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Lady Gaga's parents are about try their luck by opening up a brand new Italian restaurant in Manhattan called Joanne Trattoria.

Leslie Carter, 25, passed away on Tuesday.

Shares of AOL, the seventh most-visited Website, leaped as much as 16.5 percent Wednesday after reporting improved financial results bolstered by a rise in display advertising.

Greg Brooks, a shipwreck hunter from Sub Sea Research, in Gorham, Maine, and his crew are targeting a $3 billion platinum treasure on a sunken World War II merchant ship destroyed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod.

30 Rock star Alec Baldwin showed off his dramatic weight loss at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles, shedding 30 pounds in four months through his new diet. But how did he do it?

Big box retailer Costco has added Super Bowl XLVI tickets to its wide variety of items sold in its stores.

Melanie Iglesias, a New York-native and winner of Maxim's Hometown Hottie in 2010, has tempted fans with a Valentine 's Day contest. On Wednesday the brunette beauty tweeted to her 83,000-plus followers Is anyone still without a Valentine? Let me know!

The Avengers are going to the Super Bowl.

A police officer shot in the head outside a public-housing complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday is expected to make a full recovery, police officials said Wednesday.

Football fans traveling to Lucas Oil Stadium for the Super Bowl can expect above freezing temperatures and a slight chance of rain.

The Portland, Ore. down-tempo art-pop quartet Blouse plays 285 Kent in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 31, 2012. It was the band’s third New York City-area show and the last U.S. stop before an extensive European tour. Blouse released a full-length record on boutique New York label Captured Tracks on Nov. 1 2011. The band has also released music with famed Seattle label Sub-Pop.

The New York Knicks buried the Detroit Pistons 113-86 at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night.

The French aviation company, Dassault, defeated Eurofighter in India's $10.4 billion bid. Negotiations are now in the works for Dassault to sell 126 Rafale combat aircrafts to the Indian Air Force.

DC Entertainment announced Wednesday that it will publish a prequel series of comic-books that precede the Watchmen stories written by Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, and now compiled as a graphic novel.

Wealthy Republican businessman Marc Cenedella, criticized for lascivious blog posts he published about sex and drugs, announced he was not going to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for her New York Senate seat.

Two of the men who have accused Bernie Fine of sexually molesting them when they were ball boys is now accusing his wife, Laurie, of having sexual relationships with basketball team players. Bernie Fine, a former Syracuse University assistant men's basketball coach, was fired late last year, after being accused of molesting three men in the 1980s and 1990s.

DC Comics is going back into the past by launching a prequel series to their popular Watchmen series.

ScarJo has reportedly been dating the handsome art director for six months

A captivating letter from a former slave to his old master has resurfaced online. The letter is a response from ex-slave, Jourdon Anderson, after his former owner, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tenn., asked Jourdon to return to his farm to work after more than 30 years of servitude. The must-read letter's expression is cheeky, but clear.

The Fall 2012 show packages, complete with decks of show cards picturing agencies' hottest models, have been released to the fashion world for New York fashion Week. Think of the show cards as baseball cards, only with edgier designs and more beautiful showpieces.

The Dog Strikes Back features an overweight pup and the return of Darth Vader.