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Netflix cuts original TV deal with DreamWorks
By RYAN NAKASHIMAAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Netflix announced a deal on Monday to air television programming from Dreamworks Animation in what the company described as its biggest transaction ever for original first-run content. Though financial details were not disclosed, Netflix Inc. said the agreement includes more than 300 hours of new TV episodes in a multi-year deal starting ...
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U.S. Europe agree to start talks on free-trade accord
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- The European Union and the United States will open negotiations next month on a long-sought deal to create free trade between the world's two mightiest economic regions -- an effort that could create millions of jobs but that could also take years to transform from dream to reality. U.S. and EU leaders announced the plans Monday while in Northern Ireland ...
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Federal officials to monitor election in Evergreen
EVERGREEN, Ala. (AP) -- Federal officials have announced they'll be monitoring a municipal election in Evergreen to ensure voting practices are in compliance with the Voting Rights ...
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2 Naval Academy grads killed in Alabama crash
Alabama State Troopers say 25-year-old Patrick Hunt Drury of Meridian, Miss., and 25-year-old Christopher McArthur of Toomsuba, Miss., were killed early Sunday near York in Sumter County. Naval Academy officials confirmed to The Capital of Annapolis that Drury and McArthur were ...
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New Alabama Medicaid districts unveiled
The Legislature earlier this year approved a reorganization of Medicaid into districts around the state. Acting Medicaid Director State Health Officer Don Williamson says it was difficult to decide how to divide the counties, and added that some counties could be shifted before the map is finalized Oct. ...
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G8 exposes rift among leaders on Syria
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's ...
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Texas SD governors court Conn. gun makers
HARTFORD, Conn. -; The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary ...
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Chicagos next US attorney faces urgent dilemma
CHICAGO -- Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city.Should he zero in on Illinois' deep pool of political corruption with the resolve of his predecessor, who sent two governors to prison? Or should he devote even more resources to the gang- and drug-related violence that has claimed hundreds of lives?The ...
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Barons Thompson named Southern League Hitter of the Week
Birmingham Barons outfielder Trayce Thompson is the Southern League Hitter of the Week. The No. 2 prospect in the Chicago White Sox organization hit .435 with three home runs and nine RBI in six games. Thompson helped the Barons four of their six games. Thompson is tied for the team lead with eight home runs this season. Birmingham won the first half title in the Southern League North with a ...
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EU US agree to start free trade talks at G-8
Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. The visit takes place before leaders from the G-8 nations are to gather to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, and free-trade issues. (AP Photo/Evan ...
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Putin US-Russia positions on Syria dont coincide
View Photo Associated Press/Evan Vucci - President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in ...
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Report Slowdown in health care costs to continue
WASHINGTON - There's good news for most companies that provide health benefits for their employees: America's slowdown in medical costs may be turning into a trend, rather than a mere pause.A report Tuesday from accounting and consulting giant PwC projects lower overall growth in medical costs for next year, even as the economy gains strength and millions of uninsured people receive ...
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Google settles shareholder lawsuit clears way for stock split
The settlement came on the eve of a scheduled Delaware chancery court trial that threatened to cast an unflattering light on Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey ...
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Community Action to schedule cooling assistance appointments
Community Action of Etowah County will begin scheduling appointments for its Regular Cooling and Crisis Cooling assistance programs at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Applicants of households that cool with electric power are ...
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Military women moving into jobs closer to combat
Investigators are getting closer to pinpointing where Colorado's most destructive wildfire started and that should help allow residents of the area hit hardest by the blaze to temporarily return ...
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Oil posts small loss after hitting high for year
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The price of oil fell slightly after it climbed to a high for the year Monday, as the market waits to see the results of this week's Federal Reserve policy meeting. Benchmark oil for July delivery fell 8 cents to finish at $97.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, crude rose to $98.74, the highest level since mid-September. ...
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Rowhanis path of moderation also shows limits
a "path of moderation," the easing of nuclear tensions and steps to narrow the huge divide with the United States. He also make clear where he won't go, saying he opposes any halt to uranium enrichment, at the heart of the nuclear standoff. (AP Photo/Ebrahim ...
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Indiana woman condemned for killing at 15 is freed
was 15 after stabbing a 78-year-old Bible school teacher 33 times during a 1985 robbery in Gary, Ind. A Department of Correction spokesman says Cooper, now 43, was released from an Indiana prison Monday, June 17, 2013. A state court overturned her death sentence in 1988. (AP Photo/Lake County Police Depatmrnt via The Indianapolis ...
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US wont sweeten nuke offer for Irans next leader
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration won't welcome the election of a relative moderate as Iran's next president with any new nuclear offer. A State Department spokeswoman says it's up to Tehran to ...
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More anti-government protests occur in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria -; Bulgaria's prime minister said Monday that Parliament's appointment of a media mogul as the nation's security chief was a mistake, but that his government will not resign over ...
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McCain presses Obama on secret emails
WASHINGTON -; Republican Sen. John McCain is questioning President Barack Obama about political appointees' use of secret government email accounts to conduct official ...
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Fyffe man sentenced to life without parole
A Fyffe man on Friday was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to a news release from Cherokee County Sheriff Jeff ...
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Guardian Snowden wont return voluntarily to US
View Photo Associated Press/The Guardian, File - FILE - This June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security ...
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US sees nothing new in NKorea talks offer
The price of a gallon of gas in Massachusetts has crept up by a penny in the past week yet remains well below the national average. AAA Southern New England reports Monday that self-serve, regular climbed ...
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Man arrested in Tuscaloosa credit union holdup
Officers arrested 23-year-old Keondrae Devon Long of Tuscaloosa early Monday. He is charged with robbery and receiving stolen property from a previous ...
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Tuscaloosa bypass remains contentious
The $250 million interstate bypass to the east of Tuscaloosa is moving ahead with infinite lethargy and recently became bogged down in further delays, which were made necessary in part by the fact that the project had become delayed and certain aspects of it were out of date.
It was decided by the city of Tuscaloosa in 1989 that they needed a bypass to the east to relieve some of the traffic on U.S. Highway 43 and U.S. Highway 82, both of which were reaching their carrying capacity and creating massive backlogs and congestion on Woolsey Finnell Bridge, which crosses the Black Warrior River. Read more
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