Articles from the March 30, 2017 edition
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AP Explains: What the death of broadband privacy rules means
NEW YORK (AP) — Now that both houses of Congress have voted to block Obama-era broadband privacy rules , what does that mean for you? In the short term, not so much. The rules, which would have put tough restrictions on what companies like C...
Notorious troll calls the online tactics 'a national sport'
Andrew Auernheimer isn't the kind of internet troll who hides behind a screen name. A notorious computer hacker whose anti-Semitic rhetoric matches the swastika tattooed on his chest, the 31-year-old views online trolling campaigns as a modern form...
Study: Early Americas girl 'Naia' may have been young mother
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More details have emerged about one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas, a young woman nicknamed "Naia" whose nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 2007 in a water-filled cave in Mexico's Yucatan P...
House approves bill to force public release of EPA science
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are taking aim at the Environmental Protection Agency, targeting the way officials use science to develop new regulations. A bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled House would require that data used to s...
Indonesia man swallowed by python, villagers and reports say
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 25-year-old Indonesian man has been swallowed whole by a python on the island of Sulawesi, villagers and news reports said. A six-minute video on the website of the Tribun Timur publication shows villagers slicing open t...
Photo op turns into chance encounter with big gator on links
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Carrie Moores says she'd only seen alligators at the zoo before relocating last year from Connecticut to South Carolina. That changed this week during a chance encounter with a very big gator on the golf links. Moores t...
Nintendo Switch gamers milking cows? An udder challenge
WOODSTOCK, Vt. (AP) — Nintendo gamers may be better at virtually milking cows, but they say dairy farmers beat them at the real thing, hands down. Two Nintendo employees on Wednesday beat two farmers at Vermont's Billings Farm & Museum during a g...
Attorney: Home owners got another letter from 'The Watcher'
WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey couple who claim they were scared away from their home by creepy letters they received from "The Watcher" say another letter was delivered. Lee Levitt, an attorney for Derek and Maria Broaddus, wrote in a legal b...
Birds blamed for fire at Massachusetts water treatment plant
PEABODY, Mass. (AP) — A fire that knocked a Massachusetts city's water treatment plant out of commission has been blamed on birds. Peabody Fire Lt. Chris Dowling tells The Salem News (http://bit.ly/2nzQdnw ) it appears the March 13 blaze was c...
Judge fines Pennsylvania golf course $1K for errant shots
EASTON, Pa. (AP) — A judge has fined a Pennsylvania golf course $1,000 in its ongoing dispute with a couple who says errant balls are still hitting their property despite a previous court order. The (Allentown) Morning Call (http://bit.ly/2nzSpeE )...
Driver runs out of gas again after stealing squad car
TULARE, S.D. (AP) — A driver who called for help after running out of gas is accused of stealing a deputy's squad car in South Dakota and leading authorities in a pursuit before once again running out of fuel. Troy James is charged with felony g...
