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Ex-mortgage executive sentenced to 2 years in prison for $200K bankruptcy fraud
Today, Sheridan sentenced David Findel, 46, former CEO of Worldwide Financial Resources, to two years in prison following Findel's conviction for bankruptcy fraud. TRENTON — A former mortgage executive from Monmouth County received a two-year prison
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:39P
Newest Louisiana legislators will get crash course in their new roles
By Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune BATON ROUGE -- Forty newly elected lawmakers will get their first taste of being legislators this week when House and Senate officials give them a crash course on lawmaking, media use and how their lives will change
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:39P
Supreme Court to Assess Key Bankruptcy Issue
The US Supreme Court has opted to weigh in on a key topic in bankruptcy law: whether lenders have the right to use debt as currency in bankruptcy auctions. An airport hotel bankruptcy case this year sparked an appeals-court split
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:39P
Supreme Court to Assess Key Bankruptcy Issue
The US Supreme Court has opted to weigh in on a key topic in bankruptcy law: whether lenders have the right to use debt as currency in bankruptcy auctions. An airport hotel bankruptcy case this year sparked an appeals-court split
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:39P
Ex-RCMP translator goes on trial February for allegedly funnelling information
MONTREAL — Five days in February have been set aside for the trial of a former RCMP translator accused of turning over sensitive information to a man tied to the Mafia in Montreal. Lawyers for both sides of the case met with Quebec Court
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:39P
15 reportedly killed in school-bus crash in China
The accident occurred Monday afternoon as the bus was traveling along a rural highway outside the city of Xuzhou in the province's north. Chinese news reports said the bus careened off the road after swerving to avoid another vehicle.
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:38P
Truck smash closes Monash Fwy
The Ferntree Gully on-ramp was also cleared for use before midday, but it is still being assessed for structural damage after being hit by a bridge beam in a truck crash about midnight. Drivers have been told to add two hours to their usual travel
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:38P
Little bug in Windows Phone 7: An SMS message can crash the phone and break
According to Winrumors, you can take out someone's Windows Phone 7 device (they say various Windows Phone 7s on any carrier) with a single, solitary SMS message with a certain sting of characters. Worse (or better?) yet, it doesn't have to be a text,
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:38P
CHP: Manslaughter Suspect Wasn't at Office Party Before Double-Fatal Crash
Justin Foulds of Lemon Grove is accused of triggering the fatal crash of 2 Friday night. Wherever Justin Foulds was in the hours before a fiery crash that killed two people Friday, it wasn't an office party,
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:38P
4-car crash causes injuries
COSTA MESA — A four car crash sent two people to the hospital Monday afternoon, police said. The crash happened about 4:30 pm at the intersection of Fairview Avenue and Merrimac Way near Orange Coast College, said Costa Mesa Police Department Lt. Mark
Updated: 12/12/2011 08:38P