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Authorities were forced to use a stun gun on an upstate New York woman who was believed to have been beating her 3-year-old son, according to the New York Daily News. Bath salts may have been behind the woman?s episodic meltdown.

Manufacturing in the New York region hardly expanded in June as orders and sales cooled, the New York Federal Reserve's Empire State Manufacturing Survey showed Friday.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Nokia Corp, Navistar International, Sohu.com, Facebook, JPMorgan Chase, Alcoa and GlaxoSmithKline are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

The online Apple Store page for the Retina display-equipped MacBook Pro shows that the shipping dates for both the 2.3 and 2.6GHz models have been changed from 2-to-3 weeks to 3-to-4 weeks. However, there's apparently no shipping delay for the non-Retina MacBook Pros.

Crude oil futures advanced Friday as sentiment was buoyed on expectations that the major central banks around the world would act to strengthen the global economy.

Much to the consternation of would-be buyers, Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) MacBook Pro with Retina display is totally sold out in the city of New York, just three days after the new laptop was announced at the company's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) 2012.

Ponzi schemes leave their victims in financial ruin and their perpetrators, if caught, with lengthy prison terms such as the 110-year sentence given today to Ponzi schemer and former Texas billionaire Allen Stanford. What is a Ponzi scheme?

Here are five players flying under the radar heading into training camp.

British Prime Minister David Cameron had strong words for Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner on Thursday regarding the Falkland Islands.

The black plague may be a rare disease in the U.S associated with low-income regions, but in the last three decades it has started to surface in more affluent areas, a new study has found.

Apple was expected to update nearly every computer for the 2012 WWDC, including every iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. But while fans were generally pleased by what was announced, the iMac got no love from Apple. According to MacRumors, however, new iMacs may be hitting shelves sooner rather than later.

Tourism officials hope a record-breaking stunt can help boost Niagara Falls' economy, but historians fear the city is once again tainting Mother Nature with unnecessary spectacles.

TripAdvisor just released its 2012 TripIndex of the most affordable -- and most expensive -- popular tourist cities around the globe.

June 14 marks the celebration of Flag Day in the United States. The annual holiday commemorates the adoption of the flag of the Unites States in 1777. The Second Continental Congress adoped the American continental army after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775.

Lynn Shelton?s latest film stars Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass.

The Mets will appeal R.A. Dickey's one-hit performance against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Charges of doping have long followed seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Now the cyclist is facing those charges again, this time from a quasi-governmental agency, the United States Anti-Doping Agency, and there are a number of reasons why the new claims are different than the others Armstrong has faced over the last decade.

The drama between R&B stars Rihanna and Chris Brown never seems to cease. The two were recently seen at a Miami Heat game with Rihanna?s family, and now the songstress is pushing her ex-beau to break off his current relationship with model Karrueche Tran.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama headed to New York City this evening for a celebrity fundraiser at Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's West Village townhouse.

The manhunt is on for Timothy V. Jorden, a former Army Special Forces surgeon who is believed to be responsible the ECMC shooting that took place in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 13. Jorden, 49, is wanted for allegedly shooting and killing 33-year-old Jackie Wisniewski, a receptionist and one-time lover of the wanted assailant.

Rarely do the words sports car and luggage go together in a sentence without the connecting phrase does not have enough room for. Well no more, because the 2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid is a genuine sports car, and it can in fact easily deal with some bags at the airport. Moreover, it succeeds in actually combining a sports car with hybrid technology without totally neutering the driving experience. Read our review to learn more.