Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

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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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FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A bright light seen traveling across the sky over the weekend by dozens of witnesses across Maryland and the region is what astronomers are calling a fragmenting meteoric fireball. The Frederick News-Post (http://bit.ly/18ibFNM ) of Maryland reports witnesses saw the...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released Wednesday says it has failed to fully test a new $484 million computer system scheduled to begin processing Medicaid claims on July 1. The report issued by the office of State Auditor Beth...

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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Will gamers want One? After four years of development, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One entertainment console and touted it as an all-in-one solution for playing games, watching TV and doing everything in between. Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be central to your living...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. The unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut of Nintendo's Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4...

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont attorney general's office is suing a business, accusing it of "patent trolling." The lawsuit filed Wednesday says MPHJ Technology, based in Wilmington, Del., and its 40 shell subsidiary companies operating in Vermont, say they have a patent on the process of...