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Two subsidiaries of Farmington-based United Technologies Corp. are shutting heating and ventilating parts manufacturing plants in Indiana, eliminating more than 2,000 jobs as operations move to Mexico. Carrier, a manufacturer of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration, said it...

I liked to play basketball but never watch it and have not seen any of the All Star activities but there seems to be a lot of dissing over Sting (shudder, his 'music' is unlistenable to me personally) being invited to perform versus a brother....

The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw just received $48 Million to move off of their disappearing south Louisiana island. The Isle de Jean Charles has been reduced from 11 miles long and five miles wide in the 1950s, to around a quarter-mile wide and two miles long today. The tribe’s disintegrating...

This is about family values. “We are very ‘family values’ in the Kentucky General Assembly — they are all awash in Christian family values, so that’s why I put that part in there that [erectile pills] can only be used in a marital relationship,” she said. “I started thinking, ‘How would this...

Schlumberger, the largest oil field service firm, cut 10,000 jobs in 2016 and another 20,000 jobs last year. The champion of hydraulic fracturing posted a loss of $1 billion, too. Throughout the world's financial pages, economists have adopted a new noun: stagnation, stagnation and stagnation...

The whole affair has been embarrassing for the Americans, who have had to ask the Cubans if they could have their highly sensitive missile back, says the BBC's Will Grant in Havana. The missile arrived on a flight from Paris "by mistake or mishandling in the country of origin," said a Cuban...

An ESPN reporter abruptly shut down Win Butler when he started a spiel about the U.S. election after he was minted MVP at the NBA all-star celebrity game. During the post-game interview, Butler attempted to discuss the U.S. election, but Steele shut it down — fast. "The U.S. has a lot they can...

We thought that the U.S. represented Canada and Mexico." Japanese officials say they believed they were also negotiating with Canada and Mexico when they struck a controversial side agreement with the United States on automobiles last year during the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks. They did...

MySanAntonio reports that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died of an unspecified illness at a ranch south of Marfa, Texas:

An Alberta man is asking the province to take some responsibility after strong winds blasted gravel at his new SUV, causing $17,000 in damage. Kosta Keramaris says he was driving his recently-purchased BMW along Edmonton's Anthony Henday Drive, also known as provincial Highway 216, when a...

I like this idea for keeping people employed but I must ask ; why aren't drillers required to clean up their sites when the leave...? Saskatchewan wants the federal government to bankroll a program that would see oil and gas workers who have lost their jobs clean up abandoned and dormant...

Two teenagers are dead and six injured after attempting to use their own sled on the luge/bobsled track at Canada Olympic Park, according to Calgary police. Emergency crews were called to the track around 1:30 a.m. MT. Paramedics said two people were pronounced dead at the scene and six others...

On their Facebook page dedicated to helping Gianna, the family provides a checklist for potential donors, noting, among other matters, that she has Type O blood, and that a compatible donor must have also have Type O blood, either positive or negative. There are also links on the Facebook page...

The school yearbooks and glossy brochures all show images of beaming students getting a good Christian education. And in promotional videos, student after student offers up glowing testimonials, especially about their teachers. According to the brochures, students attending Grenville Christian...

Eight-year-old Emma Larocque came home from school this week with her school's annual request to sell chocolate bars to help raise money for her school. This year, that request asked students to go door to door to raise $20,000 for items such as educational materials, desks and chairs — a...

Fifteen years ago, in Jan. 2001, six prominent Conservative lobbyists and university professors, including future Prime Minister Stephen Harper and provincial cabinet minister Ted Morton, penned the Firewall Manifesto. Prime Minister Jean Chretien‘s Liberals had been re-elected to a third-term...

As of February 3rd, the cups will be *rolled* out. Prizes include: TV's Cars Cash etc., Good luck!

District Attorney David Learner said a grand jury in Burke County indicted Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, on Monday on a murder charge. A federal indictment unsealed Monday charges Sullivan with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, as well as firearms offenses, charges that...

This case in Dallas would be the first known infection to take place in the mainland US, though Texas has seen seven other Zika cases all related to foreign travel. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director for CDC, said this was the first case it had dealt with involving a "non-traveller". "We...

The makers of Cold-FX have sat for years on a study that suggested Canada’s most popular cold and flu remedy was no more effective than a placebo in treating symptoms of the viruses. The study has just surfaced in a class-action lawsuit against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the Quebec drug giant...