Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard's latest quarterly results will show how badly the deteriorating personal computer market damaged the company while CEO Meg Whitman tries to expand into more profitable areas of technology. WHAT TO LOOK FOR: It's a foregone conclusion that the results, due...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology visiting scientist from Japan has been killed while riding her bicycle in Boston. Police say a bicyclist was struck at Beacon Street and Charlesgate West at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The cyclist, identified by MIT as 36-year-old Kanako...

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Rhode Island and Massachusetts at 5:30 a.m. The breaking news staffer is Mark Pratt. The New England news editor is Cara Rubinsky. To reach the AP bureau in Boston, call 617-357-8100 or 1-800-882-1407. To reach the photo department, call 617-357-8106. AP stories, along with the photos that...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The charitable arm of the New York Bar Association is making a $300,000 grant to fund a program that helps disabled veterans start businesses and another that supports research in technology, innovation and competition law. The New York Bar Foundation says the grant is the...

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MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway. As the federal government...

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The Carolinas News Editor is Tim Rogers. The breaking news supervisor is Emery Dalesio, who can be reached at 919-510-8937. For technical support, please call the AP's Services and Technology Department in Raleigh at 919-881-9974. CHARLOTTE-EAT-INS CHARLOTTE — In the spring of 1963, a...

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Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday. Jacob Dismont, 18, and Michael Solid, 21, were booked Saturday into the Clark County jail on charges of open murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. According to investigators,...

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A nonnative snail has turned up in the Truckee River in Nevada for the first time, and wildlife officials are hoping it doesn't harm the river's trout population or spread to Lake Tahoe. Nevada Department of Wildlife officials said tests have confirmed the presence of at...

Updated: 10 hr ago

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