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  • Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For the...

  • The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    App Store Official Charts for the week ending May 20, 2013: Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. A Beautiful Mess (Red Velvet Art LLC) 2. Heads Up! (Warner Bros.) 3. WhatsApp Messenger (WhatsApp Inc.) 4. Minecraft - Pocket Edition (Mojang) 5. Survivalcraft (Igor Kalicinski) 6. Plague Inc. (Ndemic...

  • BC-US--Games-Xbox,8th Ld-Writethru, US

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For the...

  • The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    App Store Official Charts for the week ending May 20, 2013: Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. A Beautiful Mess (Red Velvet Art LLC) 2. Heads Up! (Warner Bros.) 3. WhatsApp Messenger (WhatsApp Inc.) 4. Minecraft - Pocket Edition (Mojang) 5. Survivalcraft (Igor Kalicinski) 6. Plague Inc. (Ndemic...

  • More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts: Q. Is global warming to blame? A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global warming increases....

  • Ex-library official indicted in bribery scheme

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    DETROIT (AP) — The ex-technology chief for Detroit's public libraries and two former business contractors are charged in a $1.4 million bribe and kickback scheme. The U.S. Justice Department announced the indictments Tuesday. Forty-six-year-old Timothy Cromer was the library system's chief...

  • Nat'l group praises Hawaii cellphone driving law

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    HONOLULU (AP) — A national nonprofit is cheering Hawaii's new law that prohibits people from holding cellphones and other portable electronics while driving. Jonathan Adkins from the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington says Hawaii's law is tougher than laws in most other...

  • Illinois Senate overrides 'Smart Grid' veto

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Senate has again approved a plan to address so-called Smart Grid technology over the objection of Gov. Pat Quinn. Senators voted 44-11 Tuesday to override Quinn's veto earlier this month. Quinn claimed the bill undermined oversight and would force automatic rate...

  • Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild — from an acupuncturist. Dexter and Fletcher Moon, juvenile Kemp's Ridley sea turtles, remained calm...

  • Man convicted of using secret GPS to stalk ex-wife

    Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

    WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) — A southern New Jersey man accused of using a secretly installed GPS unit to track his ex-wife's travel has been found guilty of stalking. A Gloucester County jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting Paul Prince on Tuesday. The 48-year-old Mullica Hill...