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America’s favorite found-footage horror franchise is back! (Sorry Blair Witch, you done’ got left behind.) Picking up where Paranormal Activity 2 left off (the third installment was a prequel – and a disappointing one at that), PA4 is directed by PA3 vets Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman and bears the tagline “All of the activity has led to this.” After a good bit of teasing, Paramount Pictures finally released the first official trailer today, and it looks to be a teen-centric take on the usual Paranormal Activity formula – which has not been a bad thing 66% of the time so far! PLUS, find out about Paramount’s special Facebook promotion in which you can help your hometown get an early screening of the flick!

Google had themselves a science fair and the grand prize winned is 17-year-old Brittany Wenger from Lakewood Ranch, Florida. When I was 17 I was sleeping through math class, Brittany on the other (and much smarter) hand, was creating a breast cancer diagnosis app! Read on to see Brittany explain her work and to find out how her neural network will potentially save lives and provide detection that will be non-invasive.

Bars and restaurants in Minnesota will soon be offering dispensers in the ladies’ rooms that provide $3 pregnancy tests in an effort to prevent who think they may be pregnant from consuming alcohol.

Patricia Legarreta and Jamie Rohrs were in attendance at the midnight showing of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado early Friday morning when a gunman opened fire, killing 12. The couple caught the attention of the media after it was revealed they were at the movie with their 4-month-old son and Legarreta’s 4-year-old daughter. Patricia suffered a minor bullet wound, but both children and Jamie were unharmed – Jamie due in part to the fact that he bolted from the theater, leaving Patricia to tend to the safety of the two children. Keep reading to watch an interview with the couple on Piers Morgan Tonight in which an emotional Rohrs recounts what was going through his mind as he ran from the theater. Plus, it’s revealed he proposed to Legarreta at the hospital where she was being treated for her bullet wound, and she accepted.

In the wake of the massacre in Aurora, Colorado an ill-timed tweet from an NRA (National Rifle Association) account this morning has received a tidal wave of criticism. See the tweet in question from American Rifleman and read what the NRA’s response was to the incident.

DIRECTV and Viacom have reached a settlement which means my kid can watch Bubble Guppies again! Read on for the deets.

“I’m not a hero — anybody would have done it. I did it out of normal instincts.” That was the statement from 52-year-old MTA bus driver Steve St. Bernard after he made a probable life-saving catch when a 7-year-old autistic girl named Keyla fell from her 3rd-story window. Find out how Keyla ended up in the dangerous situation and see the amazing footage that directly contradicts St. Bernards’ statement. This man is indeed a hero.

17 years ago farmer Winston Howes lost his wife Janet to sudden heart failure. As a tribute, he and his son had 6,000 oak saplings planted in the outline of a heart. Only recently thanks to a hot-air balloon enthusiast was his breathtaking tribute discovered by the outside world. See the awe-inspiring images of one man’s lasting dedication to the woman he will always love.

The showdown continues between media giants Viacom and DirecTV as the the two sides continue to be unable to reach a new contract agreement, resulting in all of Viacom’s networks (including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon) to be unavailable to DirecTV subscribers since Tuesday night at midnight. In reaction to their subscribers outrage over not being able to see certain programs, DirecTV posted a list of “Other ways to watch” Viacom programming that included links to the programs that offered full episodes streaming on network sites. In an apparent reaction to those links, Viacom has since removed recent full-episode streaming content for some of its shows, including Teen Mom, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Keep reading for all the latest in the showdown that appears to be getting more and more serious by the hour!

That didn’t last long! Only 29 weeks after their first issue at the very end of December, 2011, tabloid publication Reality Weekly is shutting down their printing presses. Keep reading for the full announcement, including the magazine’s plans to return later this summer as an all-digital app for iPad and Kindle Fire.

Forget the fight to legalize gay marriage, the LGBT movement won the real battle this weekend when Facebook unveiled same sex marriage timeline icons for gay married couples! One of the first to implement the dual grooms icon was none other than Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who married his longtime partner, Sean Eldridge, on Saturday.

Rudy Eugene, nicknamed The Miami Zombie, made national headlines when he stripped naked and ate the face off of homeless man Ronald Poppo. The act was so heinous that people were sent scurrying for an explanation as to how it could have happened. The police in Miami and many others singled out the drug bath salts for sending Eugene over the edge. The medical examiner’s official findings reveal that the assumption was false. In fact he was only abusing one drug at the time of the crime. Read on for the details including which illegal drug was found in Eugene’s system.

This isn’t the wisest parenting decision, especially for lawyers. Two married attorneys planted drugs in the car of their PTA president at their son’s middle school. Because that’s the way mature professionals handle difficult situations.

An unidentified 23-year-old father from Shiner, Texas will not be charged with any crimes after he beat a man to death with his fists who was molesting his 5-year-old daughter on his ranch. Read on for the chilling details of the story and how this father showed immediate remorse for having killed the man even after witnessing the horrible acts the ranch hand had perpetrated against his defenseless child.

The bully awareness movement that’s sweeping the U.S. is largely a good thing. It’s causing children, AND adults to take a good look at their own behavior, and how it affects others. But this is a story about an adult, a teacher no less, who completely missed the point in the worst way.

It’s important to teach our young ones to share and to be nice when having to take turns. Apparently this lesson was seriously lost on a group of moms who were attending a preschool graduation at Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School in Los Angeles! See footage of the crazy melee in which thankfully none of the children, for whom the celebration was all supposed to be about, were injured.

In one of the most amazing videos I can recall, an 18-month-old is tossed from a stolen SUV during a high-speed police chase and is seen getting up and walking towards the wrecked vehicle. It turns out the robber and driver was the little girl’s daddy and the mother of the toddler is seen getting out of the SUV and rushing towards her child.