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Collection agency owner to pay $1M in lawsuit
Fischer Towing first filed suit against MGM Collections in 2008; the suit, which eventually was amended to add owner Debra Newby after the corporation filed for bankruptcy, recently ended in an award for the towing company.
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:08A
Collection agency owner to pay $1M in lawsuit
Fischer Towing first filed suit against MGM Collections in 2008; the suit, which eventually was amended to add owner Debra Newby after the corporation filed for bankruptcy, recently ended in an award for the towing company.
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:08A
Judge dismisses city from shed collapse suit
?A judge has dismissed the city of Casper from a lawsuit filed by the husband of a South Dakota woman who died when a shed collapsed at a municipal ball field. In a Tuesday ruling, US District Judge Alan B. Johnson concluded the city was immune from
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:07A
Nuclear fallout could exceed Chernobyl
The partial meltdown at Fukushima appeared more serious than the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, the US energy secretary, Steven Chu, told Congress. China, which had been driving a global revival of the nuclear industry, announced it was putting
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:07A
F1 - Mercedes to be 'big surprise' of 2011 - Soucek
Speaking to Marca in Spain, the former F2 champion and 2010 Virgin tester was asked to give his verdict about the looming world championship."I see it between the two Red Bulls and Alonso, but watch out for Mercedes, who seem likely to be the big
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:07A
Lautenberg plans hearings on bus safety after fatal crashes | Philadelphia
Many changes in bus-safety rules proposed in 2009 by the federal Department of Transportation have not been implemented, and with another deadly crash occurring Monday night, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., NJ) plans to
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:06A
Owsley 'Bear' Stanley | Hippie icon, 76 | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-03-17
Owsley "Bear" Stanley, 76, a 1960s counterculture icon who worked with the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead and was a prolific LSD producer, died in a car crash in Australia, his family said Monday. Lyrics sung by the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:06A
Ex-teacher sues over allegation of 12th-grade affair | Philadelphia Inquirer
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, describes their relationship as "an occasional intimate relationship from 2004 to 2010." Addis, 26, grew jealous after he told her last year he was seeing someone else, and threatened to "manufacture details about an
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:06A
Christian University Honors Cesar Chavez with Discussion of 14th Amendment
Among those expected to participate is Dr. Mark David Hall, the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the university who specializes in American political theory and the relationship between religion and politics.
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:05A
'Crazy' Busey appears again, on TV | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-03-17
But fellow contestant Marlee Matlin, who is deaf, concluded that much of Busey's aggressiveness was because of hearing loss, a legacy of his 1988 accident. (When the actor was fitted with a new state-of-the-art hearing aid, his world changed, he said.
Updated: 03/17/2011 03:05A