Police in a city ranked top in the state for alcohol-related traffic fatalities might soon be trying a new tactic to keep drunken drivers off the road: Electronic shaming on Facebook. In a contentious move that has raised the hackles of privacy advocates and been met with resistance from a police department fearful of alienating residents, a councilman in Huntington ... Read More »

Apple Inc.’s 78 percent surge in profit, buoyed by holiday purchases of iPads, iPhones and Mac computers, helped allay concerns about the company’s prospects as Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs takes medical leave. Net income in the fiscal first quarter rose to $6 billion, or $6.43 a share, from $3.38 billion, or $3.67, a year earlier, Apple said yesterday in ... Read More »

Looks like investors believe that Steve Jobs is the iron hand that holds the Apple together and without him Apple would really hit the floor. Apple Inc. shares fell 4.4% in early trading Tuesday, erasing about $15 billion in market value, after the consumer-electronics company disclosed that company visionary Chief Executive Steve Jobs would take another medical leave. Few CEOs ... Read More »

“The King’s Speech,” in which Colin Firth plays the stammering King George VI, won 14 BAFTA nominations on Tuesday, ahead of ballet drama “Black Swan” which garnered 12. “Inception,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was the next most popular movie at Britain’s top film honors with nine nominations, ahead of climbing story “127 Hours” and Western remake “True Grit” with eight apiece. ... Read More »

There was a time in the mid 1990s when women barraged their hair salons with photos of Jennifer Aniston to copy her haircut. The layered cut was given the name “The Rachel” for Aniston’s character, named Rachel Green, on the “Friends” television series. She wore the style on the show’s first and second season. One person who was not a ... Read More »

There’s new hope for an overlooked epidemic: Two powerful drugs are nearing the market that promise to help cure many more people of liver-attacking hepatitis C — even though most who have the simmering infection don’t know it yet. Surprisingly, two-thirds of hepatitis C sufferers are thought to be baby boomers who’ve harbored since their younger, perhaps wilder, years a ... Read More »

Feeling snubbed, slighted even, when he visited five years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao is getting a do-over — plus the White House state dinner he sought back then but was denied. Wednesday’s opulent, black-tie affair with President Barack Obama — the grandest of White House soirees — will mark the first such event in China’s honor in 13 years ... Read More »