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COP and Treasury spar over TARP's final verdict
The Congressional Oversight Panel gave few compliments in its final report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and while a Treasury Department official didn't expect many, he said TARP did what it was intended to do.
Updated: 03/16/2011 12:01A
US crash test shows dangers of crashing into trucks
The institute concluded after a series of crash tests that because trucks are built fairly high and cars are low the car under-rides the back of the truck with the whole force hitting the windscreen and the roof pillars protecting the passenger
Updated: 03/16/2011 12:01A
Mobile unit sends timely message to speeding drivers
Shoalhaven mayor Paul Green said a review of recent crash data indicated that driver speed was a major threat to members of the community - pedestrians in particular. He said school children walking to and from school and council workers repairing
Updated: 03/16/2011 12:01A
Property bear leaves Nomura
Mr Prew developed a reputation as one of the City's more bearish real estate analysts after calling the market early – and correctly – ahead of the 2007 crash, while working at Lehman Brothers as head of real estate equities. And yet he also predicted
Updated: 03/16/2011 12:00A
US man guilty of assisting in 2 suicides
William Melchert-Dinkel was found guilty on two counts of violating Minnesota's assisted suicide law, according to the verdict from state judge Thomas Neuville. He faces up to 15 years in prison. He was charged specifically for his roles in the
Updated: 03/16/2011 12:00A
WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-NYC bus crash
In a similar accident Monday night on I-95, a bus that had left Chinatown for Philadelphia crashed in East Brunswick, NJ, killing the driver and a passenger. Though operated by different companies, the buses were among scores that line up in Chinatown
Updated: 03/16/2011 12:00A
Crane havoc not checked
DARWIN port authorities were accused of not fully investigating a potentially fatal accident at East Arm Wharf. Four wharfies were almost hit when a 950-tonne crane slid for 260m in January. The giant crane, which lifts containers on and off ships,
Updated: 03/15/2011 11:59P
Smoking Case to Go To Fla. High Court
The RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. on Tuesday asked the justices to reverse a $28.3 million verdict won by the family of a deceased smoker in Pensacola. The 1st District Court of Appeal affirmed the verdict in December, siding with the family of Benny Martin,
Updated: 03/15/2011 11:58P
Air India Forms Four-Member Panel To Examine Pay Parity
The board, at a meeting held in Mumbai, named retired justice, DN Dharmadhikari, as chairman of the four-member panel, the flag carrier said. The federal government had in August 2007 merged state-run Indian Airlines and Air India into one company.
Updated: 03/15/2011 11:58P
Oil Kings blow away Canes
Lethbridge coach Rich Preston didn't toss any water bottles at Rexall Place Tuesday night, but his Hurricanes were all but tossed from the WHL playoffs after the Edmonton Oil Kings who blew them away 8-1 at Rexall Place
Updated: 03/15/2011 11:58P
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