.

A Planned Parenthood clinic manager has been fired for behavior captured on an undercover video made by an anti-abortion group, a Planned Parenthood spokesman said on Wednesday.

Gold rose over 1 percent in choppy trade on Thursday, with a sudden jump by over $20 per ounce within minutes as large buy orders were apparently triggered in the future markets. This comes unexpected to precious metals experts, as the gold price was supposed to be kept low by the usual large Wall Street players during todays speech by Bernanke, and was set to rally on Friday, when unexpectedly bad labor market numbers will come in and drive gold prices higher.

Major U.S. retailers shrugged off the snowiest January in six years to post sales that blew past analyst expectations, easing concerns that consumers were all spent out after the holidays.

A huge winter storm pummelled the United States on Wednesday, bringing parts of the Midwest to a standstill, delivering a wintry blow to the Northeast, and disrupting businesses, flights and other transport.

Sixty-nine per cent of investors say Facebook is overvalued after Goldman Sachs invested $450 million in a deal that valued the company at $50 billion, according to the quarterly poll of 1,000 Bloomberg customers who are investors, traders or analysts.