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A new poll released on Friday shows that Pennsylvania voters favor renaming Penn State's football, Beaver Stadium, after Joe Paterno, the longtime coach who died in January.

Holly Lopez, a special education teacher in Texas is being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with two underage students. Why do teachers keep having sex with their students?

Eight years after the disappearance of Miguel Morin, his mother looks forward to reuniting with her son.

The Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded program that searches for potentially dangerous asteroids, received a $4.1 million funding boost.

After years of waiting, the day has finally come for fans of the “Diablo” series. The third installment of the fantasy RPG video game will be released on May 15 for PC and Mac computers. But there was no mention of a console debut, leaving players wondering when the acclaimed action adventure game would make its way to Xbox and PlayStation devices.

Scientists are better able to study cells thanks to an inkjet printer modified to print cells

Indiana father Shelly Miller attacked his daughter's assistant middle school basketball coach after the coach made her run laps at practice.

Ben & Jerry's, the famous ice cream company, has rebranded their apple pie flavored ice cream to Apple-y Ever After.

What spooky classic won't Tim Burton desecrate? The once great director is dragging his favorite actor, Johnny Depp, along as they lay waste to iconic '60 supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, starring Jonathan Frid as the original lady-killer vampire Barnabas Collins of Collinwood. Check out the five best classic Barnabas scenes from YouTube before comparing Frid's taken on the character to Depp's.

The federal government gave Oregon, Washington and Idaho permission to kill California sea lions that eat threatened and endangered salmon in the Columbia River Thursday.

Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student charged with spying on his college roommate Tyler Clementi who was having a sexual encounter with another man and later committed suicide, has been found guilty of hate crimes, tampering with witnesses, lying to investigators and destroying evidence. He will face a sentencing hearing on May 21, 2012.

The parents of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old shot and killed in Florida Feb. 26, want the FBI to investigate the case.

Controversial entertainer, rapper, and reality television star, Flavor Star, will be opening a brand new fried chicken and soul food restaurant in Las Vegas.

The wolf population in Isle Royal National Park could go extinct in a few years, according to a recent study.

Dharun Ravi Ravi, the Rutgers student charged with spying on his college roommate Tyler Clementi who was having a sexual encounter with another man and later committed suicide, has been found guilty of hate crimes, tampering with witnesses, lying to investigators and destroying evidence.

Rihanna's new tattoo of a slanted cross has conspiracy theorists claiming the Bajan singer is a member of the Illuminati, a secret society bent on world domination. We're not saying the crazy rumors are true, but if Rihanna really is an Illuminati Princess it may help explain her controversial relationship with Chris Brown.

South Carolina mother, Shaquan Duley, began crying as she waited to plead guilty to the murders of her two young sons Friday without making a plea deal with prosecutors.

The DeltaWing is a Nissan-powered race car that will race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, from June 16-17, an endurance race that lasts a full day. The Batmobile-looking racer took its first test drive in the United State before it ships off to France for the marathon race.

Samantha Koenig, the teen barista from Alaska who was allegedly kidnapped, is still missing but authorities arrested a suspect named Israel Keyes, a man who owns a construction company in Anchorage, this week.

Investigators said that a two alarm fire at the historic Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas was intentional after firefighters discovered a man, barely alive, locked in 22nd floor room that was reserved only for employees.

Extreme athlete Fearless Felix Baumgartner is attempting to amaze us all again by freefall jumping from 120,000 feet in the air and hurtling towards earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground.

The new iPad, which hits stores Friday March 16, boasts a ton of features, from HD Retina display to high speed Internet connection. However, although the 4G LTE network provides quick download and upload speeds, Face Time video chat still doesn’t work on the 4G network, reported The Verge.

Authorities say that five people have died after a small plane crashed at an airport in North Carolina, while trying to land.

It might soon be thing of past for people to see the words husband and wife, mentioned on official documents in the UK. With the reformations allowing same-sex marriages, official documents like immigration documents will no longer assume that a married couple is a man and a woman, it was revealed on Thursday night. Also, private companies will be told to change their databases containing the words, and replace it with more neutral terms like spouse and partner. ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada issued a voluntary recall on a Chinese company's children's toys after Guidecraft had received some complaints.

The two-year-old severely battered Baby Falak lost the fight for life and has died 56 days after she was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre, Delhi, India.

Here's a look at how Apple devotees spent their time before the tech giant opened its doors on Friday.

“Mass Effect,” the third person shooter sci-fi space saga, was supposed to launch a competitive first-person spin off game, reported Kotaku. The game was to be called “Mass Effect Team Assault,” but was scrapped as a separate project and incorporated into “Mass Effect 3.”

Resident Evil, the original zombie-shooter phenomenon, is preparing for a new release in the upcoming holiday season. And Capcom says “Resident Evil 6” is expected to be the biggest game the 16-year-old franchise has launched to date.