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Actress Lindsay Lohan is under investigation for misdemeanor battery for allegedly attacking a female staffer at the Betty Ford Center, where a Beverly Hills judge ordered the actress to stay for violating probation.

The rate of severe poisonings from battery ingestion among U.S. children has risen in the past 25 years, along with the growing use of lithium "button" batteries in a wide range of consumer products, new research shows.

Sean Penn's paparazzi run-in may land him in jail. Tiger Woods was far from being the only celeb who created a stir on Friday. News hit the press that 49-year-old Sean Penn is being charged with battery and other offenses after smacking around a paparazzo -- here's the story.

Former boxing champ Mike Tyson was detained by police at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday afternoon while they investigated a possible battery, authorities said.

By Texas Instruments, a new, 6mm-square Bluetooth system-on-a-chip can operate for "more than a year" on a small button-cell battery (like you see in watches or very tiny remotes). Everything from cellphones to laptops could get a battery boost from the technology increasing competition for the emerging Wi-Fi Direct to Connect technology.