A study of Las Vegas casinos that use Twitter show they’re using the social media service, but not posting to it very often. The study says 40 percent of the casinos that have property accounts post less than once per day.
WASHINGTON — The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw millions of people out of work last year, leaving one in seven Americans in poverty. The overall poverty rate climbed to 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people, the Census Bureau said Thursday in its annual report on the economic well-being of U.S. households. The report covers 2009, President Barack Obama’s first year in office.
NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey has forgiven Jonathan Franzen. Nine years after picking Franzen’s “The Corrections” for her book club and then canceling his appearance on her show after he expressed ambivalence over her endorsement, Winfrey has chosen his new novel, “Freedom,” according to three booksellers. The booksellers asked not to be identified, noting that the talk show host is not scheduled to announce her pick until Friday.
CINCINNATI — A grand jury has indicted an Ohio woman accused of providing marijuana to her 2-year-old daughter and using her cell phone to record the child smoking the drug.
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