Net Neutrality Ignore at your own risk
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Tech writers live by analogy, so I’ll start today’s column with one about a hypothetical bedroom community called HomeTown.
It’s a great place to live, but most of its residents work 20 miles away in the bustling metropolis of JobVille.
To keep providing schools, parks and paved streets, the government of HomeTown wants people to work there, [...]
Police Have Suspect in Ark. Shooting
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A student injured in a shooting at the University of Arkansas was recovering in a hospital Thursday and campus police said they have a suspect.James Earl Matthews, 33, a junior studying radio, television and theater, suffered gunshot wounds to his midriff and buttocks and underwent surgery Wednesday.”The outlook is good,” for [...]
Farrakhan Stick With Obama
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CHICAGO - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday that backers of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shouldn’t be dissuaded by the senator’s denunciation of Farrakhan during a Democratic debate.His statement comes after Obama was asked during Tuesday’s televised debate with Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton about Farrakhan’s support for the Obama campaign. [...]
Clinton Offers Child Poverty Plan
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HANGING ROCK, Ohio - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a plan to improve childhood nutrition and set a goal to reduce by half the 12 million youngsters living in poverty over the next dozen years.The package of proposals includes a “comprehensive” early education initiative that starts with nurse’s visits for pregnant women, lets children begin [...]
MMA strikes deal with CBS
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LOS ANGELES - Mixed martial arts will air on one of the major television networks for the first time.
CBS announced a deal Thursday with ProElite, which produces MMA events, to broadcast in prime time a sport that has been growing in popularity. The plan is to televise two-hour live specials four times a year [...]
Colo. Town Threatened by Water Buildup
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LEADVILLE, Colo. - Emergency sirens and loudspeakers have been tested and sensors installed. Bulldozers have cut an escape route. Townspeople have been warned to assemble “grab-it-and-go” kits with first aid supplies, water, flashlights and blankets.A concealed threat is hanging over this old Wild West mining town: A billion gallons of toxic water is trapped in [...]
Cost to Feed Hogs Drags Smithfield 3Q
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NORFOLK, Va. - Pork producer Smithfield Foods said Thursday that third-quarter profits fell about 10 percent on lower live hog prices and higher raising costs, but the results beat expectations handily.The nation’s largest hog producer and pork processor also forecast a difficult fourth quarter.”We are in an environment where raising hogs is not profitable,” said [...]
CBS to Air MMA Events
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LOS ANGELES - Mixed martial arts will air on one of the major television networks for the first time.CBS announced a deal Thursday with ProElite, which produces MMA events, to broadcast in prime time a sport that has been growing in popularity. The plan is to televise two-hour live specials four times a year on [...]
Wis. Man Gets Life in Wifes Poisoning
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KENOSHA, Wis. - Mark Jensen trembled slightly as he was told he will never leave prison for suffocating his wife after poisoning her with antifreeze.”I’ve come to the conclusion that if I were to impose anything less than the maximum sentence in this case, I’d feel I had cheated the other people because your crime [...]
Samsung Son Appears for Questioning
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SEOUL, South Korea - The son of the chief executive of powerful Samsung Group appeared for questioning Thursday by special prosecutors investigating allegations of corruption at the huge conglomerate.”I know there are a lot of concerns about me and Samsung,” Lee Jae-yong, son of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, told reporters upon arrival for questioning [...]
