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Two murdered teenagers. Two Wisconsin cold cases. And now, many years later, two breaks that finally may lead to charges. Investigators in Racine and Fond du Lac counties announced separately over the weekend that they have new developments in cold cases from the 1990s — the killings of 14-year-old Amber Gail Creek and 18-year-old Berit Beck — and news conferences …

After 10 years, beleaguered ex-Food Network star Paula Deen and her team have suddenly shuttered Uncle Bubba’s Seafood & Oyster House in Savannah, Georgia. TMZ reports that employees showed up to work this morning only to find the restaurant closed and its appliances being removed. On the Uncle Bubba’s Facebook page the company simply writes: “Thank you for 10 great …

A company called StoreDot has released this YouTube video showing how their battery can be recharged in just 30 seconds. It was developed out of Alzheimer’s research at Tel Aviv University.

The latest news on Lindsay Lohan is that the “Mean Girls” star has admitted to drinking again. On the most recent episode of “Lindsay,” the actress was confronted about her relapse by her life coach AJ Johnson after her mom Dina confessed she had wine with her daughter and found a bottle in her apartment.

In 1961, Bruce Farrer, then a Saskatchewan high school teacher at the beginning of his career, came up with an interesting idea for an assignment: He asked each of his students to write a 10-page letter to their future selves, to be opened only when they were adults. “I was trying to think of some assignment that would be special,” …

Video of a Santa Monica High School student being subdued by a wrestling coach, supposedly after selling marijuana in his classroom, is becoming a worldwide web sensation, but has triggered a backlash from parents, teachers, students and alumni. School officials said Mark Black was put on leave pending an investigation.

In a bizarre murder case, a nine-month-old toddler, accused of planning a murder has been bailed after appearing in the court in Pakistan. The nine-month-old baby Muhammad Mosa Khan was also accused of threatening police and interfering with state affairs in the neighbor country.

As of Monday, the FTC has charged the website Jerk.com with taking data from Facebook and using it to create millions of disparaging profiles that it would then charge $30 to remove or edit. The trick was that paying money didn’t actually give access to anything, and Jerk appears to have been scamming its “customers.”

Comedian John Pinette died Saturday in a Pittsburgh hotel room, according to a report published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pinette, 50, had suffered from liver and heart disease, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. Authorities did not suspect foul play, the Post-Gazette reported.

Peaches Geldof’s final Tweet was a photograph of herself as a child in the arms of her mother Paula Yates. With the simple message “me and my mum” it now has an added poignancy given today’s events. 24 hours later, she was found dead at her Kent home.

In a bizarre new interview with GQ, the impossibly-proportioned Valeria Lukyanova opens up about motherhood, revealing why she never wants to have children. The 28-year-old Ukrainian model has become an Internet sensation due to her obsession to transform herself into a “human Barbie” through plastic surgery, dramatic makeup and enormous colored contact lenses.