Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A proposal to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped. The House had approved the measure. But Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, ran into concerns in the Senate that he said Wednesday can't be worked out before the...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law Wednesday what he said is the first-in-the-nation measure aimed at protecting Vermont companies from so-called patent trolling, the predatory or deceptive claims of patent infringement that can often lead to costly litigation or...

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In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab. In the case...

Updated: 6 min ago

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state Education Department 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...

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___ Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — 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,...

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VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor. In a...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A proposal that would effectively ban Internet cafes targeted as illegal gambling operations cleared the Ohio Legislature on Wednesday after more than two years of wrangling. The Ohio Senate passed the measure on 27-6 vote, less than a year after blocking passage of a...

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HONOLULU (AP) — University of Hawaii researchers are using new technologies to study shark behavior. Carl Meyer with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology says he's tagged more than a thousand sharks in the last 20 years. Meyer says advances in technology, including the use of shark cams, is...

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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: May 22 Boston Herald on the Oklahoma tornado: This nation has been pinballing from one tragedy to another over the past half-year, and at times it seems we are simply incapable of absorbing more grief. From the...

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It's the ultimate in a paperless future - a scanner that reproduces digitally. Japan's technology giant, Fujitsu, has been showcasing their vision of the future in Tokyo. (May 22) [Notes:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY] [Notes:Tokyo, Japan - 14 May 2013] IT'S BEING DUBBED THE NEXT-GENERATION...