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Dodgers petition courts to auction television rights
By City News Service, on November 13, 2011, at 6:15 am Lawyers for the Los Angeles Dodgers petitioned a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware to allow a future auction of the team's television rights, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Updated: 11/13/2011 09:17A
Camacho Equipment files bankruptcy
Inc. filed last week a bankruptcy petition before the US District Court for the NMI. Camacho Equipment Co., through counsel Timothy Bellas, filed a Chapter 7 petition. Under a Chapter 7 petition, most assets of the debtors are liquidated as quickly as
Updated: 11/13/2011 09:12A
Atlanta scaled back debt risks — unlike Birmingham
But the paths diverged widely last week when Jefferson County filed bankruptcy, providing an ominous reminder that Wall Street's financial excesses continue to damage the economy and ravage municipal finances. The same revenue engine that churned out
Updated: 11/13/2011 08:39A
How Berlusconi Created A Country In His Own Image
But James Walston, international relations professor at Rome's American University, says it's an open secret that Berlusconi entered politics to avoid trials and safeguard his empire. "He managed to save his companies, and he has managed to avoid the
Updated: 11/13/2011 08:04A
Life's too short for integrity
If integrity is akin to a prosperous bank account, then Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's new Sitcom Life's Too Short proves that they are heading for a bankruptcy of Greek dimensions. What were once brilliant comic conceits – the mockumentary
Updated: 11/13/2011 07:41A
St. Bernard Parish president's race is now a 2-man race
As the runoff campaign has heated up, Taffaro has struck back with allegations of his own, notably Peralta's 2009 bankruptcy filing. With advertisements complete with dice and cards, Taffaro says the debt is due to gambling. Peralta denies the gambling
Updated: 11/13/2011 07:39A
For the Record: Nov. 14, 2011
FircoSoft signed a six-year lease for 3800 square feet at 101 Fifth Ave. David Starr and Giorgio Versea of UGL Services represented the tenant, while Ryan Nizolek and Esther Zar of Murray Hill Properties represented the landlord, Eretz Group.
Updated: 11/13/2011 07:14A
OUR VIEW: The Jefferson County Commission makes a case for bankruptcy, but
The devil we don't know, and won't for awhile, is the county's $4.23 billion Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing, the nation's largest by a municipal government. Aside from the fallout -- what the filing does to the county's image, to state and local economic
Updated: 11/13/2011 06:59A
Firm's collapse shows little has changed on Wall Street
The bankruptcy filing last week by MF Global Holdings Ltd. didn't freeze lending and panic investors around the world, as Lehman Brothers' did in 2008. But the rapid fall of the firm run by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine shows risky behavior
Updated: 11/13/2011 06:55A
TOM SCARRITT: Patience, leadership can chase away cloud
Today, another dark cloud hangs over Jefferson County: the stigma of the largest municipal bankruptcy in America's history. It is hard to see any daylight through the layers of debt, the intransigence and pettiness of some of the creditors,
Updated: 11/13/2011 06:37A