Videos

LOS ANGELES -- Google Inc.'s YouTube has struck a movie-rental deal with a fifth major Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures, adding 500 new titles to its expanding online library.

The addition of Paramount's films brings YouTube's rental library to nearly 9,000 titles, featuring such popular mainstream movies as Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning "Hugo," director Michael Bay's action-packed "Transformers" and classics including "The Godfather."

CHICAGO -- Joshua Moore shook his head in court Friday as prosecutors recounted scenes of animal abuse from videos posted to YouTube.

The videos showed a dog in a harness being spun like a propeller, dogs being tossed in the air and allowed to fall to the ground, puppies being hidden from their mother "as a form of psychological torture" and other disturbing acts, prosecutors said.

NORTH OGDEN -- Ron and Ginger Brown and their company, R & G Horses, are known for many business ventures with animals.

The Browns run a trail-riding business at Antelope Island, and their children have taken over a horse-training business at their home in North Ogden.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The 76-year-old snowbird wasn't planning on landing on the Internet that morning.

Paul Spates woke up at 5:15 a.m. on April 9 for his daily walk along the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk. Somewhere between New York and Fillmore streets, he became the victim of a severe beating and robbery that was caught on video.

Much to his embarrassment and dismay, Spates' attack is now eternalized on the Internet. He found out how much so when he returned to his home in Massachusetts earlier this summer and learned that nearly everyone at his senior center had already watched it.

"All you have to do is Google the words 'Paul' 'Spates' 'Hollywood' and it's there," he said recently.

With the proliferation of surveillance cameras everywhere, videos like these quickly are becoming an effective crime-fighting tool for law enforcement. But as police use them with increased frequency, more victims are saying they feel conflicted between the importance of seeking justice versus having their crimes shown repeatedly to the public.

NEW YORK -- Now playing: Movies at Walmart.com.

The world's largest retailer on Tuesday started streaming many movies the same day they come out on DVD, in a second bid for a share of popular movie rental and streaming website Netflix Inc.'s business and just two weeks after Netflix announced new price increases.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. bought video-streaming service Vudu.com 18 months ago and now offers 20,000 titles that can be viewed on almost any device with Internet access, from computers to televisions to Sony's PlayStation3 and other Blu-Ray disc players.

Movies are available at Walmart.com to rent for $1 to $5.99 or to purchase for $4.99 and up. Wal-Mart is not offering subscriptions, making its service more similar to Apple Inc.'s iTunes, which charges $3.99 to rent newly released movies and $14.99 to buy a movie.

OGDEN -- When Matt Goff was in eighth grade he became fascinated with movie making and editing in his publications class at Mount Ogden Junior High School.

He recently finished ninth grade and has taken that fascination to a whole new level.