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Conference to focus on West Virginia flood recovery efforts

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Marshall says there will be four panels of speakers from government, business, higher education and nonprofit groups. [...] expected to attend are Tom Wooten, who wrote a book on the rebuilding of New Orleans neighborhoods following Hurricane Katrina; and Steve Eddy, the former city manager of Moore, Oklahoma, where a 2013 tornado killed 24 people.

Little Big Town's Kimberly Schlapman adopts a baby girl

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The 47-year-old country singer posted a picture Thursday on Instagram of Dolly Grace, who joined the family after a successful domestic adoption, according to the group's publicist. Schlapman also hosts a cooking show on Great American Country network called "Simply Southern" and she recently released a cookbook.



Proposal to combine Wyoming school districts lacks support

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — A proposal to slash the number of school districts in Wyoming by more than half to save money doesn't appear to be making the grade in the state Legislature. Consolidating the state's 48 school districts into 23 — one for each county — is one of the ideas suggested to ease the state's K-12 funding crisis. While consolidation would save the state some money on administrative costs, "it's highly personal for folks that have a county with multiple districts where those districts have very different centers... Читать дальше...

Viking's Choice: Career Suicide, 'Distractions'

NPR (npr.org) 

There's still power in three chords played loud and fast. Career Suicide cranks out '80s-inspired hardcore with the passion of teenagers discovering D.O.A. and Circle Jerks for the first time.

Benefit to fight pulmonary fibrosis draws Stephanie J. Block

TheRepublic.com 

NEW YORK — Stephanie J. Block, Mandy Gonzalez, Mario Cantone, Robert Creighton and Randy Graff will lend their voices to the fight against the lung-scarring disease pulmonary fibrosis. The seventh annual concert Broadway Belts for PFF! will be held Feb. 27 at the Edison Ballroom in New York City. Actress and comedian Julie Halston, who

'How do you explain your Twitter?': Senator grills CIA nominee over whether he thinks WikiLeaks is credible

BusinessInsider.com 

REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Sen. Angus King grilled President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for CIA director about his views on WikiLeaks, bringing up a recent tweet that seemed to show support for the organization.

Rep. Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to run the agency, sat for his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, asked if Pompeo thinks WikiLeaks, which posted thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman last year... Читать дальше...

Biden: Intel officials told us Trump allegations might leak

Stars and Stripes 

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that top intelligence leaders told him and President Barack Obama they felt obligated to inform them about uncorroborated allegations about President-elect Donald Trump out of concern the information would become public and catch them off-guard.

5 Things to Watch in Wells Fargo Results

WSJ.com 

Wells Fargo, in the news for its sales-practices scandal for the past four months, is expected to report its fourth-quarter results before the market opens Friday. Here’s what you need to know.

The Chargers will play the next 2 seasons in this intimate 30,000-seat soccer stadium

BusinessInsider.com 

Carlos Delgado/AP

The Chargers announced on Thursday that they are moving to Los Angeles, the city where the team was founded 56 years ago.

Their plan is to join the Rams in Inglewood in 2019, when Stan Kroenke's $2.6 billion stadium is expected to be finished. In the meantime — for the next two seasons — the Chargers will call the 30,000-seat StubHub Center home. 

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Amazon Hiring For 100K New Jobs, Trump Tries To Take Credit Again

International Business Times 

Amazon plans to add 100,000 new “full-time, full benefit” jobs across the country over the next 18 months, the company announced Thursday, while president-elect Donald Trump was quick to take the credit. Amazon’s workforce, one of the biggest in the country, will grow from 180,000 in 2016 to more than 280,000 by mid-2018. Over the past five years alone, Amazon created more than 150,000 jobs in the United States.

Reigning champions in danger of losing AFC Champions League spot

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- Reigning Asian club football champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors could lose their chance to defend the title this year due to a bribery scandal, the South Korean pro league office said Thursday. The K League said the Asian F





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