Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
“Jurassic Park 4″ to arrive June 2014, Steven Spielberg to produce
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “Jurassic Park 4″ will arrive in theaters June 13, 2014, Universal announced on Friday. Steven Spielberg won’t be directing this time around, but he is going to produce the project with Frank Marshall.Universal has yet to pick a director for the fourth installment of the dinosaur film franchise, which it plans to shoot and release in 3D. The studio and Spielberg have converted...
City Room: Cuomo Declares Public Health Emergency Over Flu Outbreak
Label: HealthWith the nation in the grip of a severe influenza outbreak that has seen deaths reach epidemic levels, New York State declared a public health emergency on Saturday, making access to vaccines more easily available.There have been nearly 20,000 cases of flu reported across the state so far this season, officials said. Last season, 4,400 positive laboratory tests were reported.“We are experiencing...
Treasury Will Not Mint $1 Trillion Coin to Raise Debt Ceiling
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said Saturday that it will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to head off an imminent battle with Congress over raising the government’s borrowing limit. “Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in...
Jan
11
S.F. mourns a twin with a passion for fashion
Label: World SAN FRANCISCO — They were known simply as the San Francisco Twins.At 5-foot-1 and about 100 pounds apiece, the fashion enthusiasts...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 12
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Alicia Keys, Katy Perry top bill at Obama inauguration parties
Label: LifestyleWASHINGTON (Reuters) – R&B singer Alicia Keys, country guitar slinger Brad Paisley and pop star Katy Perry are some of the A-list performers who will entertain partygoers at President Barack Obama’s inaugural celebration, organizers said on Friday.Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, two prominent elder statesmen of American music, also will perform at one of the three official parties planned for...
Former Lab Technician Denies Faulty DNA Work in Rape Cases
Label: HealthA former New York City laboratory technician whose work on rape cases is now being scrutinized for serious mistakes said on Friday that she had been unaware there were problems in her work and, disputing an earlier report, denied she had resigned under pressure. The former lab technician, Serrita Mitchell, said any problems must have been someone else’s. “My work?” Ms. Mitchell said....
Business Briefing | Retailing: Best Buy Shares Rally on Improved Holiday Sales
Label: Business The Best Buy Company had better-than-expected holiday sales, setting off a gain of $2, or 16.4 percent, in its stock price, to $14.21 a share on Friday. The holiday quarter accounted for about a third of Best Buy’s revenue last year. The chain said that revenue at stores open at least a year fell 1.4 percent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 5. The company’s performance in the United States was flat....
Jan
10
Lawsuit filed on behalf of 4 victims in Jenni Rivera plane crash
Label: World A company owned by the late Mexican American singer Jenni Rivera was named in a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of the four...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 11
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Relatives of singer Jenni Rivera’s co-passengers sue over plane crash
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Family members of four passengers who died with singer Jenni Rivera when her plane crashed in northern Mexico last year sued her corporation and the current and former owners of the aging Learjet they called a “bucket of bolts” on Thursday.The plaintiffs alleged in their Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that the 43-year-old aircraft was unsafe and being flown by two unqualified...
Parental Consent Rule May Proceed for a Circumcision Ritual, a Judge Says
Label: HealthNew York City health officials may proceed temporarily with a plan to require parental consent before an infant may undergo a particular Jewish circumcision ritual, a federal judge ruled Thursday. City officials say 12 cases of herpes simplex virus have likely resulted from the procedure, known as metzitzah b’peh, since 2000, including one Brooklyn case reported this week. Two infants died,...
Japan Approves $116 Billion in Emergency Economic Stimulus
Label: BusinessTOKYO — The Japanese government approved emergency stimulus spending of more than $100 billion on Friday, part of an aggressive push by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to kick-start growth in Japan’s long-moribund economy. Mr. Abe also reiterated pressure on Japan’s central bank to make a firmer commitment to stopping deflation by pumping more money into the economy — a measure the prime minister...
Jan
09
Irvine City Council overhauls oversight, spending on Great Park
Label: World Capping a raucous eight-hour-plus meeting, the Irvine City Council early Wednesday voted to overhaul the oversight and spending...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 10
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Award winning U.S. reporter Richard Ben Cramer dies of lung cancer
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – Pulitzer-Prize winning correspondent and author Richard Ben Cramer, best known for his chronicle of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, died on Monday in Baltimore.The cause of death was lung cancer, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where Cramer worked for seven years. He was 62.Cramer won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his coverage of Middle Eastern affairs...
Americans Under 50 Fare Poorly on Health Measures, New Report Says
Label: HealthYounger Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than their counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car accidents and drug addiction, according to a new analysis of health and longevity in the United States. Researchers have known for some time that the United States fares poorly in comparison with other rich countries, a trend established...
Chinese Firm Buys an American Solar Technology Start-Up
Label: BusinessAlexander F. Yuan/Associated PressThe chief of MiaSolé, John Carrington, left, at the announcement of the company’s purchase by Hanergy Holding Group, for which Zhou Jiesan is an executive. Just a few years ago, Silicon Valley investors were pouring money into solar technologies and talking about how they would bring the same kind of innovation to green energy that they had to the computer chip. ...
Jan
08
Judge rejects bid to shut Oakland pot dispensary
Label: World OAKLAND — The nation's largest medical marijuana dispensary won a round in federal court this week, with a judge rejecting efforts...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 9
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
“From Broadway With Love” benefit concert raising money for Sandy Hook victims
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Broadway is lending a helping hand to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.Brett Boles, author of the musical “Foreverman,” and Tony Award-winning producer Van Dean have organized a benefit concert later this month to raise money for United Way of Western Connecticut’s Sandy Hook School Support Fund.“From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy...
Economic Scene: Health Care and Pursuit of Profit Make a Poor Mix
Label: HealthThirty years ago, Bonnie Svarstad and Chester Bond of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered an interesting pattern in the use of sedatives at nursing homes in the south of the state. Patients entering church-affiliated nonprofit homes were prescribed drugs roughly as often as those entering profit-making “proprietary” institutions. But patients in proprietary...
Square Feet: New Revival Plans for Historic Providence, R.I., Power Plant
Label: BusinessPROVIDENCE, R.I. — As the new year dawns on Rhode Island’s capital city, a place still suffering a hangover from the recession, there is renewed interest in a waterfront building that has been vacant since plans to create a museum and hotel there collapsed in 2008. Known popularly as Dynamo House — the name for the failed project begun in 2007 by Baltimore-based developer Struever Brothers...
Jan
07
Banks, regulators reach mortgage settlements
Label: World In two of the biggest civil settlements since the financial crisis, the nation's biggest banks agreed Monday to cough up nearly...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 8
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
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