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Borders Asks Court for More Time on Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan
In a court filing yesterday, Borders Group asked for more time to file its bankruptcy reorganization plan, the Wall Street Journal's Market Watch reports. The Manhattan US Bankruptcy Court filing asked that the bookseller be
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:28P
Neal Boortz: Helpful tips for confused voters
If you think established law should be turned on its head to give unions priority over secured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, you're a member of the Obamajahadeen. If you think America's greatness comes from government rather than freedom and
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:28P
Us Peons Just Don't Get It: Great Men Have Big Needs
"We and the Americans do not belong to the same civilization," sniffed Jean Daniel, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur, insisting that the police should have known that Strauss-Kahn was "not like other men" and wondering why "this chambermaid was regarded
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:28P
Smurfit Shareholders Lose Bid to Block $3.5 Billion Rock-Tenn Buyout Offer
It has operations in Canada, Mexico, China, Puerto Rico and the US Smurfit-Stone had sought bankruptcy protection from creditors in 2009 as a result of the economic decline in the US, officials said. The company emerged from Chapter 11 a year later
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:27P
Letter to feds urges 'immediate action' vs. Arpaio
Their letter comes two weeks after a news conference at which they called on Arpaio to resign, and asked the US Department of Justice to place the Sheriff's Office into receivership, a rarely used legal process putting organizations under independent
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:27P
KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Tulare Co to pay $1.5M for
(AP) - Tulare County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed man shot and killed by a sheriff's detective in 2008. Attorney Brian Claypool, who represents the family of Zachary Atkinson,
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:27P
Culture wars across the Atlantic
Still others manage to get charges quietly dropped (Nicolas Sarkozy in an old real estate deal). The culture gap between France and America yawns, as everyone knows, on sex. The US, a still-young country born in strict puritan morality, remains uneasy
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:26P
Jurors sworn in for Casey Anthony murder trial
CLEARWATER — Nine women and eight men were sworn in as jurors Friday for the murder trial of an Orlando woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter. The swearing in concluded an exhaustive selection process that began last week at Pinellas County
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:26P
Township Looks for Answers in Wake of Accusations Against Lower Merion Police
In 1993, for example, a Lower Merion officer was said to pull a gun before handcuffing a local pastor, from Mount Calvary Church in Ardmore, after stopping him for a minor traffic violation. “The incident has mobilized black leaders along the Main Line
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:26P
Authorities try to identify person whose remains found in Sierra near Calif
The Union of Grass Valley reports the gun was sent to the California Justice Department's ballistics laboratory in Sacramento in hopes the fingerprints could help in the identification. The remains and gun were found Saturday near Crystal Peak,
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:26P
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