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RALEIGH – The North Carolina Technology Association’s annual “State of Technology” conference opens Wednesday featuring a top executive from IBM and a Startup Showcase event featuring six N.C. firms. The focus is on “Total Experience: Thhe intersection of customer, employee and user experiences.” The two-day event will be virtual. “Enabled by hybrid cloud, AI, data automation, IoT, edge computing and more, Total Experience gives organizations a competitive advantage, especially in response to circumstances such as the pandemic,” NC TECH says. Among the highlights: · Day 1 ope...

Darr BENTON – Rebecca Anderson of Arkansas can’t escape litigation over a fiery fatal double accident she started, Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ruled on May 5.  He denied summary judgment on her claim that the insurer of her parents relieved her liability by paying the $25,000 limit in their policy.  Gilbert found the original defendant in the suit, Daimler Trucks, was entitled to a determination of the proportion of liability.  Daimler Trucks filed a counterclaim against Anderson after the estate of Illinois truck driver Victor Morris sued Daimle...

Foray into Friday. 1. The world’s largest shrimp is on display at the Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula. 2. Barq’s Root Beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr. 3. Mrs. Mamie Thomas was the first female rural mail carrier in the United States, using a buggy to deliver mail to the area southeast of Vicksburg in 1914. 4. Still have your first teddy bear? Thank Theodore Roosevelt. On a hunting expedition in 1902 in Sharkey County, President Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear, an act which resulted in the creation of the teddy bear. 5. In 1929, H.T. ...

Tillery BELLEVILLE – Stephen Tillery, ready for trial on a claim that weed killer paraquat caused four plaintiffs to suffer Parkinson’s disease, won the biggest judgment ever in an American trial and lost it at the Illinois Supreme Court.  In 2003, after a bench trial, late Madison County judge Nicholas Byron awarded more than $10 billion to a class of cigarette smokers Tillery represented.  The few American cases with higher judgments, such as state tobacco litigation in the 1990s and Deepwater Horizon explosion suits, ended in settlement.  Tillery retreate...

SIU's campuses in Carbondale and Edwardsville will hold tuition and mandatory fees flat next year - as administrators say higher education shouldn't be out of reach because of cost. SIUC Chancellor Austin Lane says students and their families need a quality education, but they have to be able to afford it, too. "This is the third year in a row for not increasing undergraduate tuition. Our mandatory fees have remained at the same level since Fiscal Year '16. Just so everyone knows, we're doing everything we can to maintain our focus on affordability and accessibility." In addition, the univers...