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A federal appeals court said Tuesday that it would not dismiss a lawsuit accusing Google of wrongly collecting people's data and online activities through its Wi-Fi systems as its Street View cars crisscrossed the world.

The naming of the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has sparked a political debate about the legacy of a long-serving former mayor.

A proposed road in Alaska is pitting residents against environmentalists. The people who live in a remote village want better access to an airport with year-round flights to Anchorage for medical emergencies. But the road would cut through a wilderness area, which environmentalists say would set a bad precedent.

Last week a video of a girl dancing, falling and catching on fire made its way onto cable and local news networks. This week, late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel came forward to reveal that the video was a hoax and that he staged the whole thing. It's not the first time the press has been duped by videos engineered to go viral.

On the anniversary of 9/11, veteran Patrick Dowdell remembers his firefighter father who was killed on that day. An item of his father's recovered from the rubble was almost lost due to Sandy.

Marco Pasanella has owned a wine shop in Manhattan's South Street Seaport neighborhood for 12 years, and says he's "always optimistic about what can happen in the future."

In the coming months, the federal government will be awarding contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars for new surveillance technology along the Southwest border.

Long term Presiding Officer Bill Lindsay, 67, had bipartisan respect and an open, honest style.

Looks like culinary genius can run in the family. Historians have stumbled upon a 350-year-old English recipe for a frozen chocolate dessert that's a cross between sorbet and a frappe. The author is the great-grandfather of the inventor of the sandwich.

The jazz artist, who turned to singing when an injury ended his football career, claims three people as his main influences: his minister mother, his absentee father, and Nat King Cole. He discusses his musical life and the new album Liquid Spirit with NPR's Audie Cornish.