Brooks Hays
LITTLE CARLTON, England, March 2 (UPI) -- The excavation of an ancient Anglo-Saxon island settlement in Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire, has yielded styli, coins, pottery and more.
State transport commissioner Shyam Wardhane held a meeting with representatives of two-wheeler manufacturers on Wednesday and appealed to them to spend their CSR funds to create awareness on importance of helmets.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The upstate homes of black families who migrated north decades ago, a New York City library designed by a renowned Gilded Age architect and a rail corridor in the Adirondacks were added Wednesday to a New York preservation's list of historic places to save. [...] a designation from the group provides "invaluable" assistance and boosts public awareness for endangered properties across the state, said Jay DiLorenzo, president of the Albany-based organization. Beverly Bardequez... Читать дальше...
Stoudemire accused some Knicks of not embracing Jeremy Lin
Complying with the FBI in the San Bernardino, Calif., iPhone case could make it much harder for Apple to rebuff the demands of repressive governments in China and elsewhere abroad, write Li Yuan.
Ben Hooper
LAS CRUCES, N.M., March 2 (UPI) -- Police in New Mexico said a suspected drunken intruder kicked his way into a closed convenience store, took a pack of cigarettes and left $6 on the counter.
Microsoft shocked gamers when the news broke Monday that it wants a future where Xbox and Windows play the same games, with the Xbox upgraded on a more frequent basis and working more like a PC. With games developed for the Windows 10 universal platform, PC gamers will also be able to play top new Xbox releases on their desktop and vice versa.
Dave Cote seeks to draw line under unsuccessful $90bn pursuit of United Technologies
Marie-Helene Estienne’s name may not ring a bell but this Frenchwoman has been integral to British theatre legend Peter Brook’s creative force. Marie was a young journalist who quit her job because she’d “rather be doing something to change the bad theatre scene in France than carry on writing about it” and grew into a powerhouse – writing, casting and co-directing together with Brook over three decades.
TRENTON, New Jersey - Was that really Chris Christie, the brusque, take-a-back-seat-to-no-one governor of New Jersey?
[...] after Tuesday night's appearance, conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg of the anti-Trump National Review imagined Christie was thinking: "My God what have I done?" Others saw the same thing in Christie's blank stare and robotic words of introduction. Republican Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency administrator, told The Star-Ledger of Newark last week she would rather vote for Hillary Clinton than Trump. In the past few days, the politician... Читать дальше...
Remember that time Kanye West had a so-called "meltdown" before appearing on "Saturday Night Live" last month? The whole thing was recorded -- he swore a bunch, threatened not to perform (but did, obviously) and insulted Taylor Swift for the umpteenth time.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Prescription drug distributor McKesson Corp. is buying Canadian pharmacy operator Rexall Health from Katz Group for $2.2 billion, strengthening McKesson's Canadian pharmaceutical supply chain.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prescription drug distributor McKesson Corp. is buying Canadian pharmacy operator Rexall Health from Katz Group for $2.2 billion, strengthening McKesson's Canadian pharmaceutical supply chain. The deal would be worth about $1.9 billion after tax benefits. It is expected to close late this year. San Francisco-based McKesson will acquire about 470 of Rexall's retail pharmacies, bolstering its Canadian operations and bringing the number of employees at its Canadian unit to 13,000. Читать дальше...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prescription drug distributor McKesson Corp. is buying Canadian pharmacy operator Rexall Health from Katz Group for $2.2 billion, strengthening McKesson's Canadian pharmaceutical supply chain. The deal would be worth about $1.9 billion after tax benefits. It is expected to close late this year. San Francisco-based McKesson will acquire about 470 of Rexall's retail pharmacies, bolstering its Canadian operations and bringing the number of employees at its Canadian unit to 13,000. Читать дальше...
Carl Frampton must box Guillermo Rigondeaux by 27 July to avoid being stripped of one of his two world super-bantamweight belts.
In a NASA interview before heading home to Houston, Kelly said it was "amazing" to feel the cold air when the hatch of his Soyuz capsule popped open after touchdown. "Congratulations on your record," former cosmonaut and Kazak space agency chief Talgat Musabayev said at a welcoming ceremony. Minutes after emerging from their capsule, they were whisked in chairs to a medical tent where they did their best to stand, walk, jump, navigate obstacles — everything an astronaut might need to do immediately upon arriving at Mars. Читать дальше...
(AP) — An apparent information breach at Illinois State University allowed someone to divert the direct-deposit payroll payments of more than a dozen faculty and staff members to another account, according to university officials. An email was sent to all faculty, staff and students on Tuesday afternoon to make them aware of what happened so they can check their accounts and make sure there's no suspicious activity. Officials believe the person or people who are responsible for the data breach... Читать дальше...
WASHINGTON - Shares of agricultural business giant Monsanto plummeted Wednesday after the maker of biotech seeds slashed its 2016 guidance due to worse-than-expected sales expectations for its products.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of agricultural business giant Monsanto plummeted Wednesday after the maker of biotech seeds slashed its 2016 guidance due to worse-than-expected sales expectations for its products. A combination of headwinds, including pricing pressures and negative currency rates, is "proving to be even more challenging," than the company estimated, Monsanto chief financial officer Pierre Courduroux, said in a statement.
Screened high-tech specialists will be brought in to try to breach the Defense Department's public Internet pages in a pilot program aimed at finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Department officials will first have to work through a number of legal issues involving the authorization of individuals to breach active websites.
HARTFORD, Connecticut - The U.S. Marine Corps dog tag being peddled by a war artifacts seller caught Charles Thompson's eye when he was vacationing with friends in Vietnam. He plunked down the equivalent of about $3 for the piece of metal, with the hope of returning it - he assumed - to the family of the fallen Marine.
(AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps dog tag being peddled by a war artifacts seller caught Charles Thompson's eye when he was vacationing with friends in Vietnam. After hours of Internet searching over the course of the next year, the resident of Weybridge, England, was pleasantly surprised to learn the Marine was still alive. Thompson, a 26-year-old who works in investment management at BNY Mellon in London, came across the tag just south of the city of Hue on the central Vietnam coast. In the following months after returning home... Читать дальше...
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Gardena Serra, both overshadowed by stronger teams in league play, have made it through the Southern Section 4AA playoffs in great shape and will face off on Friday night at 6:45 p.m. at Azusa Pacific to decide the 4AA championship.
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