The debate is finally over and the controversial festival gets to keep its name. Members of the Fort Myers Beach Town Council voted four to one to not to change the name of the Turkey Testicle Festival.

Crime surveillance cameras in Cincinnati will get smarter next year if City Council has its way.  A majority of council members made their intention clear: They would like to spend about $6 million in the next two years on digital cameras intended to zoom in on anyone who has fired a gun.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Silicon Valley said their telephone survey indicated more than one of every eight US residents showed at least one sign of "problematic Internet use."

Certainly if a website is very popular it has to be a quality site, right?

Conflicts between baboons and humans in the suburbs of prosperous Cape Town have gotten so bad that monitoring teams have been deployed to keep the animals away. The large monkeys invade people’s homes in the coastal Table Mountain region, sometimes confronting people who try to scare the baboons off.

Schoolchildren in Scotland are losing the ability to learn for themselves because they are getting too much help with homework from their parents, a leading university principal has warned.

Users of online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft transact millions of dollars worth of virtual goods and services every day, and these virtual economies are beginning to draw the attention of real-world authorities.

Reuters, the international news agency, has opened a virtual news bureau in Second Life, the massively popular online game.

Milk containing alcohol can prevent food allergies in babies. Scientists say that ingredients in the fermented drink kefir may block immune responses which cause allergic reactions.