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SEATTLE (AP) — T-Mobile says it has a new way to further transform the way people buy mobile phones. It’s offering people the ability to take home the latest iPhone 5S for a seven-day trial. That will let them see if they get good reception at their home and office. The fourth-ranked mobile carrier says […]
Some athletes are turning to an alternative liquid other than energy drinks. They’re relying on human breast milk for boosting energy and overall health. Only the Breast and Human Milk 4 Human Babies are two sites where a number of athletes buy the milk for $2.50 an ounce. Anthony, a 30-something-year-old from Queens, New York told NYMag.com there are “a lot of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Washington Football Team nickname is “disparaging of Native Americans” and that the team’s trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name. The 2-1 ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A developer who mistakenly built a $1.8 million waterfront house on parkland has been ordered to remove it. The Rhode Island Supreme Court found that the unoccupied home in Narragansett was built entirely on land owned by the Rose Nulman Park Foundation, and therefore must be removed. The developer, Four Twenty […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque officials say a bus driver in the New Mexico city has been fired after surveillance cameras caught him in a sex act with a woman while at work. KOAT-TV reports according to the video, the driver stopped at a park and ride on the morning of May 6 and a […]
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the country’s first six cases of chikungunya fever, a debilitating, mosquito-borne virus that is suspected of afflicting tens of thousands across the Caribbean since its arrival in the region last year. In a statement published by Communist Party newspaper Granma and other official media, the Health […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from Congress, celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz on Tuesday offered to help “drain the swamp” of unscrupulous marketers using his name to peddle so-called miracle pills and cure-alls to millions of Americans desperate to lose weight. Oz appeared before the Senate’s consumer protection panel and was scolded by Chairman Claire McCaskill, […]
STONE PARK, Ill. (AP) — A convent of nuns in suburban Chicago has filed a lawsuit against a neighbor, a strip club they say plays throbbing music while the nuns try to pray. The Sisters of St. Charles named Club Allure Chicago and the village of Stone Park in their lawsuit filed Friday in Cook […]
Unemployed Blacks More Resilient During Job Search than Whites The so-called recovery of the US economy has not been equally kind to everyone. Even as the unemployment…
PILGER, Neb. (AP) — A powerful storm with tornadoes ripped through northeast Nebraska on Monday, destroying more than half of the tiny town of Pilger, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring at least 19 people, hospital and emergency officials said. The National Weather Service said dual twisters touched down within roughly a mile of each […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Food companies and restaurants could soon face government pressure to make their foods less salty — a long-awaited federal effort to try to prevent thousands of deaths each year from heart disease and stroke. The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to issue voluntary guidelines asking the food industry to lower sodium […]
CHICAGO (AP) — At least six locations in three different states entered official bids by Monday’s deadline in an effort to house President Barack Obama’s presidential library. Four of the confirmed bidders are from Chicago, the president’s hometown, and a fifth was expected. Obama’s birth state of Hawaii offered an oceanfront location in Honolulu. And Columbia […]
