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Tycoon ends £1.5bn case against bank
VINCENT Tchenguiz has settled his £1.5bn lawsuit against collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing in a confidential deal he branded “mutually acceptable”. It is understood the property tycoon will regain control of assets put forward as securities for a
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:32P
Small plane crashes in Socorro; police say 2 dead | The Republic
AP SOCORRO, NM — Authorities say a small plane crashed in Socorro on Monday afternoon, killing the two men who were onboard. State police and officers with the Socorro Police Department say the plane crashed at about 1:15 pm near the south Socorro exit
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:31P
Squad camera eyed for clues in trooper crash
DEERFIELD — Illinois State Police are reviewing video from a squad car after a state trooper was cut off and crashed Sunday on the Tri-State Tollway near here. The trooper had minor injuries and was treated at Highland Park Hospital and was released
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:31P
Ship Owners Agree to $44 Million Settlement for San Francisco Bay Spill
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and California Attorney General Kamala Harris were among the officials who joined Moreno, head of the Justice Department™s Environment and Natural Resources Division, at a news conference on the Bay's Treasure
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:31P
Cellular South Sues to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
"Today Cellular South stands with the US Department of Justice, seven state Attorneys General and Sprint in asking the Courts to protect American consumers from the harms to competition, innovation, and pricing that likely would result if AT&T is
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:31P
FBI: Violent Crime Down By 6 Percent in 2010
They remember Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving children and assume the same thing should be going on in the US today," University of Cincinnati professor John Eck, who teaches criminal justice research methods,
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:31P
Town Mourns Firefighter Killed In Crash
Robinson said they received a call that a woman was hurt in an accident in a construction zone on Interstate 80. Iowa State Patrol troopers said while they were directing traffic for the first crash, another driver came up too fast on the slowing
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:30P
Government wants covert police filming made legal
The judgment recommended Parliament change the law and criticised it for not addressing the problem earlier. Police suspended covert filming in 50 ongoing criminal investigations after the ruling. Crown Law estimate 40 current trials are affected.
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:30P
Apartment Blaze Evacuates Buildings, Redirects Traffic
Sarah McCraw Law enforcement have evacuated apartment buildings on Highway 32 just south of the Highway 43 intersection and several area fire departments are on scene, Ozaukee dispatch said. The fire is in 1900 block of Port Washington Road (also Hwy.
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:29P
Two Marines die in California helicopter crash
A brush fire caused by the crash has spread to about 50 acres, and in an effort to quell the blaze officials have deployed several air tankers, the Marine Corps said. The two Marines were pronounced dead at the scene by emergency responders,
Updated: 09/19/2011 08:29P
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