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Current 25: News war ends with Hearst closing the 'Light'
To meet Justice Department anti-trust standards, the Hearst Corporation promised to launch an earnest search to find a buyer for the Light — though many critics at the time said the search was merely perfunctory. In 2004, former Light city editor Fred
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:18A
Courts likely to decide apartments issue in Asheville's Kenilworth neighborhood
But Howington has raised related issues in a lawsuit in Buncombe County Superior Court. And an attorney advising the board said reviewing the constitutionality of the ordinance that Daniel based her ruling on is outside the Board of Adjustment's
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:18A
Home invasion leads to two years in prison
As this is a personal injury offence, Burge said the only options for sentencing were jail or a suspended sentence. "It's my submission that a suspended sentence is completely inappropriate." He also asked the judge for a 10-year firearms prohibition
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:18A
Patent Uncertainty and Political Flux Keeping hESC Investors from Seeing Returns
“The confusion around patentability of products based on hESCs dissuades commercial investments from biotech and pharma in this new space and will slow translation of the very exciting basic science into the clinic.” Dr. Daley added that “we probably
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
Haslam: Best teachers should be goal
Haslam said his education agenda has focused on improving teacher performance, including a new law that makes it more difficult for teachers to earn and keep tenure job protections. A separate bill curbing teachers' collective bargaining rights did
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
State briefs: June 1, 2011
There were no traffic fatalities in Knox County over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, although there were several DUI arrests, authorities said. The Knoxville Police Department arrested 17 motorists for DUI, while the Knox County Sheriff's Office made
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
State briefs: June 1, 2011
There were no traffic fatalities in Knox County over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, although there were several DUI arrests, authorities said. The Knoxville Police Department arrested 17 motorists for DUI, while the Knox County Sheriff's Office made
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
A matter of housing: Construction of urology institute not to be stopped
While hearing a miscellaneous application of the union on Tuesday, Justice Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Saghir Ahmed Qadri of the LHC's Rawalpindi Bench, assured the workers that the government would make the institute without disturbing staff residences.
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
Business Highlights
AP WASHINGTON (AP) - Home prices in major areas reached their lowest level since the housing bubble burst in 2006, driven down by foreclosures, a glut of unsold homes and the reluctance or inability of many to buy. Prices fell from February to March in
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
Supercenter development faces scrutiny in California
on the surrounding community's small and neighborhood businesses, jobs, property values, public services, tax revenues, traffic, and main street business districts, if a proposed state law that was given state Senate approval makes it into law.
Updated: 06/01/2011 12:17A
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