Pepsi’s new soda amps up competition NEW YORK — Pepsi is hoping to win back soda drinkers with a compromise. Some people don’t like the calories in regular soda, but loathe the taste of zero-calorie diet drinks. So the nation’s No....
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by CANDICE CHOI Associated PressAssociated Press
Cyber-security researcher finds flaw in smartphones WASHINGTON — Just as U.S. companies are coming to grips with threats to their computer networks emanating from cyber-spies based in China, a noted expert is highlighting what he says is an even mor...
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By Ken Dilanian McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceThe Paducah Sun
Jobs Lead plant environmental engineer — Need a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, chemical engineering or other related tech field, plus five years’ experience. Job order: KY0446888 Ind...
Coming soon In another year or two, you’ll be able to take a photo of your check with your smartphone to deposit it into your local bank account. At least, that’s the rough estimation from local bankers. ...
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By Adam Shull ashull@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
Mild winter concerns some maple syrup producers TEMPLE, N.H. — A mild winter across the Northeast is injecting extra uncertainty into maple syrup season, but many producers say they’ll just go with the flow, whenever it starts. Temperatures h...
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by HOLLY RAMER Associated PressAssociated Press
Seeking change in the weather It’s usually snow piling up or ice settling in during the winter that complicates construction projects. This year’s mild winter brought rain instead, just as much of a hindrance for some contra...
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By Adam Shull ashull@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
iPhone user awarded $850 in throttling case SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country's largest telecommunications company...
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by GREG RISLING and PETER SVENSSON Associated PressAssociated Press
Man given choice of Facebook apology or jail CINCINNATI — A man who was threatened with jail time for posting comments about his estranged wife on his personal Facebook page unless he posted daily apologies for a month says the court ruling v...
Gomes’ actions depicted in ‘Casino’ ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Dennis Gomes, co-owner of the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City and a former mob-busting Las Vegas prosecutor whose exploits were chronicled in the movie “Casino,” died Fr...
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by WAYNE PARRY Associated PressAssociated Press
Nike’s outer space shoe causes frenzy Sneaker fanatics who lined up outside stores overnight got their first crack Friday at a new outer-space themed Nike basketball shoe, getting so unruly in some cities that police were called to res...
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by JESSICA GRESKO Associated PressAssociated Press