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The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has declared Miller dead no less than four times since 2010, and has tried to both cut off his government pension and get a refund of $94,000, money which they claim went to a dead man. The Army veteran has already proven that he's alive three times, and is now petitioning his congressman to intervene.

All eyes are on Kate Middleton and Prince William to have their first child, but the couple has decided to ease into parenthood by adopting a puppy.

Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used.

Mark Berndt, a 61-year-old ex-schoolteacher from Los Angeles, was charged with 23 counts of child molestation after photographs surfaced showing victims with their eyes blindfolded, possibly inside a classroom.

Virginia felt a strong aftershock Monday evening, registering a 3.2 on the Richter scale

The Burmese python is wrecking the Florida Everglades ecosystem and have devastated small mammal populations in the area, but its not the only species that is causing harm to the ecosystem.

UGA cheerleader Anna Watson has become an overnight sensation. Not because of her back flips or her cascading brunette locks but because of her ripped muscles. Anna Watson is not your average girl. She can bench press 155 pounds, she eats 900-calorie mass-gainer shakes and she has four inches of muscle on her biceps. Watson's muscles raised eyebrows after a photo of her flexing began circulating on the Internet.

Mobile retail app Shopkick on Tuesday, announced it's software drove over $100 million worth of in-store purchases last year. According to company chiefs, consumers armed with Shopkick enabled smartphones spent $110 million at participating retailers over the last 12 months, the location based app's first full year of operation.

Facebook is preparing to launch their historic initial public offering as soon as this week, with public sales of stock expected to begin in April. Facebook's IPO will be the largest ever at $10 billion; six times larger than Google's, whose IPO was $1.64 Billion in 2004.

Just hours after the body of the Michigan mom strangled last week in a Detroit alley was found by police, a family friend known only as Jim began knocking on doors, offering a $10,000 reward for information on the case and pressing local residents to tell him what they saw. As police float the idea of an accomplice in Bashara's murder, and her husband Bob comes under further scrutiny, sources claim the mystery man has turned himself in to avoid suspicion.

At least one family member of an Afghan-Canadian family found guilty of honor killing three siblings and a fourth relative will be appealing the conviction and sentence of life in prison, the family's lawyer said on Monday.

Although 16 people are still missing, Italian authorities called off the search for bodies inside the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship around 3:45 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

Investigators now assert that the 20-month-old's father, Justin DiPietro, his girlfriend and his sister have withheld information about the missing Maine toddler from police. And after DiPietro's dubious polygraph test and the discovery of a significant amount of blood in the house, some on Ayla Reynolds' mother's side of the family are inclined to agree.

A small earthquake hit a Chicago suburb Monday night, rattling residents but causing no real damage

The First Lady reportedly visited a luxury lingerie boutique in New York and also made a handsome purchase.

The illicit drug growers and their crops of marijuana and opium poppies are suffering the worst drought in northern Mexico since the government began keeping records 70 years ago.

Pinkberry co-founder Young Lee on Monday pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from a confrontation with a panhandler that police say ended with Lee hitting the man with a tire iron.

More than 21 percent of those surveyed have accessed adult content online on their smartphones.

The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report warned on Monday.

QuasiDisk, a file management app in the iTunes store, has a sneaky hidden feature, one that might get it pulled from the App Store: Tethering.

Valentine's Day 2012 is coming up, so prepare by learning five true aphrodisiacs that really work.

Kendall Stewardson, an Iowa mother, gave birth to her second child on Thursday, a 13-pound baby named Asher who could hold the record for the largest baby born naturally in Iowa.

Police suspect that arson may be to blame in the deadly Florida crashes that killed 10 and injured 18.

The Tim Tebow phenomenon doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon -- at least not with the latest story that he was in Las Vegas at the same time as the Adult Entertainment Expo.

The first crash report providing details of the horrific crash in Florida, which caused a pileup on Interstate 75 early Sunday, has been released, according to The Gainesville Sun.

Just one week after the Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. mother of two was found strangled to death in her car in a Detroit alley, husband Bob Bashara has been labeled the only person of interest, and rumors abound that he failed a lie detector test last week. Although his family is standing behind him, Jane Bashara's relatives are not as convinced, saying they believe the killing was not random and that they can only hope her husband wasn't involved.

Ayla Reynolds' blood has turned up in the home of father Justin DiPietro, authorities said. This is latest twist in the case of the Maine toddler missing from her Waterville home since Dec. 17.

More than 400,000 spectators lined the streets of Chinatown on Sunday.

An Afghan immigrant couple and their son in Canada have been found guilty of the 2009 murder of three teenage girls and another woman, and handed out prison terms of at least 25 years.