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NEW YORK (AP) -- News Corp. says that Hulu, its jointly owned free online video site, will start charging fees for access at some point in the future.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft has a new weapon in its Internet search duel with Google -- full access to Twitter's communications hotbed.

NEW YORK (AP) -- There's been a break in the fierce, decades-old Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.

APOPKA, Fla. (NBC) -- An 18-year-old Florida man shot while he was having sex with a teenage girl is talking about his ordeal.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Target is throwing itself into a heated price war on books expected to be top sellers.

APOPKA, Fla. (NBC) -- A Florida teenager was shot four times after he was caught having sex with the shooter's daughter, police said.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (NBC) -- Residents living along Northwest First Court in Boynton Beach, Florida are used to problems with their mail service.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (NBC) -- The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate is 40 years his junior.

TROY, Mich. (NBC) -- A Michigan man has turned his 16-year-old daughter in to police after he discovered she was growing marijuana in her bedroom closet.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Rihanna said she feels ashamed that she returned to Chris Brown after he attacked her in April, leaving her bruised and bloody.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) -- Residents of the Cape Cod town of Barnstable have voted to change the community's form of government by a single vote.

GASTONIA, N.C. (NBC) -- Neighbors thought it was a Halloween prank. But yes, it really was a deer swimming laps in a pool.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Michael Jackson costume is one of the top sellers for Halloween this year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge has ordered Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend and two doctors to stand trial on charges of illegally funneling prescription drugs to the former Playboy model.

VERO BEACH, Fla. (NBC) -- At eight months pregnant, Cristina Rangel is about to welcome a new member to her family. But what happened Monday night nearly sent her into early labor.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A Sacramento County jury has awarded $16.5 million to the family of a 28-year-old woman who died after participating in a radio station's water-drinking contest.

PORTLAND (AP) -- People will have to prove they're 21 to buy a bottle of a century-old British lemonade in Maine because the drink contains alcohol.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Wayne Newton is telling fans "Danke schoen" after 50 years in Las Vegas and hinting that his latest run could be his last.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (NBC) -- If you read between the lines of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto of a bill by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, it spells out a common, but crude, phrase.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (NBC) -- Rocker Lenny Kravitz had what may be the ultimate Spinal Tap moment on Saturday.

ORONO, Minn. (NBC) -- Sweeping views, elegant spaces and countless amenities are all part one of the most expensive homes in Minnesota, and it's about to go on the auction block.

SUN CITY WEST, Ariz. (NBC) -- Two residents of Arizona's Sun City West retirement community are facing charges of resisting arrest and trespassing after they refused to leave a recreation club tennis court.

MINNEAPOLIS (NBC) -- Like many of the 144 passengers aboard Northwest flight 188 last Wednesday, Robyn Blilie had no idea there was anything wrong until the next day.

FORT WORTH, TX (NBC) -- A female Boy Scout volunteer in Fort Worth. Texas was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old scout in the troop she helped oversee.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House scored a stroke for gender equality in sports on Sunday.

BOSTON (AP) -- The winner of the reality TV show "Big Brother 9" is headed to federal court to face drug charges.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Longtime character actor Lou Jacobi has died at the age of 95.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Tammy McLeod solved an advanced puzzle in 7 minutes, 41 seconds to defeat former world and U.S. champion Thomas Snyder and win the third Philadelphia Inquirer Sudoku National Championship on Saturday.

BOSTON (AP) -- Thousands of funeral directors, mortuary science students and others in the industry plan to gather in Boston to learn ways to survive the recession and become more profitable.

MCKINNEY, Tex. (NBC) -- Halloween is big business for retailers. It's the second busiest shopping season of the year, second only to Christmas.