10-year-old pulls gun after candy theft joke

AIKEN, S.C.?? South Carolina officials say a 10-year-old trick-or-treater pulled a 9mm handgun on a woman who joked that she'd steal his Halloween candy.

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The Augusta Chronicle reported Tuesday that a 28-year-old woman told authorities she recognized some youngsters Monday evening and she joked she'd take their candy.

Aiken Public Safety Lt. David Turno says a 10-year-old in the group said "no" and pointed the handgun at her.

Turno says the gun wasn't loaded but the boy had a clip of ammunition. He was taken to the police station and was turned over to his parents.

Turno said the boy's brother, who is also 10, told officials he also had a gun and both weapons were recovered by police. Turno says the boys got them from their grandfather without his permission.

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Sony warns of 4th annual loss; flags $2.2 billion TV loss (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Sony Corp surprised investors on Wednesday by warning it is heading for its fourth straight annual net loss and that its TV business alone would produce a loss of $2.2 billion due to tumbling demand and a surging yen.

The maker of Bravia TVs, Vaio computers and PlayStation game consoles cut its sales forecast for TVs, cameras and DVD players on Wednesday and said it may report 90 billion yen ($1.1 billion) net loss in the current financial year, scrapping its earlier net profit estimate of 60 billion yen.

Investors had expected Sony to reduce its profit forecast, but not flag a swing to massive losses.

Sony vowed to bring an end to losses in its TV division, which it expects to report its eighth straight annual loss. But it gave scant details of a plan to halve losses next year and drag the unit into the black by March 2014.

"I am surprised at the extent of the losses and I was anticipating TV restructuring, so I feel let down on both counts," said Shigeo Sugawara, senior investment manager at Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management, which owns Sony shares.

"We were focused on what would happen to Sony's TV division, but I don't see any drastic restructuring steps, in fact I can't even see any signs they've begun to cut," he added.

Sony said it would revamp LCD panel procurement, but second-in-command Kazuo Hirai declined to comment on reports it would end a panel joint venture with Samsung Electronics.

The lack of firm details from Hirai, in a rare appearance at an earnings conference on Wednesday, dashed investor hopes that the once-stellar brand is at last getting to grips with its struggling TV business and can challenge smartphone rivals.

Sony said it expected TV losses to be 175 billion yen ($2.2 billion) this financial year, including a 50 billion yen impairment charge. It cut TV sales forecast by 9 percent to 20 million sets, its second reduction this year.

"The TV business is an essential part of Sony's growth strategy. We, as management, feel a great sense of crisis after seven straight years of losses," Hirai, executive deputy president, told a briefing. He described this year's losses as a necessary step toward recovery.

Hirai, appointed to the company's No. 2 position this year, must map out a plan for earnings growth if he is to take over the top job from Welsh-born Howard Stringer, analysts said.

Shares of Sony tumbled 3.6 percent to 1,520 yen on Wednesday, although the results were released after the close of Tokyo's market. It resumes trading on Friday after a public holiday on Thursday.

RESCUE PLAN 'NOT ENOUGH'

Sony, which also cut its full-year operating-profit outlook by 90 percent to its lowest level in three years, said earlier this week that it would split its television business into three divisions of outsourcing, LCD TVs and next-generation TVs from November 1 to turn around the operation.

Sony might also pull out of its flat-screen venture with Samsung Electronics Co, sources say, which will enable it to cut panel supply costs and improve its TV business earnings. The company revealed no details of such a plan on Wednesday.

"Sony has not done enough to rescue its TV business," said Jeff Yeh, chief investment officer of Taiwan-based Capital Investment Trust's overseas portfolios, which has $1 billion of client assets.

"It took them 15 years to become an electronics giant, but it only took them the last five years to plunge to where they are," he added, saying he would not buy Sony shares in the near future and did not own any currently.

Many global TV brands including Panasonic and Philips are losing money from TV sales, hit by faltering demand and growing competition from low-cost producers.

Dutch electronics firm Philips agreed on Tuesday to transfer its loss-making TV business into a joint venture with TPV Technology.

Once a symbol of Japan's high-tech might, Sony is struggling to come up with hit devices and finds itself outmaneuvered in TVs by Samsung Electronics and in the booming smartphone market by Apple.

Sony posted an operating loss of 1.6 billion yen for July-September, well below analysts' consensus forecast of 40 billion yen profit.

Sony shares have fallen 48 percent since the start of the year, compared with a 16 percent fall in the broader market, hit by the March earthquake and a massive security breach on its PlayStation and other networks, as well as yen strength and the Thai flooding disaster.

Sony blamed the deluge in Thailand for cutting 25 billion yen in expected earnings, but said it had not yet factored their impact into unit sales forecasts, which it trimmed for a range of major products.

It is the latest in a lengthening list of Japanese firms that have posted poor quarterly results due to the strong yen, flooding and weak demand in the United States and Europe.

The list includes Honda Motor Co, Panasonic, Nintendo Co Ltd and Nomura Holdings. ($1=78.28 yen)

(Additional reporting by James Topham, Michiko Iwasaki and Lisa Twaronite in TOKYO and Faith Hung in TAIPEI; Editing by Miyoung Kim, Chris Gallagher and Vinu Pilakkott)

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Nicolas Cage's son Weston files for divorce

Whoever said it wouldn't last was right on.

Nicolas Cage's eldest son, Weston, has filed for divorce from his wife of six months, Nikki Williams Cage.

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And, judging by their respective Facebook posts, the decision to split up was not one of their "irreconcilable differences."

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"The single life is perfect," Williams, having already dropped the "Cage" from her profile, wrote on her Facebook wall.

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But, really, that was nothing compared to Weston, who wrote on his own page: "WELL ITS OFFICAL . THE DIVORCE IS SETTLED! ..................LADIES, DADDY IS BACK ahahahhahahaahh oh god! its on."

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In court documents filed Oct. 27 and obtained by E! News, Cage listed their date of separation as Oct. 24, their six-month anniversary ? even though he wrote back in July that he planned to divorce Williams, whom he also implied at the time was pregnant. They do not have any children, however.

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The not-quite-21-year-old Cage, who was arrested in July on suspicion of felony domestic violence and then entered rehab, is also requesting that the judge not order him to pay spousal support.

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Girl, Apple's gonna make you sweat with a treadmill patent

Wednesday means we're about to delve into Cupertino's newest patents. Remember: just because there's a patent, doesn't mean it'll be in your next iPad. Got it? Good. This week's haul starts with a rather dry patent to correct bad motion sensing. Accelerometer-based devices are only as good as the data it collects, using a flat horizontal plane as a reference point -- any incline and the whole show is ruined. Apple's 3D patent can mathematically correct for gravitational movement along the "plane of motion." The second's about getting sweaty on sports equipment. Shove your iPod into a treadmill and it'll record your vital statistics for uploading to a third party website for "mutual encouragement." It wouldn't be hard to imagine this working its way into something similar to Nike+, but it would be hard to imagine Nike insisting that Apple just do it.

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Ancestors had sex with mysterious cousins

Neanderthals weren't the only ancient cousins that humans frequently mated with, according to a new study that finds that East Asian populations share genes with a mysterious archaic hominin species that lived in Siberia 40,000 years ago.

This group, the Denisovans, is known only by a few bone fragments: A finger bone, a tooth and possibly a toe bone, which is still undergoing analysis. The Denisovans likely split off from the Neanderthal branch of the hominin family tree about 300,000 years ago, but little else is known about their appearance, behavior or dress. But just as researchers have learned that ancient humans and Neanderthals mated, they've also found genetic echoes of the Denisovans in modern residents of Pacific islands, including New Guinea and the Philippines.

The new research expands the Denisovan genetic influence, uncovering Denisovan genes in modern East Asian populations. The genetic signal is less strong than it is in the Oceanic islands such as the Philippines, said study researcher Mattias Jakobsson, a professor of evolutionary biology at Uppsala University in Sweden. On the Asian mainland, the genetic similarities to Denisovans are strongest in southern China and Southeast Asia.

"We are actually finding gene flow in Southeast Asia," Jakobsson told LiveScience. "So it's not restricted to the Oceanian parts of the world."

Jakobsson and his colleagues first ran complex computer simulations of genetic data to understand how the limited gene information collected in population genetics research, which includes just segments of DNA, might be biased. With that understanding, the group then examined genetic data from more than 1,500 modern humans from all over the world.

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Comparing that modern data with the Denisovan genome revealed that Asians, especially Southeast Asians, have a higher proportion of Denisovan-related gene variants than other world populations except for the Oceanic islanders. While Oceanians have about a 5 percent fraction of Denisovan-related ancestry, Southeast Asians have around 1 percent, the researchers report Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In comparison, genes from modern non-African humans have about a 2.5 percent fraction of Neanderthal ancestry.

It's hard to tell when the Denisovan and human interbreeding occurred, Jakobsson said, but since Europeans don't have Denisovan ancestry, it's likely the mating occurred around 23,000 to 45,000 years ago, after Southeast Asians and European populations diverged.

Jakobsson and his colleagues are working on further studies on early human genetics and the steps that led to the modern human genome. The more digging scientists do, the more complex the genetic picture becomes, he said. Notably, bits of genes are almost all that are left behind of some ancient populations, including the Denisovans, he said.

"We don't really know what they looked like, how they behaved or anything like that," Jakobsson said. "It's really genetics that gives us an edge here."

You can follow LiveScience senior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience ? and on Facebook.

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Man accused of celeb hacking to appear in court (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? A Florida man is expected to make his first appearance in a California courtroom Tuesday after being charged with hacking into the email accounts of celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet.

Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, Fla., was indicted last month on 26 counts, including unauthorized access to a computer and wiretapping. If convicted, he faces up to 121 years in prison.

Chaney was arrested as part of a yearlong investigation of celebrity hacking that authorities dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi."

There were more than 50 victims in the case, including Christina Aguilera, Johansson and Mila Kunis. Some nude photos taken by Johansson herself were posted on the Internet. Chaney offered some material to celebrity blog sites but there isn't any evidence that he profited from his scheme, authorities said.

Chaney is accused of mining through publicly available data and figured out password and security questions for celebrity accounts. He hijacked a forwarding feature so that a copy of every email received was sent to an account he controlled, according to court documents.

A search warrant unsealed and obtained by The Associated Press said Chaney's computer hard drive contained numerous private celebrity photos as well as a document that compiled their extensive personal data.

Chaney, who is free on $10,000 bond, has apologized for his actions. His attorney, Christopher Chestnut, told AP last week that his client doesn't want the case to drag on, but the resolution has to be within reason.

The warrant also said Chaney may have stalked a Connecticut woman online for the past 12 years. The document contends there is probable cause that Chaney violated federal charges of stalking and unauthorized access to a computer.

No other charges have been filed against Chaney.

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FDA backs Vytorin for kidney disease patients (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The Food and Drug Administration says Merck's cholesterol drug Vytorin helps reduce heart attack, stroke and related problems in patients with kidney disease, a potential new use for the blockbuster drug.

The agency's online review also found no new safety concerns with Vytorin, which came under scrutiny for potential cancer risks in 2008.

Merck has asked the FDA to approve the drug for a new use in reducing heart-related problems chronic kidney disease patients. The combination pill is already cleared to reduce bad cholesterol.

FDA says that Vytorin lowered kidney disease patients' heart-related problems by 16 percent compared with placebo. However results varied depending on whether patients were receiving dialysis, standard treatment for patients with late-stage kidney disease who can no longer remove waste from their blood. Patients on dialysis only saw a six percent drop in heart problems, compared with a 22 percent reduction for healthier patients not on dialysis.

On Wednesday, the FDA will ask non-government advisers to comment on the disparity and to vote on the overall safety and efficacy of the drug for kidney disease patients.

Vytorin, a $2 billion-a-year drug for Merck, combines two brand-name cholesterol pills Zocor and Zetia.

In July 2008, preliminary results from a four-year study indicated a possible increased risk of cancer in patients getting Vytorin. But FDA's latest review found no evidence of a link between Vytorin and cancer.

"We believe these data should help lay to rest investor concerns about Vytorin and Zetia's safety," Leerink Swann analyst Seamus Fernandez wrote in a research note Monday.

Shares of Merck & Co. Inc. fell 23 cents to $34.88 in morning trading Monday.

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