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SEATTLE — Critics thought it was over the top when Amazon.com Inc. expanded from books into music in 1998. When the Web retailer let competitors start selling things alongside its own inventory in 2000, they said Amazon had gone nuts.In both cases, Amazon proved them wrong. Media sales now total in the billions each quarter, [...]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dave Gilligan remembers being pushed outside to play baseball and other sports, but feeling it just wasn’t for him.So the 24-year-old business owner is skeptical about a proposal to nudge kids off the couch and out the door by taxing televisions and video games sold in New Mexico. The idea could backfire, [...]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A Swedish prosecutor filed charges Thursday against the organizers of popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, saying it has helped millions of users worldwide violate copyrights.The Pirate Bay, started in 2004, allows 10 million to 15 million users share films, music and other copyright-protected material.In charges that included top Hollywood production houses [...]

HAMILTON, N.J. — A civilian State Police employee was accused of sneaking into a church to look at pornography on a nun’s computer. Police arrested Thomas G. Findler Wednesday and charged him with burglary and theft.Authorities said Findler had been sneaking into Grace St. Paul Episcopal Church in the night over the last three weeks [...]

AUSTIN — A Corpus Christi judge denied the request Thursday of an embattled South Texas Democratic donor to dismiss a search warrant over a provision that suggests he has been involved in illegal drug trafficking.Mauricio Celis, a prolific donor to state and national Democratic candidates, was indicted by a Nueces County grand jury on four [...]

HOUSTON — Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal should have known not to delete more than 2,500 e-mails that a court had ordered him to produce, the general counsel for his office testified Thursday in a hearing on whether the prosecutor should be held in contempt.General Counsel Scott Durfee said Rosenthal was “crestfallen and surprised” [...]

DALLAS — AT%26T Inc. said service for customers with Web-enabled wireless phones in the Midwest and Southeast was restored to normal Thursday.For most of the day, customers could make voice calls but experienced trouble getting e-mail or connecting to the Internet with their smart phones or laptop computer connection cards, said AT%26T spokesman Mark Siegel.The [...]

BERLIN — German police have charged a robbery suspect after matching his DNA to that found on a piece of salami spat out at a crime scene.The bitten-off chunk of the telltale sausage was discovered at a building that had been broken in to in the southern city of Darmstadt in April, police said Thursday.The [...]