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After a last-minute push by Louisville, including soliciting the help of a United States senator, West Virginia is finally set to join the Big 12, according to a report.

With the two-year anniversary of his last tournament win fast approaching, Tiger Woods is preparing for next month's Australian Open amid growing doubts over whether he can ever regain his former dominance.

Lindsay Lohan's estranged father Michael Lohan was back in police custody Thursday, hours after he had been released from a jail in Tampa on domestic violence charges.

Never before has a presidential candidate polled as well as Herman Cain with as few political credentials, Nate Silver writes on The New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog.

Terry Jones, the Florida pastor known for publicly burning the Quran, is running for president as an Independent, on a platform of spending cutbacks, deportation of illegal immigrants and tax cuts for businesses.

Tony Sparano, the head football coach of the Miami Dolphins rumored for weeks to be in danger of being fired, has put his Miami home up for sale.

The latest picture taking craze to take the world by storm could be Tebowing in honor of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

When Bernie and Ruth Madoff attempted suicide on Christmas Eve of 2008, they did so in the couple's penthouse duplex atop 133 East 64th Street. When Madoff went to jail, they had to forfeit their many homes, which each gained an aura of infamy. Some have done better than others in the luxury sales market.

Hurricane Rina's projected path has forced numerous flight cancellations and diverted nearly a dozen cruise ships.

Casey Anthony, the Florida mom acquitted in July of killing her child, has been voted the No. 2 creepiest celebrity, closely following shock rocker Marilyn Manson, according to a poll released on Thursday.

Tampa-based startup Unthink launched Tuesday in a flurry of green trim and black-and-white revolution-themed photography. The newest social network claims $2.5 million in funding from DouglasBay Capital and has its sights set on taking down Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and other social networks it says are exploiting their users by selling their information to advertisers.

The 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) ended ahead of schedule due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina.

Unthink, which launched a beta version of its web site yesterday, bills itself as everything Facebook is not: it won't make deals with ad companies, it won't invade your privacy, and it will let you dictate terms of use. The site is swamped with users responding to Unthink's message of social media revolution, but will it garner enough followers to really challenge Facebook?

Oh, this is a new one in conference realignment. Boise State, which has garnered interest from the Big East to join its conference in football, is talking to the Big West to join its conference in other sports.

With Hispanic voters upset at Republican presidential candidates over immigration, President Barack Obama played to a Latino audience on a trip to the West this week to shore up support from a group that is key to his re-election hopes.

A former Chicago local, Harold Wayne Lovell, who was presumed to be a John Wayne Gacy victim after he disappeared 34 years ago, was reunited with his family Wednesday. Tim Lovell, Wayne's brother, and Theresa Hasselberg, Wayne's younger sister, contacted the Cook County sheriff's department two weeks ago to ask about their brother, Harold Wayne Lovell (who goes by Wayne), who they had not seen since he left their family's Chicago home in May 1977 for Aurora, Illinois in search of con...

Businessman Herman Cain is statistically tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among Republican voters in Iowa and South Carolina.

Occupy Oakland protestors will attempt to retake Ogawa Plaza again tonight, following the news that an Iraq war veteran was severely injured during a violent clash between police and protestors last night. As Mayor Quan is threatened with recall and mass arrests spread through occupied zones in the U.S., will the Oakland riots' violence spread?

Well, now the Big 12 is just playing realignment games with the Big East.

The relatively instability of the Big East is having an impact on football recruiting for some of its coaches, but hasn't had much of an impact in basketball.

After a three year delay, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial voyage from Narita airport in Tokyo to Hong Kong.