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A new series centering on the antics of cable news employees has received a green light from HBO.

Nike may be releasing the Marty McFly Air Mags soon.

Officials revised their estimates of the destruction wrought by the fires raging across Texas, tripling the number of homes consumed by a record breaking fire in hard-hit Bastrop County.

Summit Entertainment is suing the owner/operator of twilight.com, claiming the primitive fan merchandise site violates its copyright.

Former New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he exposed himself to a string of women who answered his Craigslist employment ads.

In 1987, Paul temporarily resigned from the Republican Party.

Attorneys in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor were set to begin jury selection on Thursday, but absent from the courthouse was the media circus that hovered around previous Jackson proceedings.

New York City alone could suffer damage as high as $20 billion if it suffered direct effects of an earthquake as large as the Aug. 23 earthquake, Eqecat determined.

Armstrong's family is determined to uncover the truth behind his death

A three-year-long pole-to-pole series survey to collect data on greenhouse gas is coming to an end, said the U.S. scientists.

Among arrested was a Detroit doctor who allegedly billed Medicare for services provided to dead people. Seventy of the defendants were charged this week and other 21 were charged in recent weeks.

Actress Reese Witherspoon was hit by a car on Wednesday morning while she was out on a jog near Los Angeles. She suffered minor injuries, an AP report said.

A nationwide law enforcement crackdown has charged 91 people with participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving $295 million in false billing.

Russell Armstrong, the husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong, was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs when he committed suicide, authorities said on Wednesday.

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A Southern California high school was evacuated on Wednesday after a note was found in the belongings of a U.S. Navy corpsman claiming he had placed explosives there, authorities said.

Ninety-one people in eight cities arrested for Medicare fraud.

Delhi is considered to be in Zone 4 of the Earthquake Hazard Map of India and is therefore designated as being in the High Damage Risk Zone. There hasn't been a significant earthquake in the city's recent history, although it has experienced minor vibrations from quakes elsewhere in the country and in Pakistan.

Dozens of wildfires that have been burning in Texas for the past 10 months are maxing out fire officials' resources, but winds are beginning to blow in favor of firefighters who have managed to contain the largest inferno currently raging in the state. Fire officials on Wednesday said they have managed to get a handle of the fire in Bastrop County, which is about 30 percent contained.

Fire crews made decisive gains on Tuesday against a fierce blaze that destroyed 12 homes after it was ignited by a small-plane crash in Southern California, and evacuation orders were lifted late in the day for hundreds of dwellings.

A third National Guard member has died following the shooting rampage inside an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., authorities said late Tuesday. The death told now stands at five after Tuesday morning's shootings.