• With Tugg, people can pick movies to show at local theaters

    Nearly 400 people crammed into an auditorium at the Chinese 6 Theatres in the Hollywood Highland shopping center to watch “One Day on Earth,” a documentary made by thousands of volunteer filmmakers around the world to promote awareness about climate change and other global issues. The sold-out screening Sunday afternoon was organized not by the [...]
     
  • AT&T Promotes Safe Driving

    Since 2009, ATT has invested over 50 million dollars in its South Dakota networks. Now, the mobile internet provider is pushing a new campaign to prevent texting and driving, as well as continuing to expand service in the state. “It all boils down to really two things: coverage and speed,” said Hardmon Williams, Vice President [...]
     
  • Apple iPhone offers little growth to AT&T

    The iPhone is a hot seller, but that doesn’t mean it’s a growth driver for the industry. (Credit: CNET) ATT remains the king of the iPhone, but that distinction means less with each passing quarter. The Dallas telecommunications giant sold 4.3 million iPhones in the first quarter, more than 1 million more than Verizon Wireless, [...]
     
  • Luck, Griffin nearly teamed up at Stanford

    Enrolling at Stanford may have been the best decision Andrew Luck ever made. Not enrolling at Stanford seems to have worked out equally well for Robert Griffin III. The quarterbacks will be the No. 1 and No. 2 picks in the NFL draft on Thursday night, with Luck going first to the Indianapolis Colts, then [...]
     
  • Competitiveness drives Stephanopoulos at ABC

    NEW YORK (AP) — George Stephanopoulos doesn’t really get days off. He gets hours. The co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” during the week and host of the Sunday political talk show “This Week” has both shows at such competitive crossroads this spring that his bosses are reluctant to give him time off. “GMA” snapped [...]
     
  • Monthly smartphone bills down at AT&T – AP

    NEW YORK — Hidden in ATT Inc.’s financial statements is a story that runs counter to its optimistic profit projections: The company is generating less rjevenue from each new smartphone subscriber. Calculations by the Associated Press, based on ATT’s public statements, indicate that the average monthly bill for its smartphone subscribers has fallen from $88 to [...]
     
  • The Larry Brown era at SMU begins

    DALLAS (AP) Larry Brown has returned to college coaching. Brown was formally introduced Monday as the men’s basketball coach at SMU, his first college job in nearly a quarter century. The 71-year-old Hall of Famer joked about his age and said he looked forward to coaching ”quality basketball with quality student-athletes” at a school that [...]
     
  • Durable U.S. Recovery at Hand as Growth Drivers Shift: Economy

    Almost three years after it began, the U.S. recovery may strengthen as autos and housing begin to reemerge as mainstays of growth. “The traditional engines that tend to give you a recovery are kicking in now,” Joseph Carson, director of global economic research at AllianceBernstein LP in New York, said in an interview. “We’re seeing [...]
     
  • Hamlin holds off Truex to win at Kansas Speedway

    KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) It seemed as if Denny Hamlin was out for a Sunday afternoon drive at Kansas Speedway, hanging around the leaders most of the day but never really giving anybody too much reason to worry. Turned out that Hamlin was playing possum, just as he did at Phoenix earlier this year. His [...]
     
  • Curtis has emotional win at Texas Open

    Six years later, Kent resident and former Kent State University standout Ben Curtis is a PGA Tour champion again. His victory Sunday in the Texas Open didn’t come easy. Neither did his words describing the redemption of nearly a decade spent falling from British Open champion to, this year, waiting by the phone simply for [...]
     
  • Jonathan Frid, actor in "Dark Shadows", dies at 87

    TORONTO (AP) — Jonathan Frid, a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera “Dark Shadows”, has died. He was 87. Frid died Friday of natural causes in a hospital in his home town of Hamilton, Ontario, said Jim Pierson, a friend and spokesman for Dan Curtis Productions, [...]
     
  • Charles Colson dies at 80; Watergate felon and prison reformer

    WASHINGTON — Watergate felon and prison reformer Charles W. Colson, who died Saturday at age 80 in northern Virginia, was two people. He was Richard Nixon’s “hatchet man,” the president’s “evil genius,” who by his own admission was “ruthless in getting things done” in the Watergate years, when the things that he and others in [...]
     
  • Gas Price Falls to 10-Year Low; Corn Gains: Commodities at Close

    The Standard Poor’s GSCI gauge of 24 commodities rose 0.5 percent to 675.71 at 6:10 p.m. Singapore time. The UBS Bloomberg CMCI index of 26 raw materials climbed 0.4 percent to 1,562.482. CRUDE OIL Oil rose for the first time in three days in New York, paring this week’s decline, after German business confidence unexpectedly [...]
     
  • Men at Work musician Greg Ham found dead

    SYDNEY (AP) — Greg Ham, a member of the Australian band Men at Work whose saxophone and flute punctuated its smash 1980s hits, was found dead in his Melbourne home on Thursday. Police said the death did not appear to be suspicious, though the cause was not immediately known. A friend who found Ham’s body [...]
     
  • After a Series of Concussions, Forced to Retire at 22

    Four years later, Deitchler looks about the same as the 18-year-old on the wall, though perhaps a little more muscular. He coaches grade-school wrestlers now, and when they kicked a soccer ball to warm up, Deitchler jumped in enthusiastically — at least until the ball caromed near his head. Then Deitchler had to remember to [...]
     
  • Bells honor their own at Hall of Fame event

    The crowd of more than 200 stood as one when Gary Cunningham’s name was announced for induction into the Bellarmine College Preparatory Athletic Hall of Fame. The standing ovation for the longtime baseball coach was just one of the night’s many emotional moments when Bellarmine hosted its 42nd annual induction ceremony with a dinner and [...]
     
  • Summitt steps aside at Tennessee after 38 seasons

    The time Tennessee Lady Vols and women’s basketball fans have dreaded for months finally has arrived. Pat Summitt is stepping aside as Tennessee’s head coach after 38 seasons, the last an emotionally draining farewell tour for the woman who won more games than anyone else in NCAA college basketball history. “I’ve loved being the head [...]
     
  • At 24, he hadn’t long to live … so they got married

    Ryan Smith loved golf, airplanes, cooking, good wine, good beer and the Oregon Ducks. But more than anything else, he loved Bethany. He met Bethany Schmidt in 2005 when they were both freshmen at the University of Oregon. They became inseparable — eating out together, visiting their families together, traveling to Europe together, cheering together [...]
     
  • AT&T’s Watson Brings Voice Control to Your Favorite Apps [VIDEO]

    In the Star Trek universe, the tricorder is a handheld device used by Kirk, Spock, and various red-shirted crew members to make detailed scans of unfamiliar planets and even less familiar life-forms. It can be used in sick bay to diagnose intergalactic patients, and in engineering to find which part of the warp core is …
     
  • ‘Unreasonable At Sea’: Contest For Tech Social Entrepreneurs To Travel, Save The World!

    Winning this contest is possibly the only time you’ll have reasonable license to sing, “I’m on a boat, [expletive]. Everybody look at me!” The Unreasonable Institute has announced “Unreasonable At Sea,” a contest that will choose 10 tech companies that are working to solve major global challenges. Winners will travel to 14 countries by boat [...]
     

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