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The Monster Beverage company is responding back to a lawsuit toward them, alleging its energy drinks were responsible for the death of a 14-year-old Maryland girl saying that no blood test was performed to confirm she died of "caffeine toxicity."

A third of Barnes & Noble stores may close within the next decade, report says A third of Barnes & Noble stores may close in next decade, report says Barnes & Noble Inc. Chairman Leonard Riggio wants to buy the company's stores, and leave the company's Nook e-book business as a separate company, according to CNN.com.

Carl Pistorius, the brother of Para Olympian Oscar who is involved in a murder case, faces his own legal troubles. This stems from a charge of unlawful, negligent killing for a 2008 road death, "in which a woman motorcyclist sadly lost her life," Kenneth Oldwage, the Pistorius family lawyer said on Sunday. The accident occurred in Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg. The charge of "culpable homicide" was dropped, then reinstated and will be challenged in court, the lawyer told the Associated Press.