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Microsoft unveils Xbox One the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system
REDMOND, Wash., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new vision for the future comes to life today as Microsoft Corp. unveils Xbox One, the all-in-one gaming and entertainment system created for today and the next generation. At Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the company showcased how Xbox One puts you at the center of all your games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype. ...
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Panera expands HQ in Sunset Hills
Heres some good news on the restaurant front: Panera Bread Co. is growing its corporate presence in St. Louis, with an expansion at the companys Sunset Hills headquarters. The company plans to hire 85 people for the St. Louis support center this year, company officials said. Panera currently occupies 116,277 square feet at 3630 S. Geyer Road; late last year the fast-casual chain signed a lease ...
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Boeing St. Louis awarded $61 million in defense contracts
Boeing's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Boeing St. Louis two major contracts valued at $60.6 million, part of $717.7 million the department awarded Monday. One of the Boeing contracts is a $52.9 million modification to a previously awarded contract for the procurement of aircraft armament equipment for F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft. Work will be performed in ...
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Garcia Woods Take Their Shots at Each Other
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ABC counting on story lines to sell Indy 500
Television executives are hoping a robust bunch of story lines accompanying this year's Indianapolis 500 will help build interest in IndyCar beyond the signature race.Rich Feinberg, ESPN's vice president in charge of motorsports production, acknowledged Tuesday that IndyCar ratings have been "challenged in certain areas." But Feinberg says the best way for ABC-ESPN to help ...
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Davydenko Loses in 1st Round in Duesseldorf
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Police defend officer who shot NY college student
CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ...
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Bernie Bytes Baby Pedro is missing
Johnny Rodriguez didn't hesitate to link Carlos to Pedro."I've been in baseball more than 30 years and he could be a No. 1 guy in St. Louis," Rodriguez said after the game. "He reminds me of when I saw a young Pedro Martinez in (Triple A) Albuquerque in the early '90s. In fact, he shows me more than what Pedro did at his age, and you know how his career ...
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Tiger will return to Begays charity event
Tiger Woods is returning again to play a charity event hosted by Notah Begay III, his former teammate at Stanford.Woods will play in the NB3 Foundation Challenge in late August at Turning Stone Resort's Atunyote (ah-DUNE'-yote) Golf Club. It'll be his fourth appearance in the six years Begay has hosted the event, a fundraiser that targets health issues facing Native ...
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Peabody to allow Patriot to probe its financial advisers
oPatriot Coal Corp. can get documents from financial advisers Morgan Stanley and Duff & Phelps related to the company's 2007 spinoff after former parent Peabody Energy Corp. withdrew its opposition.St. Louis-based Peabody agreed to allow subpoenas for the documents to go forward, Steven Cousins, a lawyer for the company, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kathy Surratt-States on ...
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Stock indexes head higher in afternoon trading
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stock indexes are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street Tuesday, May 21, 2013, as investors look ahead to the Federal Reserve's next moves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, ...
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Kirk undecided on Pritzker appointment for Commerce Secretary
WASHINGTON--Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker has Sen. Dick Durbin's support to become Commerce Secretary, but Sen. Mark Kirk is on the fence.Kirk, an Illinois Republican, told the Tribune on Monday that while he had met recently with Pritzker, whose confirmation hearing is Thursday, he had not made up his mind on whether to support her. She's been making the rounds on Capitol Hill ...
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Hyatt workers set protest of Pritzker Commerce nomination
Hyatt workers and union members are set to protest the nomination of billionaire businesswoman Penny Pritzker to the Commerce Department in a continuing effort to call attention to a long-standing contract dispute.Members of the UniteHere union are planning to stage a protest Monday evening outside of the Hyatt McCormick Place, where the National Restaurant Association show is taking ...
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Arizona woman who killed boyfriend tells jury what shed do if life spared
Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of Arias' murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, AZ. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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Oklahoma governor says untold number missing after tornado
Austin Brock holds cat Tutti, shortly after the animal was retrieved from the rubble of Brock's home, which was demolished a day earlier when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled ...
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Tornado destroys part of Mount Olive business district
o A tornado ripped through Mount Olive's Main Street on Monday night, destroying four commercial buildings in the downtown business district and damaging at least 30 other properties.No injuries were reported. The storm hit at about 10:15 p.m. Monday.The townspeople were feeling lucky, compared to the devastation coming out of Oklahoma."Everyone is alive, and this is nothing -- just ...
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NFL Xbox enhancing interactive television viewing
The league and Microsoft announced a multiyear agreement Tuesday in which Xbox will provide fans new viewing innovations, including the ability to interact with live games, Skype video chat with other fans, view statistics, access highlights in real time, and gather fantasy information about players and teams - all on a single ...
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Knicks unsure about Stoudemires role
New York Knicks' Amare Stoudemire argues with referee Monty McCutchen after being called for a technical foul during the first half of Game 4 of an Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series against the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Indianapolis. The Pacers won 93-82. (AP Photo/Darron ...
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12 arrested at miners protest over Patriot benefits
Members of the United Mine Workers of America protest against Peabody Energy and Arch Coal Tuesday. Twelve protesters were arrested this morning at a rally outside the federal courthouse in downtown St. Louis, including United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts, ahead of a major ruling due within about a week in Patriot Coal Corps bankruptcy case. The ruling will affect more than ...
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Arias tells jury what shell do if allowed to live
Jodi Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online audience. She had hoped it all might convince a jury that she killed her one-time boyfriend in ...
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Red Cross volunteers ready to deploy to Oklahoma
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - More than 50 American Red Cross Greater St. Louis Region volunteers are on standby, waiting for their assignment to deploy following the deadly Oklahoma tornado. An American Red Cross volunteer nurse from Columbia, Missouri is already headed to Moore, Oklahoma. Two dozen people died in the Monday tornado and more than 230 people were injured. People who want to donate to ...
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Microsoft reveals Xbox One next-generation gaming
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company revealed the Xbox One, its next-generation entertainment console, during a presentation Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Don Mattrick, Microsoft's president of interactive entertainment business, called it an "all-in-one home entertainment system." He said the company has spent the past four years ...
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Coming up St. Louis Fed Bullards speech
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - St. Louis Fed President James Bullard will discuss monetary policy in a low-rate environment at a conference in Frankfurt at 11:30 a.m. Eastern. Bullard, a voting member of the Fed's interest-rate committee this year, has been an independent voice at the central bank. Prior to the last Fed meeting, he was one of a handful of Fed officials to express concern about ...
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BacterioScan raises $2 million toward $6 million funding round
Gil Bickel is chairman of St. Louis Arch Angels, an investor in BacterioScan. St. Louis-based BacterioScan Inc., is in the middle of a $6 million funding round, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The biotech company is led by St. Louis entrepreneur and managing director at Warson Capital Partners Dana Marshall. And, so far the group has raised roughly ...
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US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. diplomat has become a sort of tweeter-in-chief for the U.S. mission in Cuba, reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal critics on the island.The U.S. Interests Section has long cultivated ties to dissident bloggers and tweeters. But the mission's deputy chief Conrad Tribble has been reaching out to the communist Twitteratti as well.That has prompted ...
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St Louis high-speed rail link to Chicago breaks ground
St Louis, Chicago and the state governments of Missouri and Illinois have taken the first step in constructing the Mid West Hub of high-speed rail connections with the building of a high-speed line between the two cities which will quadruple capacity and spur economic development, according to proponents of the high-speed rail line.
Work on the high-speed rail link between St Louis and Chicago has begun, signalling the first step of a mammoth project that is intended to ultimately see Chicago become the hub of a national high-speed railway network that will change the nature of overland transport in the country. Read more
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