May 25, 2013
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Report: Virgin America best US airline last year
WASHINGTON — Virgin America did the best job for its customers among leading U.S. airlines last year, a report said Monday, as carriers overall had their second best performance in the more than th...
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Associated Press Elena Baptista (left) serves a meal to her daughter Vania, 12, son Joao, 7, and husband Pedro (partially seen on the right) in their house's kitchen/living room on March 29 in Loures, outside Lisbon. The Baptista family counts itself among the casualties of an unrelenting financial crisis that is squeezing the life out of some European Union economies, including Portugal.
Pain bites into Portuguese life as crisis deepens
LISBON, Portugal — Serving a frugal lunch in their kitchen not much bigger than a bathroom, Pedro and Elena Baptista spoon stewed chicken feet onto their boiled potatoes and leave the slightly meat...
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Earnings reports begin as stocks edge higher
NEW YORK — Investors are having a hard time making up their minds. The stock market extended its longest period of indecision in nearly 15 years Monday. For nearly three weeks, the Dow Jones ind...
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Associated Press Truck driver James Weitze takes a self portrait on the road. Weitze satisfies his video fix with an iPhone.
Broadcasters worry about ‘Zero TV’ homes
LOS ANGELES — Some people have had it with TV. They’ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don’t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They’re tired of $100-plus mont...
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Jobs
From March 27 to Wednesday, the Office of Employment and Training added 91 job orders to its database for regional employers. The first 39 are listed (Paducah unless noted otherwise): two pharmacy ...
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Associated Press A maple tree is illegally tapped in northern Maine on March 12. Thieves are illegally tapping trees across Maine and stealing the sap that runs each spring that's used to make sweet maple syrup. Forest rangers say the illegal tappers are damaging valuable maple trees before they are harvested for lumber.
Sticky-fingered thieves target sap
PORTLAND, Maine — Sticky-fingered thieves are stealing the sap right out of Maine’s maple trees. With little more than a spout-like tap and a bucket, people are looting the liquid out of trees o...
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Internet blossoming into virtual vinyard
The Internet is blossoming into quite the virtual vineyard. Online wine options are everywhere, from flash sale sites like Lot18 offering daily deals to Facebook prodding you to send a little so...
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Greenback acreage
It isn’t just record high prices for corn, soybeans, wheat and other commodities driving the surge in farmland prices in western Kentucky. Buyers in 2013 who have offered $6,000 to $8,000 per ac...
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Judge deals blow to high-tech lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for allegedly forming an illegal cartel ...
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Boeing makes 787 test flight
Boeing said its flight of a 787 on Friday should wrap up the testing for its fix of the battery problems that have kept the plane grounded. Boeing called the flight “the final certification test fo...
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