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ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images Despite President Obama ordering all flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of the late Nelson Mandela, South Carolina sheriff Rick Clark refused to comply. Clark said the honor should be reserved to U.S. citizens. The U.S. flag flew high outside a sheriff’s office in South Carolina on Monday in defiance of an order from President ...

Chris Pietsch/AP Pharaoh Brown (pictured) takes things way too far during a University of Oregon snowball fight and gets suspended for the Alamo Bowl as a result. Pharaoh Brown will be left out in the cold when Oregon plays in the Alamo Bowl. The Ducks’ starting tight end was suspended for the bowl game for his role in a wild, ...

Showing an almost shocking lack of sensitivity for gender stereotyping, Microsoft Research has developed a smart bra that prevents women from emotional and stress eating. Microsoft posits that by reducing emotional and stress eating, the bra wearer’s overall health can be improved. The jury is still out on whether stress eating is actually that big of a deal health-wise, mind ...

While you might fondly call the hell-raising inhabitants of online gaming haunts like DotA, Counter-Strike, and Xbox Live terrorists, the NSA and CIA both felt that certain online gaming communities are home to the real thing. So, they did what any good security agency would do, and started spying on bored gamers who are forever killing 10 rats and crafting epic ...

MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS Garth Brooks will begin touring again next year after a more than 10-year hiatus. ‘It sure feels good to get to throw your hat back in the ring,’ he said. American country singer Garth Brooks, the top-selling recording artist of the last 20 years, on Monday said he would return to touring after more than a decade off ...

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer. A few patients with one type of leukemia were given this one-time, experimental therapy several years ago and some remain cancer-free today. Now, at ...

Dan Watson/AP The theft allegedly occurred when the wrecked Porshe Carrera GT Paul Walker died in was being brought to the impound lot. Their stunt backfired, and now two men have been charged with stealing a roof panel off the wrecked Porsche that Paul Walker was riding in when he died, prosecutors said Monday. The Los Angeles County District Attorney ...

Craig Warga/Bloomberg Owners of single-family homes, condos and co-ops are eligible for a $ 300 property tax break, but 250,000 households in New York City have failed to sign up for it. New York City homeowners had better catch up on their paperwork — or they’ll risk losing $ 75 million in tax breaks, a new report warned Monday. A ...

nbcmiami.com One person has been found dead and another injured as authorities search for two other Cuban migrants reported missing off Key Biscayne near Miami. One person has died, another was injured and two more are missing after a suspected group of Cuban migrants ran into trouble near Miami while trying to flee the Communist island aboard homemade rafts. A ...

Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News Rex Ryan is trying to make sure his guys are fresh as they cling onto any playoff hopes they have left. With three weeks left amid a group of middling AFC wild-card contenders, the Jets still face a complex, longshot scenario just to make the postseason. Sheldon Richardson, however, is keeping it straight-forward. “If we ...