EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The city of Evansville paid $60,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman whose home was damaged during a SWAT raid in 2012 as police investigated online threats against officers. The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/2apwFZa ) the settlement with Louise Milan was announced in May, but terms were not
Shares of Etsy Inc. rocketed 17% to a more than 10-month high in afternoon trade Monday, after Citigroup issued a bullish note on the online crafts marketplace a day before it was scheduled to report second-quarter results. That would mark the second-biggest one-day gain since the stock went public on April 16, 2015. Volume was about 7.3 million shares, already nearly five times the full-day average. Citigroup analyst Mark Kelley started coverage of Etsy with a buy rating, and a stock price target of $14, which was 19% above current levels.
Shares of Etsy Inc. rocketed 17% to a more than 10-month high in afternoon trade Monday, after Citigroup issued a bullish note on the online crafts marketplace a day before it was scheduled to report second-quarter results.
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The summer has seen a lot of sequels, but to the chagrin of Hollywood execs, many are bombing at the box office.
Analysts are crying sequel fatigue, but studios trying to bank on franchises isn't new. They're just doing it a lot more frequently, but with titles people care way less about seeing.
In looking at Box Office Mojo's ranking of some of the top-grossing franchises adjusted for inflation, it's clear that pursuing sequels has always been a roller-coaster ride. Читать дальше...
Maj. Gen. John Rossi left Fort Sill last month to head up the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.
CAIRO (AP) — The weekend's hot balloon crash in Texas has been a grim reminder of a similar but deadlier accident in Egypt three years ago, when 19 foreign tourists burned to death or jumped to their deaths from the…
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The flashiest parts of "Game of Thrones" may be the dragons and epic fantasy battles, but the dialogue between its hundreds of characters is the real meat of the show. There's a ton of talking in Westeros, and one extremely dedicated fan sat through the entire series and counted how many lines every character had.
Redditor WalterEagle crunched the numbers, and came up with a listing of the 100 characters with the most lines in the show, according to his count.
"A line... Читать дальше...
The United States is citing the 2001 congressional authorization to use military force (AUMF) as the legal basis to carry out the recent airstrikes against Daesh in Libya, US Department of Defense spokesperson Peter Cook said in a briefing on Monday.
The Hendrick Motorsports rookie's collision with Joey Logano ensures a sixth consecutive finish outside the top 10.
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The moment that The Bachelorette fans have been waiting for all summer long is finally here and we’ll finally find out who JoJo Fletcher picks tonight! The final two guys – Jordan Rodgers and Robby Hayes – will meet JoJo‘s family in Thailand during the two-hour finale, airing tonight (August 1) at 8/7c on ABC. [...]
"We have to face the truth," Tsai Ing-wen said to representatives of the native tribes of Taiwan. She said her government offered its "fullest apology" for the treatment of aboriginal Taiwanese.
A popular tool for tracking down rare Pokémon in "Pokémon GO" has been taken offline, and players are not very happy about it. Fortunately there are some alternatives that are still working. One in particular is from a travel site called Skiplagged, which might help you finally catch that Dragonite or Snorlax. Use it now before it also gets taken down.
When most people think about working with a creative agency, Don Draper's nostalgic, cinematic client presentations come to mind immediately. When I was watching that show I always thought to myself: this is great, but it's doing more harm than good. That dog and pony show needs to go away. Thinking that agencies should put on a show and pitch ideas needs to go out of fashion just like typewriters and rotary phones. I don't see business coaches, scientists, or other professional services companies doing that with their clients. Читать дальше...
For Teen Vogue, by Amanda Chan.
Now here is some sushi that even people who don’t like fish will love to eat!
Julieta Venegas joins the roster of honorees for La Musa Awards 2016 where she will receive the special La Musa Elena Casals award ...
After Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out against the parents of a Muslim American war hero, many top Republicans are continuing to support him as their party’s standard-bearer while denouncing his offensive remarks.
Читать дальше...COLUMBIA, S.C. — Hall of Famer Lynette Woodard wanted a new start in college coaching. Winthrop, with her old friend Kevin Cook, seemed like a perfect place. Woodard took her first coaching position since she was interim coach for alma mater Kansas in 2003-04. She spent four seasons as a Jayhawks assistant along since Cook,
Boyd Gaming completed the sale of its half of Atlantic City's Borgata casino on Monday to MGM Resorts International. Nevada-based Boyd said it received ...
Oil prices slipped below the psychologically important level on Monday, and another $5 drop could be on the horizon.
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DALLAS, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel probably can't afford to be picky when it comes to making an NFL comeback.
A FBI electronics technician pleaded guilty on Monday to having illegally acted as an agent of China, admitting that he on several occasions passed sensitive information to a Chinese official. Kun Shan Chun, also known as Joey Chun, was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 1997. Chun, who was arrested in March on a set of charges made public only on Monday, admitted in court that from 2011 to 2016 he acted at the direction of a Chinese official, to whom he passed the sensitive information. Читать дальше...
Archeologists have found 80 shackled skeletons in an ancient Greek cemetery who appear to be victims of a mass execution. But who they were, how they got there and why they appear to have been buried with a measure of respect — that all remains a mystery.
Kanye West really addressed his potential presidential bid in 2020. While speaking to BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac Monday, the Life of Pablo rapper opened up about his September 2015...
