NEW YORK (AP) — Five months after undergoing a bone marrow transplant, Robin Roberts is back on television in the morning.Roberts said Wednesday she'd been waiting 174 days "to say this, good morning America."The morning-show host is recovering from MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease. She looked thin with close-cropped hair but was smiling broadly, back at work on "Good Morning America" at ABC's...
Office Depot to buy OfficeMax
Label: Business Office Depot Inc. said on Wednesday that it would buy smaller rival OfficeMax Inc. for $1.17 billion in stock to get more clout...
Feb
19
Weather cited in Antioch crash that killed 2 teens
Label: World Two teens were killed after the vehicle they were traveling in left Wilmot Road in Antioch and struck a tree, police say. ...
Burger King takes down Twitter account after hack attack
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (Reuters) - Hackers breached the Twitter account of fast-food chain Burger King, posting the online equivalent of graffiti and sometimes making little sense. Burger King Worldwide Inc suspended its Twitter account about an hour after it learned of the attack at 12:24 p.m. EST on Monday, company spokesman Bryson Thornton said in an email. "It has come to our attention...
Pistorius says no intentions to kill girlfriend
Label: SportsPRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom Tuesday that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.The double amputee said in an affidavit read by his lawyer at his bail hearing that he felt vulnerable because he did not have on his prosthetic legs when he pumped bullets into the locked bathroom door....
Hip implants a bit more likely to fail in women
Label: HealthCHICAGO (AP) — Hip replacements are slightly more likely to fail in women than in men, according to one of the largest studies of its kind in U.S. patients. The risk of the implants failing is low, but women were 29 percent more likely than men to need a repeat surgery within the first three years.The message for women considering hip replacement surgery remains unclear. It's not known which models...
Alec Baldwin, NY Post photog file harass claims
Label: EntertainmentNEW YORK (AP) — New York City police are investigating harassment complaints made by actor Alec Baldwin and a New York Post photographer after an altercation.According to police, photographer G.N. Miller says the former "30 Rock" star yelled racial epithets and other insults when he was trying to take pictures of the actor outside his Manhattan apartment. Baldwin maintains he hollered at the photographer,...
Second major hotel planned for McCormick area
Label: Business The agency that owns McCormick Place announced Tuesday it will build a second hotel near the convention center complex, with...
Feb
18
2 questioned in fatal shooting of Chicago teen
Label: WorldJanay McFarlane, 18, was shot on the way to a store, the same day Obama spoke on gun violence. Two people are being questioned...
Sony cuts price of Vita handheld games console in Japan
Label: TechnologyTOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp on Monday slashed the price of its struggling Vita handheld games console in Japan in a bid to spur sales of the device as gamers switch to free or cheap games played on tablet computers and smartphones. The maker of Playstation consoles trimmed the price of its 3G Wifi version by 10,000 yen ($110) to 19,980 yen, with all other models also reduced, it said...
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