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Former Butcher Boy owner Jolly joins European Food Emporium
Bankruptcy proceedings for Butcher Boy Meat, Deli & Catering Inc., are past and the former owner is back at work, this time as meat manager of European Food Emporium in the former Butcher Boy site on South Virginia Street. For Jolly, it means still
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:58P
Calif. Assembly requires Amazon to collect sales tax
The bill stipulates that online retailers with a physical presence, including "affiliates" -- independent Web operators who get a fee for directing traffic to Amazon if it yields a sale -- must collect sales tax from sales made to California residents.
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:58P
Prosecutor suing over diabetes drug Avandia
COLUMBIA (AP) - British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC improperly marketed the diabetes drug Avandia to South Carolina consumers, hiding the medication's harmful side effects, according to a lawsuit filed by the state's top prosecutor.
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:57P
Andy Dick Faces Lawsuit over Genital Attack
Comedian Andy Dick's bizarre behavior finds him at the wrong end of a lawsuit after using his genitals to assault a man in the audience during a show. Robert Tucker was attending a show with coworkers where Andy Dick was performing. Dressed as a woman,
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:57P
WCIV-TV | ABC News 4SC prosecutor suing GlaxoSmithKline over Avandia
The lawsuit says millions of dollars in state funding was spent on prescriptions for Medicaid patients and state employees. Avandia was once one of Glaxo's top-selling products, but its popularity shrank since 2007 when its heart risks were first
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:56P
Wells Fargo to Pay $16 Million to End Disabilities Claims
(WFC), the biggest US home lender, agreed to pay as much as $16 million to resolve claims that the bank wouldn't do business with deaf and hearing- impaired people using a telecommunications relay service, the Justice Department said today.
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:55P
Roundup: Perry Adds Redistricting To Special Session
The lawsuit, filed in New York on behalf of stadium workers, claims that Legends tacks a 20% service fee onto sales that appears to be a tip, or gratuity. But the servers say it goes into the company's pocket. The lawsuit says the small print invites
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:55P
Verdict reached in murder trial with Berkeley High victim
Four and a half years after he was brutally murdered by gunfire in his family's Oakland apartment, a jury today announced guilty verdicts in the case of former Berkeley High School student Yonas Mehari. The complex, five-month murder
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:55P
Mexican Consulate's Campaign Against Trafficking Nets Two Cases
The campaign against trafficking targets Spanish speakers through ads on Spanish-language radio and Television. It focuses on people brought into the country for work or sex, not people smuggled across the border by coyotes just to get to the United
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:54P
Loertscher Faces Possible Ethics Probe
Stan Hawkins were in the midst of a dispute over county roads in Bonneville County — they filed a lawsuit in April seeking to declare three designated county roads there as private, over the objections of neighbors who no longer would be able to use
Updated: 05/31/2011 07:54P
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