Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a series where cameras go into small...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

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...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

HERNDON, Va. (AP) — A subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. is expanding in Fairfax County and expects to provide 500 new jobs. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday that Amazon Web Services plans to open an office in the Herndon area. Amazon Web Services provides cloud computing services...

Updated: 10 min ago

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N.'s atomic agency says Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons. An International Atomic Energy Agency report says Tehran has installed close to 700 high-tech centrifuges in an upgrade of its uranium enrichment program...

Updated: 25 min ago

Rapid City Journal, Rapid City, May 19, 2013 What was going on at the library? For the second time in three months, the Rapid City Public Library is reviewing its security policy. On Monday, the library's Board of Trustees voted to add a police liaison officer. After a Feb. 21 shooting of a...

Updated: 41 min ago

US State Dept. report notes increase in anti-Semitism; special envoy named WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Ira Forman,...