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A 22-year-old police officer who posed as a high school student over the past eight months made a series of arrests in Exeter, California, according to the Los Angeles Times. The undercover operation is not unlike Hollywood's recently released film, 21 Jump Street, which opened in theaters across the nation last week.

Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth are reportedly expecting their first child together.

On Tuesday, three major online dating services announced that they will start screening their sites for sex offenders and other criminals. The online dating services have teamed with up the state attorney general to make their sites safer for customers. The effort to screen was brought on after numerous customers of the online dating sites were sexually assaulted.

Noise pollution has a cascading effect on ecosystems, according to new research.

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer company, said it will merge its PC with its printers unit, amid other internal changes ordered by new CEO Meg Whitman.

New Mexico residents are up in arms over a casting notice for an upcoming tourism ad that calls for Caucasian or light-skinned Hispanics only.

Venice, said to be one of the most romantic destinations, could sink by up to three inches by 2032, a new report reveals.

The top after-market NASDAQ losers Tuesday were: EMCORE Corp, Rex Energy Corp, Pacific Biosciences of California, CoBiz Financial, West Marine, Bank Mutual Corp, Silicon Motion Technology, United Community Banks, Cumulus Media and Builders FirstSource.

The Obama administration is using a 2006 Supreme Court opinion to attempt to convince the conservative thinker to back the healthcare law.

Odd Future Mixtape Volume 2, (released March 20) features a number of Odd Future members and affiliated rappers, marks the official return of 17-year old rapper Earl Sweatshirt to the Odd Future crew. The song featuring Earl, titled Oldie, leaked several days earlier, but Odd Future hyped the track with an impromptu music video as well as a radio interview with Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97 FM, who compared the young rapper to NaS at 17.

Americans travelling to the Olympics could be exposed to measles and should be vaccinated before they go, the CDC warned.

Despite the many conflicting reports about Jason Russell's naked breakdown in the middle of a busy San Diego intersection, the Kony 2012 director was not arrested last Thursday. Instead, he was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold. Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey recorded a video message in response to Russell's breakdown, saying that the 33-year-old director felt intense pressure.

According to a new report by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a serious safety violation has occurred at the Second Avenue subway. Construction at the Second Avenue subway has over three times the permitted amount of toxic dust levels. Testing done Nov. 9 at East 69th and Second Avenue found the high levels of silica, hazardous dust particles that are a result of the drilling construction. The latest information was released last week by Assemblyman Micah Kellner...

Facebook will pay a fee of just 1.1 percent to underwriters of its initial public offering, a source with knowledge of the company's plans said on Monday.

Apple (AAPL) shares soared on Monday, breaching the 600 mark a few times before finally settling on 601, after the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company decided to share some of its $100 billion in cash with its investors. Apple announced it would reward shareholders by launching a quarterly dividend and a stock buyback program that will pay out about $45 billion over three years, set to go into effect later this year.

Electroshock is one of the most effective - and controversial - treatments for depression, but until recently, scientists have been at a loss to explain just how it works. A new study suggests that ECT may reduce depression symptoms by putting a lid on overactive communications between areas in the brain involved in thinking and areas associated with mood control.

Apple (AAPL) is feeling generous. After a record-breaking quarter announced in January and a record-breaking launch weekend for the new iPad, Tim Cook decided to share some of Apple's $100 billion in cash on Monday to fulfill a deep-seated desire of investors, announcing a quarterly dividend and a three-year shares buyback program to go in effect later this year.

Things seem to be going well for the couple.

Do you enjoy horror movies? So do I.

Gone will be the days when the mainstream tablet market would be just confined to Android and iOS credibility or on the less thriving RIM's Playbooks.

Collapsing natural gas prices have yielded an unexpected boon for North Dakota's shale oil bonanza, easing a shortage of fracking crews that had tempered the biggest U.S. oil boom in a generation.