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Here's a look at the timeline of events in the Amanda Knox, foxy knoxy, murder trial in Perugia, Italy from the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher to the 2011 verdict in the Knox appeal.

Although all of the cameras are pointed at Amanda Knox, focus should remain on justice for the victim, Meredith Kercher, who was brutally murdered in 2007.

Authorities are still investigating the alleged suicide death of embattled Phoenix-based TV pitchman Donald Lapre who was in federal custody at the time for fraud charges having to do with a company called The Greatest Vitamin in the World.

A young boy is in a coma after a producer for Anderson, Cooper's new daytime show, urged the teen to film the crazy stuff you do.

Don Lapre, the TV infomercial host charged with fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering, was found dead of an apparent suicide just days before his $52 million trial.

The Amanda Knox case verdict is expected to be read around 8 p.m. local time in Perugia, Italy (2 p.m. Eastern Standard) a judge said on what could be the final day of a four-year long saga.

Faced with mounting international pressure over the death sentence handed out to Christian pastor Yucef Nadarkhani, Iran has said the charges were not related to apostasy but rape, extortion and threat to national security.

Sotheby's Hong Kong two-day wine sale of the autumn season concluded with a combined total of $12.7 million.

Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed to keep up their fight on Sunday despite the arrests of more than 700 people the previous day for blocking traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge in an unauthorized protest.

The Book of Mormon debuted this year as a Broadway hit that won nine Tonys, and the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination features not one, but two candidates of the Mormon faith.

The single thing that makes cyclists so hated by non-cyclists is disrespect for others: the way in which a highly-visible minority of cyclists consider themselves above the law, and flout not only traffic rules but also the basic tenets of civility.

Michael Lewis says something very odd in his big piece on California and the phenomenon of overconsumption:

An opium-growing recluse wanted in connection with two murders in northern California was shot to death by police officers on Saturday, capping a five-week-long manhunt through dense, rugged woodlands.

Autopsy results show that Jeff Conaway, the star of Taxi and Grease who struggled with addiction before his death in May, died from multiple causes including a major internal infection.

After his first meeting ever with the Mother Monster herself last week, President Obama said Lady Gaga is intimidating during a speech at a LGBT advocacy gala.

California-based Manning Beef is recalling 80,000 pounds of beef products over possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

An Amtrak passenger train and a farm truck collided Friday evening at a northern California rail crossing, and nearly 40 passengers were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, an Amtrak spokeswoman said on Saturday.

The Occupy Wall Street protest is showing no signs of slowing down, as about 700 protesters were arrested on Saturday after taking on a trek to the Brooklyn Bridge that shut down a lane of traffic for several hours.

Around 40 people were injured when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a farm truck, pn Friday evening, at a rail crossing in northern California, a Reuters report quoted Vernae Graham, an Amtrak spokeswoman as saying.

Thousands of people Saturday gathered in Georgia, U.S. for the funeral of Troy Davis, who was executed on Sep. 21 for the 1989 killing of Mark Allen MacPhail, 27, an off-duty Savannah police officer.

For the first time in 80 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking at re-evaluating and re-defining the way that federal law understands the word rape. Critics, like Carol Tracy, who is Executive Director of the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia and whose office has long campaigned for a re-look at the definition of rape, say that the current definition of the crime is too narrow and leaves several incidents of rape uncounted, at least as per federal statistics. T...

As the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York entered its third week Saturday, police arrested more than 700 protesters for closing down the Brooklyn Bridge and a lane of traffic for several hours.

Taking a stand for animal rights over fashion, the tiny, tony municipality of West Hollywood is set to impose a ban on the sale of fur clothing within its boundaries.

Taking a stand for animal rights over fashion, the tiny, tony municipality of West Hollywood is poised to become the first U.S. city to ban the sale of fur clothing within its boundaries.

The judge in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor issued a sharply worded gag order for attorneys on Friday and ordered one of them to return for a possible contempt hearing after he appeared on a TV show telling details about the case.

Troy Anthony Davis, the Georgia man who was arrested in 1989 for the murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, had claimed his innocence for two decades. But despite his continuous claims, Davis couldn't convince the authorities and was executed on Sept. 21.

The Tevatron at Fermilab was shut down on Friday after 26 years of operation, as what once was the world's most powerful particle accelerator falls victim to the dwindling budget of the U.S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.).

A new teen sexting law took effect Saturday in Florida, still making it illegal for teenagers to send sexually explicit photos, but first-time offenders will get lighter penalties.

An opium-growing recluse wanted in connection with two murders exchanged gunfire with police in northern California but slipped back away into dense woods where he has hidden out for five weeks, authorities said on Friday.