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Amazon scored against Apple by launching its Kindle Cloud Reader, which is a Web-based app that helps it steer clear of restrictions Apple has placed in regard to its Appstore subscription rules.

Law graduates from two of the country's biggest schools filed class action suits against their alma maters alleging that the schools were inflating employment and salary statistics to lure students.

LG Electronics and Sony said on Thursday that they have resolved patent disputes between the two firms spanning smartphones, TVs and Blu-ray technology, with LG adding that they have signed a cross-licensing deal.

Texas prison officials on Wednesday executed convicted killer Martin Robles for the shooting deaths of two young men nearly nine years ago who belonged to a rival street gang in Corpus Christi.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian sued retailer Old Navy on Wednesday to force the clothing store chain to quit using a look-alike model in advertisements the celebrity claims hijack her fame.

The bankruptcy sale of Crystal Cathedral, the glass-walled Orange County church known for its "Hour of Power" broadcasts, has touched off a bidding war between a Roman Catholic diocese and a local university.

Two men charged in the Opening Day beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and were ordered held on $500,000 bail.

Nine-year old boy from Philadelphia, Ryan White, who became the victim of a hit-and-run incident last week in downtown San Francisco, is recovering and is out of danger, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.

While the riots continue to rage in England, the author recounts his own riot experience and how it compares to this one.

Polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs, 55, has 78 wives and nearly one third of them were 16 or younger when they married him. Jeffs, the leader of a radical polygamist sect of Mormonism known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS) was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison, with no chance of parole until he becomes 100 years old.

"The riots in Britain have not been caused by any sort of political or racial tension. That may exist, but that is not at the heart of these riots. These riots are the result of lawless thugs who have seen an opportunity." -- Victoria Honeyman

Ugandan police fired teargas on Wednesday to disperse thousands of supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye who had gathered in the town of Masaka in southwest Uganda where he renewed calls for protests against high food and fuel prices.

He confessed to being part of a gang that broke into and looted a Debenhams store on Monday night.

Serena Williams may be reinvigorated for the U.S. Open

With markets reeling, and the economic expansion far from self-sustaining, the pressure will be on Congress? new 'super committee' to cut the budget deficit substantially -- by more than the $1.5 trillion called for ? to calm investors.

Kansas became on Tuesday the second U.S. state to return a large federal grant meant to help it create a prototype health insurance exchange as part of the Obama administration's healthcare overhaul.

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls he claimed as "spiritual" brides. He married the girls when they were 12 and 14 years old.

Oleg Cassini's widow, Marianne Nestor-Cassini, has slapped Conde Nast with a $10 million lawsuit alleging defamation over a September 2010 Vanity Fair piece that examined the intra-familial legal battle over the late designer's estate.

A Nigerian-American man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stowing away on a commercial airline flight from New York to Los Angeles in an incident that revealed an apparent lapse in airport security.

A longtime facilities manager for the E! cable TV network is being held in an Alhambra, California, jail on $2.7 million bail, accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife last week, while injuring her sister and himself in the attack.

One half of the late 1980s hip-hop band Kid 'n Play was arrested on Tuesday for skipping out on a court hearing in connection with a 2010 drunk driving conviction, court officials.