Articles from the October 6, 2016 edition
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3 win Nobel chemistry prize for world's tiniest machines
Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines — the smallest ever built. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard "Ben" F...
Plane evacuated after Samsung smartphone starts smoking
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — An overheating, smoking Samsung smartphone forced the evacuation of a Southwest Airlines jet that was preparing to take off Wednesday from the Louisville airport. The incident raised fresh trouble for Samsung, w...
Reported Yahoo email scanning revives surveillance concerns
NEW YORK (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — Yahoo's reported agreement to assist U.S. investigators by searching all email sent to hundreds of millions of accounts has stoked fresh concerns about mass government surveillance — not to mention questions over jus...
US traffic deaths jump by 10.4 percent in first half of 2016
WASHINGTON (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — U.S. traffic fatalities rose by an estimated 10.4 percent in the first half of this year, federal officials said Wednesday, and continued an upward trend that started in late 2014 as the economic recovery a...
Young bull moose visits downtown Bismarck and state Capitol
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — A young bull moose has been taking in the sights of North Dakota's capital city, visiting a mall, several backyards and even wandering in the grounds of the state Capitol. Bismarck Animal Control officials e...
Police in Italy find fugitive mob boss hiding in home bunker
ROME (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — One of Italy's most-wanted fugitive mob bosses was arrested after five years on the lam Wednesday when police found him hiding in a home bunker built between the bathroom and his son's bedroom. Antonio Pelle, 54, crawled o...
Police: Doughnut heist leads to capture of wanted man
HOBBS, N.M. (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — Authorities say a fugitive's sweet tooth helped police capture a wanted New Mexico man after he tried to take a doughnut without paying for it. The Hobbs News-Sun reports (https://goo.gl/epcavx) that Gregory M...
Airborne treat: Frozen yogurt business tests drone delivery
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — A frozen yogurt business is trying out the idea of making deliveries using a drone in Michigan. A test run of Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt's drone delivery took place Tuesday at Hope College in Holland. Dubbed "...
Google scraps 100,00-euro bill run up by Spanish kid
MADRID (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — Google has written off a 100,000-euro ($112,000) bill run up by a 12-year-old Spanish boy who mistakenly believed he was earning money through an advertising account he opened with the internet giant to promote videos o...
