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The Winklevoss brothers' legal battle with Facebook over the social network's messy creation made them rich.

The New York City Anti Violence Project and LGBT Center announced via social media yesterday that a rally and Community Safety Night will be held next week in response to the recent ash of anti-gay violence across the city that lead to Saturday night's attack and murder of Marc Carson in Greenwich Village.

Police investigate the scene of a fatality which took place during a stunt demonstration at a Jeep show in the parking lot of Oliver Square shopping centre in Edmonton on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

While many all over the country watched the season finale of "Scandal" from their homes, locally, fans gathered together at 7101 2nd Time Around in Homewood for Vernard Alexander's "Scandal Party" for what they called the most anticipated season finale since "Who Shot J.R.?" in 1980.

Facebook's "Like" feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.

It is no secret Mr. Dellinger's amazing work speaks volumes and is in demand on local, national and international arenas.

It was supposed to be the IPO of the decade: a soaring success that would finally shake Silicon Valley out of its doldrums and pave the streets with gold.

Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.

By Monisha Martins - Maple Ridge News Published: May 17, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: May 17, 2013 1:14 PM Ridge Meadows RCMP raided the property on 117th Avenue near Holly Street around noon after obtaining a warrant to investigate allegations of drug trafficking.

It was just a typical day of cleaning pools for John Norris, 18. That was until he noticed smoke coming from a home on 10th Street.

Seeking maximum political gain from the string of controversies swirling around the White House, Republicans are on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who accepted donations from the union that represents Internal Revenue Service employees.

The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn't plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous.

The you-couldn't-make-this-up nature of Thursday's events has thrust the once quiet town of Clark into the media spotlight again, as the community came to grips with the arrest of alleged killer Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, aka Internet celeb "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker." After a national search, McGillvary, 24, was arrested in Philadelphia ... (more)

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Police on Thursday announced an arrest in the death of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found on a Brooklyn beach earlier this year.

On Facebook and Twitter , Shriver shared a photo of herself with daughter Christina, with the note: "The festivities begin.

An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself.

At the one-year anniversary of its initial public offering, Facebook Inc. investors find themselves struggling with the question of whether the glass is half-empty, or half-full. debut was one of the hottest and largest initial public offerings of the young century.

A mother and her teenage daughter are looking for a new home in Cumberland after their rental house went up in flames while they were out of town.

Google isn't done trying to take on the behemoth social networks. That was the message from Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundorta at the Google I/O conference this week as he announced a new look for the company's Google Plus social network.