Online news service Ongo, which launched last year as a paid "aggregator" for various newspapers, said Tuesday it would close down by the end of the month.
PALMVIEW, Texas (Reuters) - Nine people, all believed to be illegal immigrants, were killed in a late-night accident in southern Texas, authorities said on Wednesday. The crowded van was carrying 19 people when it rolled over on Tuesday night on U.S. Highway 83, which runs parallel to the Rio Grande River that forms the U.S.-Mexico border, said Chris Barrera, the police chief in Palmview, Texas.
JACKSONVILLE/SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A special prosecutor in Florida charged neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman with second-degree murder on Wednesday in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, a move protesters had demanded for weeks in a racially charged case that has riveted the United States. Zimmerman, who had been in hiding, was under arrest at Florida's Seminole County jail after turning himself in, officials said
DAVIS, California (Reuters) - University of California officials and campus police showed poor judgment and used excessive force in the pepper-spraying of peacefully protesting students allied with the Occupy Wall Street movement last fall, an investigative panel found on Wednesday. A scathing, 190-page report on the UC Davis confrontation, which was captured on video and widely replayed on television and the Internet, was the work of a task force headed by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso. ..
While Facebook's initial public offering Friday had all of Wall Street abuzz, its 900 million users had other things on their minds. They were busy sharing with the world their thoughts about the presidential election, Haitian Flag Day and the weekend.
Apparently, California Gov. Jerry Brown forgot to rent "The Social Network."
Need another confirmation that the world of programming is as nerdy as you suspected?
Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said.
Murder charges have been filed against a sergeant accused of killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, the Army said Friday.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia college student fighting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection mouthed "Let's do this" when told that her hands and remaining foot would have to be amputated, her father said on Friday. Andy Copeland, Aimee Copeland's father, wrote in a Facebook posting that a doctor told the family on Thursday that "the hands were endangering Aimee's progress." He said he told the doctors, "Do whatever it takes to give us the best chance to save Aimee's life." Copeland then took his daughter's hands and, holding them up to her face, said, "Aimee, these hands are not healthy
Aimee Copeland, who lost her leg to a flesh-eating infection after a zip-line injury, learned that she will also lose her right foot and hands.
