Curt Schilling Fires Staff, Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s faltering video game company, which received a $75 million loan guarantee to move to Rhode Island in 2010, laid off its entire staff on Thursday. An email sent by the 38 Studios company to workers and obtained by The Associated Press says they were [...]

2013 Ford C-max Hybrid, The 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid will start at $25,995 when it goes on sale this fall, said Ford Motor Co. on Thursday. The C-Max Hybrid is the first hybrid-only vehicle line from Ford in North America. Consumers will have a bit of trouble doing true comparison shopping, however, at this point. [...]

Mother’s Day Bouquet, Mother’s Day traditions tend to be simple and sweet – you can take your mom out for brunch, children do crafts and make cards, and of course, you can just treat your mother to some flowers. Red and pink roses, mums and lillies are some of the most common flowers used in [...]

Lichtenstein ‘Sleeping Girl’, Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 painting “Sleeping Girl” sold for $44.9 million tonight at Sotheby’s (BID) (BID) contemporary-art sale in New York. The price established a new auction record for the Pop artist (1923-1997), surpassing its high estimate of $40 million and the previous record of $43.2 million. The 3-foot-square image of a sultry [...]

$1B Scientific Ghost Town, A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology—but no people. A $1 billion city without residents will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, officials said Tuesday, to help researchers test everything from intelligent traffic systems and [...]

How To Get Financial Aid, Escalating substantially, the cost of college looms over students and parents as students determine what their options are for the future. Rather than letting the cost of college deter students from applying to certain schools, students can seek out another another option: financial aid. Students who are going to apply [...]

Vancouver Real Estate Cools Could Toronto Be Next?, Prices continue to rise in Canada’s two largest real estate markets, but a closer look at the numbers shows two housing markets headed in different directions. Both cities have been singled out by the Canadian Real Estate Association for either skewing the national numbers higher and lower [...]

Largest Manmade Island, Kings Island, an artificial island 15 miles off the coast of Denmark, is on sale for $14 million (via Luxuo). At 70,000 square meters, it’s the largest man-made island in the world. Also known as Middelgrundsfortet, it was created in 1890 as a sea fortress, and served as a military area until [...]