IBT Staff Reporter

Saturday morning, hundreds gathered at Saint Sebastian's Roman Catholic Church in Queens to honor three firefighters who were killed in what is known as the Father's Day Fire.

The poor trades, the bad contracts, the ticket price hikes, the season collapses--everyone knows it can be hard to be a New York Mets fans. ESPN quantified it in the recently released 2011 Ultimate Team Standings.

Leaders from both sides of the immigration debate traded barbs over a controversial bill that would allow immigration judges to have the authority to determine if the illegal immigrant parents of children who, having been born in the United States, are American citizens should be ordered removed or deported from the U.S.

Japan's Sega Corp joined the rapidly growing club of video game companies whose computer systems have been hacked by cyber criminals, the company said on Friday.

According to a new study 25 percent of high school students drink soda daily which is an alarming number that could lead to increase in obesity rate and other related diseases. Seventeen percent of Americans age 2 to 19 are overweight, according to the CDC.

The S&P 500's 200-day moving average is the line in the sand as the bulls and the bears fight over the U.S. stock market's direction. It will face one of its stiffest tests next week with Greece's debt crisis appearing to reach a climax.

Boeing Co says it feels no pressure to rush a decision on whether to re-engine or redesign its best-selling 737 narrow-body, despite impressive orders for an upgraded version of the competing plane -- the Airbus A320neo.

Golf teammates President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner enjoyed some cold drinks after several hours of golf on Saturday, after defeating the team of Vice President Joe Biden and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Apple's iPad 2 challenger Samsung's thinner and lighter Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now available with retailers in theU.S.

Apple Inc, Intel Corp and Ericsson are vying, along with Google Inc, to buy patents from bankrupt telecom maker Nortel Networks Corp in a sale slated for later this month, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, on Saturday easily won the presidential straw poll for the Republican Leadership Conference 2011 as the congressman pursues a bid to gain the Republican nomination for President in the 2012 race.

Look no further than our own Bay Area fire station to find the world's oldest and longest burning light bulb. The 60 watt bulb has been recorded into the Guinness World Records by staying lit for 110 years. It still remains burning within the fire station's room. Since its installation in 1901, the light bulb dubbed The Centennial Bulb has been operating day and night running on 4 watts at the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department Station number 6 in Livermore, California.

President Barack Obama and John Boehner took to the golf links just outside of Washington D.C. on Saturday as the rancorous political back and forth took a back seat.

Angie's List Inc, a website that compiles consumer reviews on everything from plumbers to pediatricians, has picked Bank of America Corp to steer its initial public offering planned for August, a person briefed on the matter said on Saturday.

Silicon Valley opened more tech job positions in May, which helped lower the unemployment rate in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) reported Friday.

United Airlines' recent major computer systems failure for approximately five hours on Friday night caused major delays and cancelled flights throughout its system.

Just pages into his book, Damon Vickers gets going at warp speed, declaring that the United States is not a going concern.

US researchers have created a brain implant that assisted laboratory rats to remember behavior that they failed to.

Vancouver general manager Mike Gillis told reporters there were points where it may have reflected a different era in hockey, pointing a finger at the referees in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Vancouver general manager Mike Gillis told reporters there were points where it may have reflected a different era in hockey, pointing a finger at the referees in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Japanese computer games publisher Sega has launched an investigation after hackers broke into its customer database, the BBC reported on Saturday, in the latest in a series of online corporate security breaches.

Ron Johnson, Apple's senior vice president of retail, will have a limited role is his new job as chief executive of J.C. Penney Co Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was unleashed across the U.S. on Friday as the company's latest entry in the tablet market. Those who snagged this lightest tablet to date can probably testify to whether it was worth it or not, but here are some reviews that suggest how and why Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the best among the Android tablets, and yet lags behind Apple's iOS-based iPad.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc is expected to buy Royal Bank of Canada's U.S. retail bank operations, a source briefed on the situation said on Saturday.

An antipsychotic drug Risperdal and the generic Risperidone have been recalled after a strange odor had been reported by some patients taking the medication.

President Barack Obama, in a message just ahead of Father's Day, revealed that he recently got a second job, being an assistant basketball coach on his young daughter's basketball team.

The latest string of corporate hacks now adds video game giant Sega on the victims list. As of today, no hackers have taken responsibility. Emerging hacker group LulzSec posted on its Twitter page, that they will defend Sega and declared war against the unnamed hackers responsible. Interestingly, the LulzSec group, who was responsible for the latest strings of corporate hacks including the PlayStation Network, has claimed no ownership in Sega's breach.

Private creditors should contribute to a new Greek bailout starting immediately, the head of the Bavarian wing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives told magazine Der Spiegel.

Workers at a Target Corp discount store in New York voted to reject union representation in what would have been the first unionized Target store in the country, while union officials vowed to press for another election.