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  • Dreamworks strikes TV show deal in Germany

    06/18/13 01:31 PM

    Dreamworks Animation, the studio that is home to Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar, is making its way to Germany television under a deal with a children's television operator. Dreamworks and Super RTL announced a five-year television agreement Tuesday under which they will provide animated...

  • Vt. and Quebec announce electric car corridor

    06/18/13 01:16 PM

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Starting this fall, people who drive electric vehicles should be able to travel the 138-mile route between Burlington and Montreal without worrying they'll run short of a charge thanks to a planned electric vehicle charging corridor, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Quebec...

  • Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks

    06/18/13 01:16 PM

    The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify. UNITED STATES 1. Grouplove, "Ways to Go"...

  • Nebraska habitat estimate cut for endangered bug

    06/18/13 01:01 PM

    LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal agency has proposed a nearly 50 percent cut in the Nebraska land the agency says is needed to support the endangered Salt Creek tiger beetle. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service earlier this month published a proposal in the Federal Register to designate 1,110...

  • Spotify's Top 10 most streamed tracks

    06/18/13 12:47 PM

    The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16: UNITED STATES 1. Robin Thicke, "Blurred Lines" (Star Trak LLC) 2. Imagine Dragons, "Radioactive" (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records) 3. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton, "Can't...

  • Kabel Deutschland shares rise on takeover interest

    06/18/13 10:46 AM

    BERLIN (AP) — Shares in Germany's biggest cable operator are up after Kabel Deutschland received a preliminary takeover proposal from U.S. firm Liberty Global. Kabel Deutschland confirmed Liberty Global PLC's approach Tuesday, only days after British rival Vodafone PLC said it was also in...

  • Recent Kansas editorials

    06/18/13 09:31 AM

    The Wichita Eagle, June 16 Failure to deliver at DMV Renewing a driver's license shouldn't take multiple attempts and a wait of three, four or five hours. That it does for many people in the Wichita area these days is a failure to deliver one of the most basic of government services. And the...

  • 3 state biologists get rescue awards

    06/18/13 06:15 AM

    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Three state biologists are being honored for their work rescuing threatened and endangered species. Department of Game and Fish herpetologist Charlie Painter, fisheries manager Kirk Patten and recently retired Gila Trout Recovery Coordinator David Propst received the...

  • New technology saves TWRA money in trapping hogs

    06/18/13 04:45 AM

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — How many wildlife agents does it take to catch a wild hog? One, under a new remote system in use by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Richard Kirk of TWRA said the new method alerts an on-call agent, who can watch feral hogs in real time and spring the trap by...

  • UMass Lowell team wins NASA robotics contest

    06/18/13 04:15 AM

    LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A robot that students from University of Massachusetts-Lowell designed has won a NASA contest. School officials say the team designed a robot that they operated with a remote control to test its durability and precision on a terrain that mimicked another planet's surface....


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