NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the best film of the year.The board is the second notable group to name "Zero Dark Thirty" best film, following the New York Film Critics Circle. The two early awards suggest the film may be the Academy Awards frontrunner, four years after...
ICC lets ComEd delay smart meters until 2015
Label: Business The Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday approved ComEd's request to delay the installation of smart meters until 2015...
Dec
04
Judge: Mooseheart players from Sudan can suit up for now
Label: World A west suburban high school accepted four students from Sudan...
Intel sells debt, shares jump on stock buyback hopes
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp shares jumped more than 2 percent on Tuesday as the top chipmaker sold $6 billion in bonds to fund stock buybacks and other business activities. Intel sold the bonds in a range of maturities from five years to 30 years, according to IFR, a Thomson Reuters unit. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker said in a filing it plans to use...
Auburn hires ex-assistant Malzahn as head coach
Label: SportsAUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn has turned to Gus Malzahn to restore a program that made an unprecedented fall two years after winning a national title with Cam Newton operating his high-powered offense to perfection.The school announced that it will introduce the former Arkansas State coach in a news conference Tuesday night.Malzahn was the Tigers' offensive coordinator during their 2010 national championship...
Disney, Netflix sign exclusive TV distribution deal
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co agreed to give Netflix exclusive TV distribution rights to its movies, becoming the first major studio to stream its movies to TV viewers via Netflix instead of distributing them to HBO, Showtime or other premium TV channels.The agreement begins in 2016, after Disney‘s current deal with Liberty Media’s pay-TV channel Starz expires.The deal gives Netflix streaming rights...
CDC says US flu season starts early, could be bad
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Flu season in the U.S. is off to its earliest start in nearly a decade — and it could be a bad one.Health officials on Monday said suspected flu cases have jumped in five Southern states, and the primary strain circulating tends to make people sicker than other types. It is particularly hard on the elderly."It looks like it's shaping up to be a bad flu season, but only time will tell,"...
Huston's "Infrared" wins Bad Sex fiction prize
Label: EntertainmentLONDON (AP) — It's the prize no author wants to win.Award-winning novelist Nancy Huston won Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her novel "Infrared," whose tale of a photographer who takes pictures of her lovers during sex proved too revealing for the judges.The choice was announced by "Downton Abbey" actress Samantha Bond during a ceremony at the Naval & Military Club in London.Judges...
United Dreamliner makes emergency landing in New Orleans
Label: Business A brand-new United Airlines "Dreamliner" airplane bound for Newark was diverted Tuesday morning, making an emergency landing...
Dec
03
Daley nephew indicted in '04 death of David Koschman
Label: World A special Cook County grand jury indicted former Mayor Richard Daley's nephew on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the...
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