• iPod Touch 6th Generation Release Date: Expected to Launch with Apple Watch in Spring 2015

  Fans of Apple's iPod Touch are anxiously awaiting news of the sixth generation of the popular portable media player, but Apple's eerie silence has some believing that the device's time has come and gone to instead focus on the Apple Watch.

  

• Eric Garner 'Chokehold' Protests Turn Violent In Berkeley and Seattle

  Despite promises of a peaceful protest following a no-indictment ruling of a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, a march in Berkeley, California and Seattle, Washington turned violent as protesters smashed windows and assaulted police.

  

• Comedy Central's The Daily Show to Feature Restaurant Owner Who 'Got Bullied' For Offering Prayer Discounts

  Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will be featuring a North Carolina restaurant owner on the show this week after a controversy erupted earlier in the year regarding that restaurant's discounts given to patrons who prayed before their meals.

  

• Florida Baptist Church Pastor James 'Tripp' Battle Shot Dead in Triple Homicide, Suspect Still On The Run

  A manhunt is underway for a man suspected of fatally shooting his wife, a neighbor, and a local pastor in a small Florida town. The suspect, 33-year-old father of six, Andres "Andy" Avalos, is reportedly armed and dangerous as Florida police search for the man in and around Bradenton, located about 45 miles south of Tampa.

  

• Alabama Town's Annual Christmas Parade Targeted by Atheists, Christians Fight to 'Keep Christ in Christmas'

  Piedmont, Alabama's annual Christmas parade committee chose "Keep Christ in Christmas" for this year's parade theme, but a national atheist group quickly put a stop to that.