Less than two weeks after giving birth to son Chad Michael, and just short of her 18th birthday, Jenni Lake succumbed to stage three astrocytoma. Lake, who became pregnant halfway through her cancer treatments, stopped chemo and radiation to protect her son, refusing the abortion that would have saved her life. This is her legacy.
Avenger Controller has decided to dump Ocean Marketing, the company's PR firm, after an inappropriate dispute with a customer went viral after it was posted in on Penny Arcade.
Investors didn’t get rich owning generalized technology stocks but they fared well with some of the traditional winners with good management and proven technology.
A new program called Spire allows users to add Siri to any jailbroken iOS 5 device, from an iPhone 4 to a first generation iPad. But before you start downloading Spire, brought to Apple lovers by iOS cracker Chpwn, take care: without a proxy, this 'legal' hack is only the beginning for Siri on iPhone 4, and could endanger your information's security.
The New York Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Nilda Macri, who has been in court for the last four years, trying to collect line-of-duty death benefits after her husband, NYPD Officer and September 11th first responder Frank Macri, died from lung cancer that he developed after working at Ground Zero for two months.
Paul Christoforo, a rep for Ocean Marketing, got into an inappropriate dispute with a customer, which was posted in full on Penny Arcade. The PR disaster has since gone viral, and Christoforo has asked Penny Arcade to Please make it stop.
A rare bird known as the Asian hooded crane most prevalent in Southeast Asia took a wrong turn according to conservation experts and made its way into the U.S., specifically Tennessee.
The Humane Society is facing heat for euthanizing the cat of a reformed heroin addict after it had been brought in for medical treatment and was put down because the owner could not pay upfront.
After a round of SEC expansion, the conference unveiled its full 2012 schedule on Wednesday, including new participants Texas A&M and Missouri.
Google+, Google’s challenge to Facebook, is adding 625,000 daily users and already may have as many as 62 million signed up, unofficial statistician Paul Allen claimed.
In a scene straight out of a movie, former New England Patriots defensive tackle Houston Antwine and wife Evelyn tragically died within 24 hours of each other after long bouts with heart failure and lung cancer, respectively.
The Christmas Day house fire that killed Madonna Badger's three daughters - Lily, Grace and Sarah -- and her parents - Lomer and Pauline Johnson -- was caused by discarded hot embers removed from the fireplace, authorities report.
Cheetah the Chimp, who co-starred in the 1930s Tarzan movies alongside Johnny Weissmuller, died Saturday at the age of 80.
Mark Zuckerberg and girlfriend Priscilla Chan are vacationing in Vietnam. The couple might actually get some peace and quiet since Facebook is banned in the communist country.
Hackers who have shut down websites by overwhelming them with Web traffic could use the same approach to shut down the computers that control train switching systems, a security expert said at a hacking conference in Berlin.
Penny Arcades' Mike Krahulik shared an interesting transcript of conversation between a reader named Dave and Ocean Marketing's Paul Christoforo that is now viral on the web. Undoubtedly, we haven't heard of such a bad incident of PR failure in a decade.
A ballot initiative requiring Los Angeles porn actors to wear condoms has qualified for the June election, organizers said on Tuesday.
The SEC is employing a host of new techniques in order to catch Wall Street crooks.
Detroit police are mulling the prospects of dealing with a potential serial killer, after three of four women found dead in car trunks around the same area had placed ads for escort services on the same Web site.
From stories of Scott Olsen at Occupy Oakland and the riots in Tahrir Square, to a hilarious cache of old photos and LOTR's Eye of Sauron in a glass door's reflection, reddit has broken some of the biggest stories of the year, and given us plenty of hilarity in between. Here, see the top scoring links of 2011 as voted by reddit users.
Michael Plumadore, 39, has confessed to the brutal murder of 9-year-old Fort Wayne, Indiana girl Aliahna Lemmon, missing since Friday. Plumadore, who has given no motive for the killing, said he beat Lemmon with a brick before dismembering her body, keeping her hands, feet and head in his freezer.
The father of Madonna Badger, who lost her three children and parents in the Connecticut Christmas Fire, died trying to save his granddaughter, according to ABC's Good Morning America.
Ben Breedlove, an Austin, Texas, teenager who suffered a life-threatening heart disease for years that he chronicled on YouTube, died on Christmas Day, but not before recording his final videos.
After spending four days in hospital following heart surgery, Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, was released Tuesday morning.
Recent reports have indicated that the iPhone 5 could hit markets in the summer of 2012, but Boy Genius Report wrote on Tuesday that the new phone won't be available until the fall.
The Christmas Day fire that killed Madonna Badger's three children and her parents was fireplace-related, a tragic accident likely caused by the fireplace ashes of the family's Yule log. Badger has been spared many of the details of the horrific fire, including the fact that her father died trying to save one of her daughters.
Michael Plumadore, the babysitter charged with the murder of Aliahna Lemmon, who disappeared from an Indiana trailer park last week, admitted to beating the nine-year-old girl to death with a brick, dismembering her with a hacksaw, stuffing her limbs into freezer bags and hiding parts at his trailer and at a nearby business according to reports.
Companies working to develop a pure hydrocodone drugs have abuse experts and drug control advocates warning that the product will be highly addictive. Drugs like Zohydro, which opponents are already calling the next OxyContin, will be 10 times as strong as Vicodin, and the first time pure hydrocodone will be sold legally in the U.S.
While after Christmas sales typically bring joy to the hearts of frugal consumers nationwide, some customers at the Mall of America in Minnesota were engulfed with rage in the post-holiday shopping extravaganza, leading to a massive fight on Monday all caught on video.
Mitch Gilbert, from Colorado, hit the jackpot this month before boarding a flight in Las Vegas: he found $10,000 in two unmarked Caesar's Palace envelopes. Gilbert returned the money to its owner, Ignacio Marquez, in El Paso, Texas, because he wanted to show his children that it was the right thing to do.
