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Star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach and his inner circle plotted to destroy Trust Company of the West by forming a competing firm while they were still employed by TCW, a TCW attorney said in closing arguments in a trial over alleged theft of trade secrets.

A little over 15 years ago on Sept. 7, 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot after attending a Mike Tyson boxing match. On Sept. 13, 1996, he died in the hospital from internal bleeding.

A report released Tuesday by the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) showed that seizures of cocaine and amphetamine-type stimulants such as ecstasy and meth, have increased dramatically, with 592 kilograms confiscated in 2008-09 compared with 179.5 kilograms just six years prior to the federal findings.

Fans of Italian designer Missoni flocked to Target stores on Tuesday and burdened the retailer's Web site in order to get their hands on some of the unique items.

A Ron Paul 2012 supporter was arrested for drunk driving on National Geographic's new show Frontier Force.

With the Target Web site down, eager Missoni for Target would-be shoppers have taken to Twitter to solve the Missoni mystery.

Miss Universe fourth place finisher Shamcey Supsup of the Philippines thinks winner Leila Lopes of Angola deserves the crown despite her own outstanding performance in the question and answer segment.

The collection sold out of stores within minutes and crashed the Target website

It seems a shot of insulin does more than just keep diabetes's sufferers at bay, a new study has found that a daily dosage of insulin nasal spray can slow down the development of Alzheimer's disease.

A police officer allegedly fatally shot a 14-year-old boy involved in a fight at a school bus stop, the teen's mother said in federal court.

The boy was recently removed from his parents for suspicion of abuse

San Francisco arts officials are embracing what they say is a digital-age solution to the decades-old problem of graffiti: An iPhone application that allows virtual tagging instead of the real thing.

Texas' fire fighters appear to be winning the battle to contain one of the largest fires since Texas started keeping records for disasters. Local schools opened and all 5,000 resident of Austin who were displaced should be able to see their property on Wednesday

Residents of Stallion Springs, Calif., residents were forced to evacuate on Monday as string of lightning-caused wildfires in the area, Capt. Joshua Valverde of the Gilroy Fire Department said.

Animal Planking is picturing animals that are lying down or resting and is similar to planking or the lying down game. It refers to mimicking a wooden plank.

A Florida woman has been charged with battery after she attacked an elderly man in a wheelchair, claiming to be a vampire, police said.

Astronomers have discovered 50 new exoplanets, including a possible habitable planet in what is considered as a significant event that could lead to the discovery of other small rocky habitable planets around stars similar to our Sun.

Manny Ramirez, the 2004 World Series MVP, was arrested on Monday in his South Florida home on charges of domestic violence. The retired Dominican-American professional baseball outfielder was charged with battery.

Al Gore is renewing his campaign to convince sceptics of the link between climate change and extreme weather events by means of a global multimedia event.

Mississippi voters will have the chance to define the term person to include all human beings from the moment of fertilization after the state Supreme Court validated a referendum.

On Monday, millions of people across the world watched in admiration as Miss Angola, Leila Lopes, was crowned the winner of the 2011 Miss Universe pageant.

Casey Anthony’s defense team now thinks that it’s unfair for her to pay $500,000 in prosecution and investigation costs.

Some people with depression symptoms may not tell their family doctor about it -- often out of worry they will be placed on an antidepressant, a new study suggests.

Scientists have discovered a new species of ancient predatory fish that lived 375 million years ago in the ancient North American waterways during the Devonian Period.

Starting on Wednesday, The Climate Reality Project will broadcast a new 24-hour global multimedia presentation on the link between global warming and extreme weather events.

Judges in Sao Paulo, Brazil will pick the winner of the 2011 Miss Universe Pageant Monday night, and there's a good chance that the winner will be Western-looking. Even if that contestant is from Asia or Latin America.

A book containing the details of a series of 1964 interviews that former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave to JFK aide Arthur M. Schlesinger is being released on Wednesday.

KARK meteorologist Brett Cummins has resigned his post at the station after being found asleep next to a dead naked man wearing a dog collar.

Those who journeyed to Lower Manhattan Sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) no doubt saw something that gave them cause for hope, as the nation continues its long process of healing and restoration: New York's skyline is starting to become whole again.