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Elizabeth Spiers, the editor of the New York Observer, is leaving the newspaper at the end of August after expanding its digital offerings in the past 18 months, diversifying its revenue stream in a challenging advertising environment.

A Megabus crashed Thursday afternoon between Chicago and St. Louis. The driver crashed the bus after a tire popped and he lost control, state police said. It's unknown how many passengers were hurt but local hospitals reported treating at least 14 people.

A massive sinkhole has opened up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, halting traffic and nearly swallowing a nearby parked car. The 20-foot wide sinkhole opened up on 79th street in Brooklyn, between 4h and 5th Avenues. The sinkhole was reportedly 15 feet deep.

A Brooklyn couple, already reeling from the loss of their stillborn baby, had their grief compounded after the New York City Medical Examiner's office gave them the wrong infant.

A roundup of quarterfinal action in the men's singles event at the 2012 Olympics at Wimbledon.

Rush Limbaugh recently accused The Dark Knight Rises of naming its villain Bane to draw attention to Mitt Romney?s ties to Bain Capital.

The investment at Rikers Island prison is a so-called "social-impact bond", the first of its kind for an American city, and means any potential return for Goldman hinges on the success of a program that will educate, train and counsel inmates aged between 16 and 18.

It would not be a bold statement to say that fashion is in the midst of a revolution this year, taking strides in efforts to minimize the abundance of anorexic models, opting instead for figures the industry once would have deemed "too curvy." With models like Robyn Lawley and Kate Upton as what's en vogue on the fashion scene, one may wonder where the boom in popularity of buxom models came from. View the gallery of photos to see some of the most popular curvy and plus-size models brin...

Jared Diamond tore into presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Wednesday's New York Times, writing in an op-ed that the former Massachusetts governor "misrepresented my views" when Romney talked about culture during a speech Sunday in Jerusalem.

Knight Capital Group Inc is being forced to raise money after an erroneous trading position wiped out $440 million of its capital, the firm said on Thursday, causing its shares to shed more than half of their value.

Researchers found that of 101 heart patients with signs of depression, those who exercised for 90 minutes per week and those who started taking Zoloft both improved significantly compared to participants assigned to drug-free placebo pills.

Facebook, the world's largest social media platform, might have more than 83 million fake users, according to company filings published this week.

Since the New York Times first rolled out its paywall in early 2011 -- amid equal parts skepticism and ire -- other papers around the country have followed suit at an impressive rate.

Rafalca, the 15-year-old Dutch warmblood mare co-owned by Anne Romney, U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney's wife, competed Thursday in the Individual Dressage at the 2012 London Olympics.

India's Sahara India Pariwar Ltd. has agreed to buy a controlling stake in New York's Plaza Hotel for $570 million, placing a bet on one of the most robust U.S. hotel markets.

Radar Online dubbed Britain's fashionista, Victoria Beckham, as "Sour Posh" after she revealed during an interview with Glamour magazine that fashion "stole" her smile. It's virtually impossible to find a red carpet picture of Mrs. Beckham smiling, and now she has exposed that the reason despite Glamour describing the former Spice Girl as having a "warm and welcoming personality."

A spokesman for Egyptian President Morsi said a letter supposedly sent to Israeli President Peres was fake and reports of it were "slander."

Rapper and hip hop mogul Jay-Z will be serving as an executive producer for the upcoming basketball videogame "NBA 2K13," the game's developer announced in a press release on Wednesday. What exactly that means remains unclear.

Randy reportedly owes around $500,000 to Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza, the mother of his two children. An attorney said that not only would it be too late for the Jacksons to challenge the will but Randy isn?t even entitled to do so because he wasn?t named a beneficiary.

Is Bar Refaeli dating Shaun White? Rumors that the Israeli model and the Olympic champion snowboarder are a couple are heating up after they were photographer together during the 2012 Games in London.

River Phoenix's death in 1993 at the age of 23 is considered one of the most shocking losses in film history.