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NEW YORK -- Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs will take a break from medical leave to deliver the keynote speech at next week's Apple conference, the company said Tuesday. Jobs went on medical leave in January for unspecified reasons, handing over day-to-day
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
Bay Pointe Country Club on auction block
In 2006, it filed for bankruptcy a day before it was scheduled to go on the auction block. At the time, Gibson said he had been close to finalizing a mortgage with a new lender, and he chose bankruptcy protection to avoid the possibility of losing the
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:16A
Citing 'alarming' losses, Borders Group creditors want to file their own
The committee, in a US Bankruptcy Court filing last Thursday, recited how losses are mounting "at an alarming rate." Over the first 2½ months of the case, the aggregate losses are more than $180 million, the committee said.
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:16A
Home Security during Vacation
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 65.8 percent of burglaries are residential and occur in eight to 12 minutes. Burglars also search for homes that are unoccupied. Since nothing ruins a vacation more than worrying, make sure you've taken
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:16A
Better late than never
With plans under way to extradite him to the international court at The Hague, the announcement was, as the Dutch prime minister observed, ''a good day for justice.” Mladic was not alone in perpetrating horrifying acts of brutality in the conflicts
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:15A
Attorney general suing maker of drug Avandia
The lawsuit says millions of dollars in state funding was spent on prescriptions for Medicaid patients and state employees. The Food and Drug Administration has issued restrictions on Avandia's use because of its links to heart attack.
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:15A
Mark Rabil: A tale of two cities and two juries
To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., as long as there is jury injustice anywhere in our state, there is a threat to justice everywhere in our state. All citizens have the constitutional right to serve on a jury, regardless of race.
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:15A
Ashcroft off hook in witness jailing
"Qualified immunity gives government officials breathing room to make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority. The court ruled 8-0 in support of Ashcroft's immunity, although the
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:15A
Terrorism-related suit against John Ashcroft thrown out by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously threw out a lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft that had accused him of misusing his power to arrest suspects as "material witnesses"
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:15A
Terrorism-related suit against John Ashcroft thrown out by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously threw out a lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft that had accused him of misusing his power to arrest suspects as "material witnesses"
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:15A
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