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Sun files John Maness, left, and Lee Warmath, who work for Drywall Systems Plus of Murray, screw together a light fixture in the new CFSB headquarters in Benton in August. For large projects underway, such as the bank's new headquarters in Marshall County, a mild winter allowed some workers to stay on jobs through January and February.
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...
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Region Briefs
Kentucky appeals court upholds 1998 tobacco deal LOUISVILLE — A three-judge federal appeals panel in Kentucky has turned away a challenge from a defunct cigarette maker to a landmark 1998 nation...
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Budget hit list includes closing supermax
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — In what he called “a rendezvous with reality,” Gov. Pat Quinn made clear Wednesday that he fears Illinois is on the verge of a financial meltdown because of pension systems eati...
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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FDA panel backs previously rejected obesity pill
By MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press SILVER SPRING, Md. — A previously rejected weight loss pill won an overwhelming endorsement from public health advisers Wednesday, raising hopes that the d...
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rising sales point to better year for housing
By DEREK KRAVITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON — The housing market is flashing signs of health ahead of the spring-buying season. Sales of previously occupied homes are at their highest lev...
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Ford introduces a 2013 Ford Focus ST during the media preview of the Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place in Chicago. If you're shopping for a car today, you're less likely to end up with a lemon.
Factory lemons are unlikely now
DETROIT — Car shoppers today are less likely to end up with a lemon. In the past five years, global competition has forced automakers to improve the quality and reliability of their vehicles — e...
Feb 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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