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A New York City man convicted of raping his former stepdaughter in an attack she disclosed years later in a college application essay has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said he has been diagnosed with throat cancer but that the ailment is curable and he plans to remain actively involved in the largest U.S. bank’s business. In a memo to the bank’s employees and shareholders on Tuesday, Dimon, 58, said the cancer was caught at an early stage and is …

After five grueling days, the search for a missing St. James girl has come to a tragic end. The St. James Parish Sheriff’s Office found the body of 12-year-old Talaija Dorsey at 10:20 a.m. Sunday morning. Officials found the 12-year-old near a sugar cane field in Vacherie, just miles from her family’s home, where she was taken early Tuesday morning.

The rate of opioid-related deaths has skyrocketed in Ontario, jumping 242 per cent in 20 years, new research shows. The increase has been most pronounced for young adults, researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and St. Michael’s Hospital found. One of every eight deaths for Ontarians aged 25 to 34 was related to opioid use in 2010, up …

Miley Cyrus will remember her late pooch Floyd forever now. The singer held a pretty wild party on Saturday night, on that ended with Cyrus and all her friends (including The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne) being tattooed with the image of her dead dog and the words “With a little help from my fwends.”

At a time when the government is looking to use social media to engage with the public, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and discussed ways in which the social networking platform can be used to connect the government with the people.

Soot found in the lungs of an East Jerusalem youth, whose funeral drew thousands on Friday, means the teenager was still alive and breathing when he was burned, according to the preliminary results of an autopsy. The autopsy, carried out by Israeli doctors in Tel Aviv and attended by a Palestinian forensic expert, revealed that over 90 percent of the …

Seven people were injured, one critically, in a mass shooting in Broad Ripple early Saturday morning. The shooting happened about 2:20 a.m. outside a shoe repair shop in the 700 block of Broad Ripple Avenue, between College and Carrollton avenues. The victims, six men and one woman, ran into an alley between two banks across the street, trying to flee …

If you saw people running around Vancouver on Saturday afternoon, it’s perfectly normal. The B.C. Cancer Foundation hosted the 9th annual Underwear Affair and hundreds were expected to take part in the timed 10km race and 5km walk in their underwear and other creative costumes.

Helen Mirren‘s tip for looking great at 68: Cut your own hair. The “Queen” star confirmed longstanding rumors that she, not a beautician, trims her silver locks in an interview in the August issue of Redbook.

Scarlett Johansson has won $2500 in legal damages against an author in Paris. The Hollywood star claimed that a fictional blonde character in Grégoire Delacourt’s novel, The First Thing We Look At, was her double and represented her in defamatory manner.