Duke Energy’s CEO is paying a price for a massive spill of collected coal ash that coated 70 miles of a North Carolina river in sludge containing toxic heavy metals.
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Jury rejects woman's bias claims against Silicon Valley firm
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A discrimination lawsuit that put a spotlight on gender balance and working conditions for women at Silicon Valley firms ended with a jury rejecting the female plaintiff’s claims.
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In this Salute to American Success, we’re taking a look at Retro Fitness and founder Eric Casaburi.
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APNewsBreak: Judge says hospital workers can refuse overtime
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A federal judge ruled Friday that Women and Infants Hospital cannot prevent workers from refusing overtime after the union representing 1,700 of them requested they protest layoffs by turning down extra shifts.
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Meerkat vs. Periscope: Live-streaming app battle & buzz
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Download Periscope, Twitter’s just-launched live video-streaming app, and you’ll find people broadcasting all sorts of mundane stuff: waiting for AT&T to fix their wiring, getting out of bed in Silicon Valley, looking outside their office window in Chicago.
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Backup options for Internet lines can be costly, complicated
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Hunter Newby describes himself as a real estate entrepreneur, even if he’s not marketing houses or land.
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Internet outages reveal gaps in US broadband infrastructure
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When vandals sliced a fiber-optic cable in the Arizona desert last month, they did more than time-warp thousands of people back to an era before computers, credit cards or even phones.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to give away most of his fortune
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is joining a long list of magnates promising to give away most of the wealth that they amass during their careers.
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Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week
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Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, evidence that strong hiring should continue despite signs of slower economic growth at the start of 2015.
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Republic Steel announces 200 temporary Ohio layoffs
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Republic Steel has announced it is temporarily laying off 200 workers from its Lorain plant in northeastern Ohio.