Mike Oxley of Ohio dies; helped create anti-fraud legislation after corporate scandals.
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The FAA said it was concerned that such accidents during routine maintenance or flights could injure passengers and crew and make the slides unusable in an emergency. The order would affect 302 planes registered by U.S. operators, who would have 42 months to replace the valves, the FAA said. The FAA posted the proposal on its website and planned to publish it in the...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.— The first order of business in the Rhode Island General Assembly will be resolving the unfinished business of last year. Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed and House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello say they are committed to an unusually productive winter. Those bills survived extensive public vetting last year and had wide support but were...
HOPKINTON, Mass.— EMC plans an unspecified number of layoffs ahead of its acquisition by Dell as the data storage company attempts to cut annual costs by $850 million. Dell said in October that it would pay $67 billion for EMC Corp., which is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. In addition to producing data storage equipment, EMC sells IT services to businesses, and...
NEW YORK— Operator, won't you help me replace this call? With some cities nationwide making renewed pushes for public Wi-Fi after an earlier wave of enthusiasm faded, New York officials say their project is democratizing data access while modernizing outmoded street phones. Payphones may seem like telecom relics when 68 percent of Americans own smartphones,...
HARTFORD, Conn.— Uniform standards for police body cameras, a higher minimum wage and new employment standards for domestic workers are set to officially take effect with the new year in Connecticut. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and the Police Officer Standards and Training Council were required to create a list by Jan. 1 of...
NEW YORK— AT&T will no longer offer discounted phones with two-year contracts starting Jan. 8. T-Mobile broke away from contracts completely nearly three years ago, and Verizon stopped offering contracts to new customers in August. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure told The Associated Press in September that discounted, contract phones— including his company's—...
BOSTON— The new year is ringing in a bit of tax relief for workers in Massachusetts. The state's income tax rate drops slightly on Friday from 5.15 percent to 5.1 percent. The state's minimum wage is also going up on Friday, from $9 per hour to $10 per hour.
In the last decade, the number of craft breweries has grown to more than 4,000 in the U.S. today, from more than 1,400 in 2005, according to the Brewers Association. A lot of breweries started out five or 10 years ago with a focus on beer, said Gregory Dunkling, director of the University of Vermont's new online business of craft beer certificate program, which starts...
Jan 1- France carried out air strikes early on Friday against oil sites in Syria near Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said during a visit to a military base in Jordan. France was the first country to join U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq. Since the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, it has increased its aerial bombing of Islamic...
MUNICH, Jan 1- Germany received a tip hours before midnight that named militants from Iraq and Syria were planning attacks in Munich but police have been unable to find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the Munich police chief said on Friday. We can't say if they are in Munich or in fact in Germany, "Andrae said. We have no information...
MOSCOW, Jan 1- Russia will file a lawsuit against Ukraine after Kiev failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond and $75 million of interest by Dec. 31, the Russian finance ministry said late on Thursday. Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk had repeatedly said that Ukraine would not repay the Eurobond at maturity on Dec. 20 and that Kiev was ready to fight the issue...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— More than $31 million— that's how much New Mexico homeowners and businesses spent on solar panels and solar heating systems in 2015 as part of an incentive program offered by the state. Since the tax credit is set to expire at the end of 2016, a bipartisan contingent of New Mexico lawmakers will be pushing legislation this next session to extend...
BERLIN, Jan 1- Germany shut down two train stations in Munich about an hour before midnight on Thursday following a tip from the intelligence service of a friendly country that the Islamic State militant group was planning a suicide bomb attack. But a Munich police spokesman said on Friday: "The situation has not eased and the terror alert remains."
NEW YORK— Investing is becoming more of a grind. Expect it to stay that way. "You have to be realistic and think the outsized runs we've had— in 2013, for instance— are pretty unlikely," said Mike Barclay, portfolio manager at the Columbia Dividend Income mutual fund.
Wondering how you will fare financially in 2016? Below are what experts think next year will hold for financial matters close to home: Raises, rent, gas, food and health. WILL YOU GET A RAISE NEXT YEAR?
HONG KONG, Jan 1- Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau fell for the second year in a row in 2015 as a prolonged anti-corruption campaign and slowing economic growth battered the world's largest casino hub. Las Vegas magnates Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson are set to open resorts in 2016 catering to China's burgeoning middle class, with attractions...
HONG KONG, Jan 1- Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau fell for the second year in a row in 2015 as a prolonged anti-corruption campaign and slowing economic growth battered the world's largest casino hub. Gambling revenue fell 34.3 percent to 230.84 billion patacas last year, government data showed on Friday. Only two years ago, China's only legal...
BERLIN, Jan 1- Germany shut down two train stations in Munich about an hour before midnight on Thursday following a tip from the intelligence service of a friendly country that the Islamic State militant group was planning a suicide bomb attack. The action by German authorities added to jitters in many capitals as Europe ushered in the New Year with heightened...
