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DANBURY -- A jury on Wednesday convicted a Danbury woman of "coaching" her stepchildren to lie to authorities about being sexually abused by their mother., was convicted of two counts of risk of injury to a minor and one count of interfering with the duties of a police officer for lying to investigators about her conversations with the children, prosecutors said. DaSilva had previously pleaded not...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A proposal to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped., D-Baton Rouge, ran into concerns in the Senate that he said Wednesday can't be worked out before the session ends June 6. The bill, which passed the House 87-0, was voluntarily deferred without a hearing before theJames' bill would prohibit employers and public scho...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was aided by a rising stock market, according to an analysis byCEO pay, which fell two years straight during the Great Recession but rose 24 percent in 2010 and 6 percent in 2011, has never been higher.WASHINGTON ...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind biodegradable airway made by Michigan doctors using plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer.Photo: Mark StahlKaiba Gionfriddo plays with his mother, April outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tue...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
analysis of the latest standardized test results for public school students in grades three through eight shows the state continues to make incremental overall improvement with a long way to go.The number of students performing at grade level in math, science, English and social studies on the spring tests nudged up to 69 percent from 68 percent in 2012. It marks a 9 percent improvement, but more ...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s latest quarterly report showed the company's earnings are holding up better than management and analysts anticipated, even as the world's largest personal computer maker struggled to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.RELIEF RALLY: After the fiscal second-quarter results came out late Wednesday, HP's stock soared by more than 13 perce...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
aimed at balancing public-document requirements of the Freedom of Information Act with the desire to keep private grisly photos from theBut civil libertarians oppose the legislation, which was approaching a vote on Wednesday night.The bill, a draft of which was released by the governor's office late Wednesday afternoon, is crafted to suppress the crime-scene photos and 911 recordings of the Decemb...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
"Jenny from the Block" wants the block to buy Verizon phones from her.on Wednesday announced she's opening a chain of 15 cellphone stores and a website under the Viva Movil brand. The aim is to sell Verizon phones and services to Latinos.The first store will open in New York on June 15, with others following in Los Angeles and Miami. The stores will have bilingual staff and provide a "culturally r...
Source : News Times | 2 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
splash page for the Internet social media giant Facebook is shown in this photo taken on Feb 25, 2013 in Washington, DC. Facebook on May 22, 2013, became a full member of the Global Network Initiative, a non-governmental organisation promoting Internet freedom and privacy rights. -- FILE PHOTO: AFPWASHINGTON (AFP) - Facebook on Wednesday became a full member of the Global Network Initiative (GNI),...
Source : Straits Times | 3 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
PARIS (AFP) - Scientists unveiled a concept vaccine against flu on Wednesday they said may protect against various strains with a single jab.Tested in ferrets, considered good human models, the synthetic vaccine uses nanotechnology to attack parts of the influenza virus that different strains have in common, they wrote in the journal Nature."It provides a basis for development of universal influen...
Source : Straits Times | 3 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
Twitter logo is displayed at the entrance of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco in this March 11, 2011 file photo in California. Twitter unveiled technology to boost security for its users, following a spate of attacks on accounts of prominent media outlets including the Associated Press, the Financial Times and The Onion. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP(REUTERS) - Twitter Inc unveiled technology to boost s...
Source : Straits Times | 3 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
the days leading up to Samsung’s unveiling of the highly-anticipated Galaxy S4, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller has gone on the defensive. In an, Schiller cited numbers from a ChangeWave survey which found 75 percent of all iPhone users reported being “very satisfied” with their phones.changed their splash page to brag about their eighth – then ninth straight – c...
Source : Red Orbit | 3 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Science N Technology
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