Twice in the past year, state health administrators cut the number of hours caregivers assisted Alex Perez’s severely disabled son at his Westchester home. Both times, the child’s pediatrician was left wondering why the state had reduced the care he had prescribed for the boy.On Monday, state Rep. Katie Edwards asked Perez if she had been “misled or misinformed” when state...
Intel bets big on thin PCs and phones at Las Vegas show
Label: TechnologyLAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Top chipmaker Intel Corp on Monday announced shipments of a new low-power chip and showed off next-generation ultra thin laptops and convertible tablets in its latest bid to prove that the struggling PC industry still has a bright future.At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas , Intel said new energy-efficient processors for tablets and laptops are available now, and...
The Bachelor Premiere Recap Sean Lowe
Label: LifestyleChaos ensued as ABC's newest Bachelor Sean Lowe decided to bend the rules tonight on the series' season 17 premiere. About a dozen girls walked into the first rose ceremony clutching a coveted stem after the Dallas native threw tradition to the wind, handing out his sign of approval with abandon on night one.Video: Sean Lowe's Steamy 'Bachelor' Debut
As expected, the ladies left rose-less were thrown...
A tax even Chuck Schumer hates
Label: Health Among the five new ObamaCare tax hikes that kicked in Jan. 1, one in particular is attracting opposition from both Republicans and Democrats: the tax on medical devices.Last month, 18 Democratic senators and senators-elect (including New York’s own Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand) wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid, asking him to delay implementation...
Florida company provides electrical power for the world
Label: Business More than 4,000 miles from its home base in Doral, Energy International is helping keep the lights on and the power grid humming in Gibraltar, the British territory on the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.Energy International, a global provider of power plants and energy solutions, sent a temporary plant that will provide power for at least the next two years while a...
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Scott Israel talks about BSO’s future
Label: World On Tuesday, Broward Sheriff-elect Scott Israel will take over the most powerful elected post in the county, overseeing about 5,500 employees and a $670 million budget.Past Broward sheriffs have generated colorful and political headlines. Nick Navarro, elected in 1984, ordered deputies to cook crack cocaine to use in drug stings, and ordered the arrest of the rap group 2...
Alleged Ohio rapists may not get fair trial: defendant’s lawyer
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Two Ohio high-school football players accused of raping a teenage girl may not get a fair trial after a photo and video allegedly associated with the case were posted on the Internet by the computer hacking group Anonymous, a lawyer for one of the accused said on Friday.Ma’lik Richmond and Trenton Mays, both 16 and members of the Steubenville High School football team, are charged with...
Smash Season Two TCA Trailer
Label: LifestyleAfter a very public behind the scenes shake-up, the newly installed Smash EP, Joshua Safran, and the cast addressed the press at the Television Critics Association Tour in Pasadena, CA today.First thing first, Safran wanted to make it clear that this rejiggered season is still very much the Smash you fell in love with last year. "I don't really think it's changed that much. The stuff you loved last...
Syria’s agony
Label: Health The death toll in Syria’s 22-month civil war has topped a staggering 60,000 — far higher than had been suspected.That’s according to an “exhaustive analysis” undertaken by the UN’s human-rights chief, Navi Pillay.And even that figure is probably an underestimate, experts say.What’s ironic is that the number of Bashar al-Assad’s victims is now higher than...
Billionaire Phillip Frost an ‘entrepreneur’s entrepreneur’
Label: Business For that blind first date, a half-century ago, the young doctor, Phillip Frost, showed up at Patricia Orr’s family house in suburban New York, with an unusual gift: a miniature mushroom garden.In the 50 years since, Frost, the son of a shoe store owner, has gone on to amass a fortune of $2.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine, becoming the 188th wealthiest man in the United...
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