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Duke Energy to foot $85M more in coal-gas plant's costs

TheRepublic.com 

INDIANAPOLIS - Duke Energy has agreed to foot another $85 million in costs associated with its problem-plagued Indiana coal-gasification plant under a settlement with the state's utility consumer counselor and large industrial customers.



Maïmouna Guerresi’s Mystical Portraiture

The New Yorker 

The bodies of the people Maïmouna Guerresi photographs—usually friends and family, shot against a wall outside her house in Dakar, Senegal—seem to extend beyond their physical boundaries. Her subjects are shot in costumes that Guerresi constructs herself, often using textiles collected from her travels in Africa and Asia. The outfits are sculptural, almost architectural, creations that fuse the face and limbs of the subject with the space and air around them. Some figures appear to levitate; others seem bodiless... Читать дальше...

U.S. Appeals Court Reverses Dismissal of Hip Hop Duo’s Gang Label Case

Yahoo Music 

The two members of the group and four fans alleged that their constitutional rights were violated because they were identified as a criminal gang, and they sued the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation in a federal court in Michigan. The FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released a congressionally mandated report in 2011 that identified Juggalos as a “hybrid gang” and included information about their criminal activity, according to a court document.

Nursing home company fires CEO days after FBI searches

TheRepublic.com 

INDIANAPOLIS - A company that operates dozens of nursing homes across Indiana fired its top executive on Friday, three days after federal agents searched his home and the company's headquarters.

Man accused of killing wife after eating pot pleads insanity

TheRepublic.com 

DENVER - A Denver man accused of eating marijuana-infused candy he bought at a legal pot shop and then killing his wife while she described her husband's erratic behavior on a 911 call has changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.

Retirement Weekly: Retirement news: The week in review

MarketWatch.com 

In an update to its December 2013 analysis of retirement-age defined contribution plan participant distribution decisions, Vanguard found more than two-thirds of participants take steps to preserve assets, and nine in 10 plan dollars are preserved for retirement.

Bellevue’s state Sen. Cyrus Habib announces run for lieutenant governor

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

State Sen. Cyrus Habib, D-Bellevue, lost his eyesight to cancer at the age of 8 but went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law School graduate, intellectual property lawyer at Perkins Coie, and state legislator from the Eastside. Habib announced Friday that he is running for lieutenant governor. Incumbent Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, a conservative Democrat, has not announced whether he will seek another term. The state has had just three lieutenant governors in the past 60 years. John Cherberg, a Democrat... Читать дальше...

Uefa rejects Croatia's swastika appeal

Goal.com 

The European governing body has decided to maintain their decision to remove a point from Croatia's qualifying campaign after finding their fans guilty of racism

Board of Regents prioritizes KU science in budget request

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents approved its budget request for the next legislative session on Thursday, placing at the top of its list of priorities a request for state lawmakers to provide more than $10 million in funding to build new science facilities at the University of Kansas. Other top priorities for fiscal year 2017, which ends in July 2017, are $2 million to establish a department of chemical and materials engineering at Wichita State University, $3.4 million for merit-based raises... Читать дальше...

Study shows brain disease in deceased NFL players

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The evidence that football causes brain disease is overwhelming, a new study of former NFL players has found. All but four of the 91 former players whose brain tissue was studied by leading brain researchers tested positive for the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which can lead to memory loss, depression and dementia. The findings from Boston University and the Department of Veteran Affairs study, which were aired in a recent Public Broadcasting Service television documentary... Читать дальше...





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