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A falling dollar is a mixed blessing for small business. Photo: Jessica Shapiro The Australian dollar has lost ground against the US dollar in recent weeks a situation likely to be welcomed by the manufacturing, tourism and education sectors, as ...

Attorneys for the teenager accused of kidnapping, killing and dismembering 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway are seeking to move the case out of Jefferson County and close court proceedings to the public. More than 20 motions were filed last week by ...

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Actress Deborah Ann Woll, who plays Jessica Hamby in True Blood — now entering into its sixth season — talks about her character's sexy new style, the bullying she experienced at school and why she wouldn't glamour away a thing. Hoyt, Jessica ...

New Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Edith Ramirez this week named long-time privacy advocate Jessica Rich to head the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Described as a driving force behind the Bureau's ongoing consumer privacy issues ...

By Jessica Derschowitz / CBS News/ June 19, 2013, 5:05 PM "Fifty Shades of Grey" has found its director. Sam Taylor-Johnson has signed on to direct the film adaptation of E.L. James' bestselling book, it was announced Wednesday. "I am excited to ...

The chaotic, ethically murky case of a 10-year-old girl in need of lungs. On Oct. 14, 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell into an 8-inch-diameter well pipe in the backyard of her aunt in Midland, Texas. She remained there for 58 hours before ...

By Jessica Derschowitz / CBS News/ June 19, 2013, 3:22 PM Shailene Woodley has been cut from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," and so has the character she was to play. Woodley ("The Descendants") reportedly filmed a handful of scenes as Mary Jane ...

Jessica Walter is tired of scripts changing at the last minute. In a roundtable discussion of television actresses convened by The Hollywood Reporter, Walter, a star of "Arrested Development," described recent experiences on the job at a ...