Hewlett-Packard plans to jettison 27,000 workers as the growing popularity of smartphones, the iPad and other mobile devices makes it tougher for the company to sell personal computers.
2012
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Obama to Air Force graduates: ‘A new feeling about America’
President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a “new feeling about America” and more respect for its leadership in a commencement speech to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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Underwater search for Harvard Business grad turns up stolen car
Divers found a 1994 Cadillac just off Maine Wharf while they were looking for Nathan Bihlmaier, who disappeared Sunday.
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French passenger not charged in diverted Maine flight
The woman told investigators that she had been wronged by doctors and just wanted President Barack Obama to provide her with medical assistance.
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Maine police investigate death of 6-week-old girl
Bath Police Chief Mike Field said, however, that the death doesn’t appear to be suspicious
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Two independents file for U.S. Senate race
Two independent candidates have filed nomination papers to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Olympia Snowe, and neither is named Angus.
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Harvard event marks tragic loss
A moving essay by student Nathan Bihlmaier, who drowned in Portland over the weekend, is read at a business school ceremony on the day before graduation.
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Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to bin Laden filmmakers
A House committee chairman said Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Court: To be a pirate, you don’t have to board, rob a ship
The court ruled on two cases, one in which the USS Nicholas was fired upon in the Indian Ocean.