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Legal fight looms over Dish Network's ad-skipping AutoHop feature
The major broadcast networks' legal skirmish with satellite television service Dish Network over its new ad-skipping device is shaping up to be a titanic struggle with enormous implications. The outcome of their high-profile dispute could influence...Tags: Media Industry, Bankruptcy, Television Industry, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Advertising
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Martinsburg man indicted on embezzlement and fraud charges
matthew.umstead@herald-mail.comA man accused of stealing $250,000 from a land development company that he and a sheriff’s deputy owned was indicted Thursday on embezzlement and fraud charges by a Berkeley County grand jury. George H. Van Wagner, 59, of P.O. Box 867 in...Tags: Prosecution, Trials, Theft, Embezzlement, Corporate Crime
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In Pittsburgh and other Rust Belt cities, more live alone
Since Allison Sturm's husband died 10 years ago, she's lived by herself at her apartment in Cincinnati. Friends and children visit from time to time, but she says she still feels alone in the city. "I don't like being lonely," Sturm, 79, said while...
Tags: Population and Census, Colleges and Universities, University of Cincinnati, Rentals, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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TV This Week for May 27 - June 2: 'Hemingway and Gellhorn' on HBO
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies...... -
U.S. declines to label China a currency manipulator
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration may be getting tougher with China on trade, but its approach in dealing with Beijing on the thorny currency issue remains patient diplomacy. The Treasury Department, in its semiannual report Friday on exchange-...
Tags: Currency Values, Beijing (China), Republican Party, U.S. Department of the Treasury, International Monetary Fund
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New biography details Obama's pot-smoking 'interceptions'
WASHINGTON-- Just in case there are any voters out there who don’t already know that the incumbent president smoked marijuana as a teenager, several websites Friday revealed details from David Maraniss’ soon-to-be-released biography about...
Tags: Memorial Day, Bill Clinton, Biography (genre)
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Yucca Mountain critic picked to head nuclear panel
WASHINGTON — Stirring the lingering debate over storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, President Obama tapped Yucca critic Allison Macfarlane as the new chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The nomination of Macfarlane, an...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Waste, Regulatory Policy and Organizations
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Senate agrees on FDA overhaul
Of The Morning CallWASHINGTON — In a momentary flash of bipartisanship, the Senate approved legislation that would allow Americans speedier access to generic drugs as well as breakthrough treatments for life-threatening diseases as part of a Food and Drug...Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Money and Monetary Policy, Health Organizations, Barack Obama
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Northampton Community College held a commencement ceremonies May 24
Northampton Community College held a commencement ceremony today (May 24) for more than 800 students who completed associate degrees, specialized diplomas and certificates during the spring semester. Another 755 students graduated in August and December,...Tags: Kenya, Egypt, Pen Argyl, Campbell (Osceola, Florida), Advanced Training
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Obama: Romney's 'prairie fire of debt' a 'cow pie of distortion'
WASHINGTON -- In a return to the state that launched his 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama found his folksy voice Thursday night as he warned Iowans that rival Mitt Romney had fed them a “cow pie of distortion.” “Now, I know...
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Republican Party, The Washington Post, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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Freedom's flag is flying again over Freedom's Fortress
HAMPTON — Just one month into the Civil War, Union soldiers stationed at Fort Monroe would have raised a 34-star American flag over the stone fort on the morning of May 24, 1861.
Even though 11 states had recently succeeded from the Union, you...Tags: Travel, Fort Monroe, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, Slavery
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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...Tags: Annapolis, Cancer, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945), Science and Technology
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