Feds charge Chinese engineers with stealing Silicon Valley technology
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a Chinese professor and five alleged associates with funneling stolen U.S. trade secrets to China, claiming they used an elaborate scheme involving bogus patent…
6 movies inspired by Disney Theme Park Rides, from ‘Tomorrowland’ to ‘The Tower of Terror’
By Monica Castillo From International Business Times It used to be that Disney would take cues from some of their most popular movies and turn them into a rides for their world-class theme parks. Then “Pirates of the Caribbean” came…
Has the Barbados government reached another “tipping” point?
By Patrick Hoyos From CARIBBEAN360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sunday May 24, 2015 – Desperately flipping through its playbook of economic policies, the Dolittle administration decided to reach for the brass ring again: Find what might seem to be an obscure little…
Final section of modern, regional undersea cable comes ashore in Puerto Rico
From Fox News Latino Divers and technicians on Saturday completed the deployment of the most advanced undersea fiber-optic cable in the Caribbean and Central America, bringing ashore the final section and laying it in a trench dug in the sand…
St. Joe’s sued for softball team’s ‘sexually charged’ hazing
By Gina Passarella, From The Legal Intelligencer A softball player at Saint Joseph’s University has sued the school for Title IX violations stemming from allegations of a “sexually charged” hazing culture within the women’s softball team. The lawsuit, which was…
‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash killed in crash
From BBC US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash with his wife, police have said. Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were killed when their taxi crashed in…
Sheppard Mullin finds New Orleans police making progress—slowly
By Nell Gluckman, From The Am Law Daily Four years after the Justice Department found that systemic problems at the New Orleans Police Department led to widespread human rights abuses, a court appointed monitor from Sheppard Mullin reports that progress…
Hanergy secured $200m loan ahead of solar group stock tumble
By Cynthia O’Murchu From Financial Times Li Hejun, the solar tycoon and controlling shareholder in Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, took a US$200m loan pledging millions of shares in the Hong Kong listed company as collateral just two days before…
Texas governor: flooding had ‘tsunami-type power’ as 12 remain missing
By Amanda Holpuch in New York and agencies From The Guardian Three reported dead as Texas and Oklahoma battered by storms Tornado kills 13 in Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna Texas governor Greg Abbott expanded the emergency disaster zone…
Thoughts from a Vet on Memorial Day
By Jack Pachuta I was raised in Canton, Ohio. Long before the city became known as the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it was the place where William McKinley campaigned for and won the presidency in 1896…
