Topic: Facebook

Virginia Republican Chairman Pat Mullins announced Wednesday on Facebook there would be a meeting Jan. 21 to reconsider a voter loyalty pledge, officials say.

A Swedish man is accused of raping five teenage girls he allegedly met on Facebook, prosecutors said.

Finding a job in 2012 will be hard but not hopeless, Chicago human resources firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Tuesday.

A small town in British Columbia is mourning the New Year's Day mobile home fire that killed a 28-year-old man and his two sons, 3 and 4, police said.

The manager of a Detroit nightclub was shot and killed while trying to break up an altercation between customers on New Year's Day, police said.

The killing of hundreds of people at the hands of Syrian security forces is a tragedy condemned by much of the world, the U.S. envoy to Damascus said.

The 20-year-old Englishman charged with killing an Indian university student gave his first name as "Psycho" during a brief court appearance Monday.

Rioting broke out in Assuit, Egypt, after a 15-year-old Coptic student allegedly posted offensive images of the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook, authorities say.

A Florida man removed from a civil trial jury after sending a Facebook friend request to a defendant was "very close to going to jail," an attorney said.

The use of Nazi symbols and Holocaust prisoner uniforms by protesting ultra-Orthodox Jews in a Jerusalem neighborhood sparked a national outcry Sunday.