LONDON (Reuters) – It may lack the noisy camaraderie of a trip to the bingo hall, but the online version of the numbers game has proved more profitable for Britain‘s Rank Group than the original.The merits of the online business were further emphasized when Rank said a snowy January had cost it 3 million pounds ($ 4.7 million) in revenue as Britons opted not to venture out to its bingo halls and casinos.Operating...
Jan
30
$11K reward offered in slaying of girl 'destined for great things'
Label: World With outrage over his daughter's death spreading from City Hall to the White House, Nathaniel Pendleton made a public plea Wednesday...
Final cut: The gems and stars left off the Oscars list
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – If I could remove any word from Oscar conversations, it would be “snubbed.” It’s catchy and makes good headline fodder, but it implies that a cabal of Academy members sat in a room and consciously decided to ostracize this actor or that moviemaker. These ballots are filled out by 6,000 to 7,000 voters, ranging from visual effects experts to screenwriters to studio chiefs. I can’t envision...
During Trial, New Details Emerge on DuPuy Hip
Label: HealthWhen Johnson & Johnson announced the appointment in 2011 of an executive to head the troubled orthopedics division whose badly flawed artificial hip had been recalled, the company billed the move as a fresh start. But that same executive, it turns out, had supervised the implant’s introduction in the United States and had been told by a top company consultant three years before the device...
BlackBerry 10 launches after long wait
Label: Business Research In Motion Ltd unveiled the long-delayed line of smartphones it hopes will put it on the comeback trail on Wednesday...
Rape trial of teenaged football players to be open to public: Ohio judge
Label: Technology(Reuters) – The controversial trial of two high school football players accused of raping a classmate will remain open to the public and will not be relocated to another town, an Ohio judge ruled on Wednesday.Prosecutors and an attorney representing the accuser had sought a closed trial, arguing that public access to the juvenile trial would subject the accuser to unwanted publicity and make potential...
Jan
29
Teen girl killed, boy wounded in shooting near high school
Label: World After taking their exams, Hadiya Pendleton and a group of others decided to hang out at a park on Tuesday just blocks away from...
Justin Timberlake’s new album ’20/20′ is due out in March
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – Singer-turned-actor Justin Timberlake has set a March date for his comeback album – his first in more than six years.RCA Records said on Tuesday “The 20/20 Experience,” the former N’Sync boy band member’s follow-up to 2006′s “FutureSex/LoveSounds” and only his third album ever, would be released on March 19.In recent years, Timberlake, 31, has focused more on films and business ventures...
Report Links Rodriguez and Others to Clinic and P.E.D.’s
Label: HealthInvestigators for Major League Baseball created an improvised war room in the commissioner’s Park Avenue offices in Manhattan in recent months, mapping out potential evidence that would tie an anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., to the possible use of performance-enhancing drugs by some of baseball’s more prominent players. But because the investigators cannot compel witnesses...
Chicago home price recovery lags
Label: Business The Chicago area's housing recovery continued to lag that of other cities and the nation, as prices in November fell 1.3 percent...
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