Insurers face rising tide of fraud - Times Online
The insurance claims officer scratched his head as he looked at the form in front of him. It made no sense. That one ice-cream van could be stolen from the middle of a large council estate seemed possible, but two ice-cream vans? In one night

S Koreans mourn rising star supermodel - News.com.au
FANS and friends today expressed shock at the death of a South Korean supermodel who was found hanged in her central Paris apartment earlier this week. Daul Kim’s friends remembered her talent and the difficulties she faced, while her Internet

The flood water was rising as Cumbrian bridges fell - News and Star
Scores of Workington residents spent the night in hotels last night after parts of the town were evacuated following a day of flood chaos. People living in low-lying areas close to the raging River Derwent were told to leave their homes at lunchtime

Golden age of rising budgets is over, universities warned - Times Online
Universities have been warned to expect heavy cuts next year as the head of their funding body told them that the golden age of rising budgets was over. Fields for research funding would become more limited, money for teaching would be scaled

Child porn offenders no longer falling through the cracks - New Orleans Times-Picayune
Louisiana State Police The Sex Offenders database that can be found at http://www.icrimewatch.net/louisiana.php allows Louisiana residents to learn about convicted sex offenders in their area. A little more than a year ago Louisiana’s Sex Offender

Trick play boots falling Broncos - Raleigh News & Observer
LANDOVER, Md — . The Washington Redskins did everything except hold a big neon sign to let the world know that a trick play was in the works. The Denver Broncos still couldn’t stop it. Life was so much easier when they were 6-0. Energized by the odd

Toddler Dies After Falling From Window At Home - WFTV
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Investigators have a lot of questions about the death of an 18-month-old boy who fell to his death from a window at his home. Deputies say the toddler fell out of a window at his foster home on McEwan Lane near Conway Road and

Update - 750 bridges still falling down - Cape May County Herald
[quote="GrassySound" Ocean Drive Bridge in the Crest. That span, and the lower spans to the west, were built in 1940. Combine this with the amount of times its been hit by vessels, and one should be at least a wee bit concerned.[/quote] This bridge

Conjoined twin girls undergo risky surgery - MSNBC
MELBOURNE, Australia - A team of Australian surgeons were working Monday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head. The 2-year-old Bangladeshi orphans, Trishna and Krishna, share parts of their skull, brain tissue and blood flow. Doctors

Oh Baby! Randy Bresnik to be on International Space Station When Daughter is Born - ABC News
NASA astronaut will be on International Space Station when his daughter is born. He and his wife, Rebecca, are also dreaming of the birth of their baby girl. The two dreams are about to become reality at the same time. Bresnik will be on a mission in space when Rebecca is scheduled to give birth. “I

Henderson: GM to begin repaying aid by year-end - Boston Globe
WASHINGTON General Motors Co. will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amount as early as 2010, five years ahead of schedule, CEO Fritz Henderson said Monday. The government debt represents about 13 percent of the $52 billion that

EU defense and foreign ministers mull Afghanistan - AOL
BRUSSELS -EU defense and foreign ministers meet on Monday to discuss how to shore up Afghanistan’s shaky government, amid plummeting public support in Europe for the U.S.-led war effort in Central Asia. Kai Eide, the top U.N. official in Kabul, will brief the rare joint meeting that will assess the

Kosovo ruling party claims victory in local elections - TMCnet
PRISTINA, Nov 16, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said Monday that his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has emerged the winner in most municipalities in Sunday’s local elections. The ruling party prevailed in about 70 percent of the municipalities in Kosovo’s first local

Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis get early Oscars - Cleveland Plain Dealer
View full size Chris Pizzello, Associated Press From left, filmmaker Roger Corman, actress Lauren Bacall and cinematographer Gordon Willis pose with their honorary Oscars following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2009 Governors Awards Saturday in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES Without

South Georgia Bank Closed By Feds - WGCL
SPARTA, Ga. — Regulators shut down United Security Bank, a small bank in south Georgia, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 116 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults on loans. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday took over United Security Bank, based in Sparta

Army chaplain leads prayer for Fort Hood suspect - AOL
FORT HOOD, Texas -Soldiers and others are attending church services at Fort Hood, Texas, and in neighboring Killeen to pray for the man authorities say went on a shooting spree and to honor the victims. An Army chaplain exhorted worshippers to pray for meaning in the worst massacre on a military

Costa Mesa s finance director on leave; reason not given - Daily Pilot
Costa Mesa s top financial executive, Finance Director Marc Puckett, has been put on leave for an undisclosed reason. Although privacy requirements prevent city officials from making public the exact cause of Puckett s absence, City Manager Allan

Quinn to take action on campaign finance - Chicago Defender
Gov. Pat Quinn is set to take action on a campaign finance bill that Republican lawmakers have called on him to veto. GOP leaders in the General Assembly say the bill is flawed, and they want to work on a new version. Quinn has hinted he’ll use his

Cutting finance back down to size - Financial Times
For years, the Tobin tax a tiny levy on cross-currency financial transactions has been a roving solution in search of a problem. It has now found a friend in Lord Turner, chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority, who suggests

Gov. Quinn vetoes campaign finance reform bill - Chicago Sun-Times
In an unusual ceremony today, Gov. Quinn vetoed a campaign finance reform bill he had testified in favor of. He was joined by all four state legislative leaders including those who passed the bill but now say they realize it is flawed, or at a

Illness, guilty plea highlight Stanford case - KTRK
HOUSTON — Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, jailed on charges of bilking investors out of $7 billion, was hospitalized Thursday with an irregular heartbeat and high pulse, just hours before his ex-finance chief became the first person to plead

Tenneco to Webcast Presentation at Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance - PR Inside
Tenneco (NYSE: TEN) will participate in the Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance Conference to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Tenneco s Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Gregg Sherrill, will present at 2:15 p.m

Quinn vetoes campaign finance bill - Sauk Valley Daily Gazette
CHICAGO (AP) Gov. Pat Quinn has vetoed a campaign finance bill he once praised after mounting criticism that it’s riddled with loopholes. During the news conference to announce the veto Thursday, Quinn said “I think we can do better.” The

Mayor steps back from putting finance director on leave - Anniston Star
Anniston Mayor Gene Robinson this morning said he would suspend a city employee who filed an ethics complaint against the City Council, though he changed his mind this afternoon when he found out that action would definitely be an ethics violation

Quinn vetoes campaign finance bill he once praised - Northwest Herald
CHICAGO Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed a campaign finance bill on Thursday that he once praised, saying Republican and Democratic lawmakers, reform groups and average people around the state convinced him he should scrap the bill and start over. Flanked

Man’s Cluttered Washington County Home Condemned, Cleaned - WPXI
WASHINGTON, Pa. — A southwestern Pennsylvania city has condemned the cluttered home of an 89-year-old man so it can be fixed up and made habitable once again. In the meantime, Henry Breide has been moved into a personal care home while officials in

Bernanke Victimized By Identity-Fraud Ring: Report - CNBC
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is one of hundreds of victims of an identity-fraud ring, according to Newsweek magazine. The ring is run by a scam artist known as “Big Head,” the magazine said on its website. The ring has been known for

Facebook to give site users more control over personal information - San Jose Mercury News
Aug 26: Facebook knows too much, ACLU says in warning of quizzes Masters of multitasking fall short in Stanford study Facebook: Cash feast for Silicon Valley food bank from friends of social networking site TORONTO Facebook agreed Thursday to

Thursday’s Personal Finance stories - Marketwatch
If you were to judge by the rancorous town-hall meetings or the vitriolic television ads or the overheated rhetoric out of Washington, you would come to the conclusion that Americans are so divided over health-care reform that there is no way we will

Facebook Moves to Improve Privacy and Transparency - New York Times Blogs
Facebook announced on Thursday that it planned to change the site to give users more privacy and control over their personal information. But the biggest changes may be for the 1 million software developers who create Facebook applications. The

Bernanke personal bank account struck by ID theft - The Washington Times
WASHINGTON An elaborate identity theft scheme has reached the highest levels of the U.S. financial system, striking the personal bank account of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his wife. According to a Washington, D.C., police report

Facebook adopts privacy controls - Contra Costa Times
TORONTO Facebook agreed Thursday to give users more control over the information they share with third-party applications like games and quizzes in response to concerns raised by Canadian privacy officials. Currently, people who wish to use such

Facebook agrees with Canada on privacy controls - Associated Press
TORONTO (AP) — Facebook agreed Thursday to give users more control over the information they share with outside applications like games and quizzes in response to concerns raised by Canadian privacy officials. Currently, people who wish to use such

Fed’s Bernanke, Victim of ID Theft, Takes His Own Medicine - Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve has issued warnings to Americans in recent years to be on guard against identity theft and guidance to banks on how to address it. It turns out the Fed chairman himself, Ben Bernanke, has fallen victim to an identity-theft ring

Australian shares outlook - Flat to higher as credit woes weigh
Forbes - Yesterday, the S&P/ASX 200 closed down 119.9 points or 2.3 percent at 5,087, after moving between 5,039.6 and 5,183.6. The All Ordinaries was off 115.3 points or 2.2 percent at 5,173.2.

American Axle strike to idle General Motors’ Moraine, Ohio, plant
Detroit News - The week-old United Auto Workers strike against Detroit-based American Axle Manufacturing Holdings Inc. has rippled out to idle a fifth General Motors Corp. plant. GM spokesman Tom Wickham said this morning that GM’s Moraine, Ohio, assembly plant was

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Forbes - WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. (AP) - BMW Group said Monday its February U.S. sales fell slightly on lower demand for its namesake brand cars and light trucks. BMW sold a total of 24,190 vehicles, down 1.8 percent from 24,642 in the same month of 2007

Daylight-Saving Time: Lose an Hour, Gain a Good Night’s Sleep
StreetInsider.com - This situation results in slower thinking and reaction time, as evidenced by the increase in auto accidents in the two days following the Daylight-Saving Time shift - more than on any other day of the year.

PeopleFirst Founders First Again With Paperless Lending
San Diego Business Journal - Their first startup, PeopleFirst.com, provided auto loans to the cr me de la cr me of borrowers, sending them a blank check the next day, huge leverage in getting the best deal.

Despite all the complaints, new car finding acceptance
NASCAR - Sunday’s victory was his second in a row this season — his second in less than a week, actually (thanks to the interminably rain-delayed Auto Club 500 in California that didn’t wrap up until last Monday)

Greg Becker Promoted to President of Silicon Valley Bank
Forbes - Previously Webb was a vice president in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs, the chief information officer of Finance One at Bank One Corporation and chief technology officer for GE Capital’s Auto Finance business.

Manic Monday: Sensex crashes over 900 pts
Hindustan Times - The major contributor to the fall were shares in metal, capital goods, oil and gas, bank, PSU realty, power, IT and auto. As the selling pressure spilled over a wide-front, small cap stocks index tumbled by 389.78 points to 9,238.35 and midcap index

McGrath to build $3.6M Sev-Rend headquarters in Collinsville
MSN MoneyCentral - The company will move from its current home at 1920 Kingshighway Blvd. in St. Louis to 5301 Horseshoe Lake Road in Collinsville. Sev-Rend has been in St.

Hamas claims Gaza “victory” as Israel pulls back
Reuters South Africa - You are here: Home > News > International > Article By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas declared victory after Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip on Monday

Builders expand into care home market
This Is Bolton - CONSTRUCTION firm G&J Seddon is building on its success with a new regional office. The company, based in Plodder Lane, Bolton, opened a Scottish office last October and has since taken advantage of a building bonanza in the care home sector. It

Best Buy To Pay Some DIRECTV Customer Bills
HULIQ.com - Connecting to an HD source, using the right cables, adding surround sound and having the home theater professionally installed are all vital elements of HD.

Bush Says Gains in Iraq Will Continue
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle - For now, Bush says his decision on bringing more U.S. troops home will be based on how such a move will affect success in Iraq. He says he won’t reach a conclusion until he hears from Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs of

Six Flags Releases New Elements of ‘The Dark Knight’ Coaster
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Clinton in Ohio, Texas: End of the road?
Reuters South Africa - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton, the prohibitive favorite in the Democratic presidential race just months ago, faces the possible end of her White House road on Tuesday in Ohio and Texas. The New York senator battled on Monday to save her

RazorSharks extend home win streak
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (March 3, 2008) Having not played in a week, the Rochester RazorSharks started off a little rusty Sunday, but it didn’t take long for their offensive firepower to kick in. After surrendering the game’s first 11 points, Rochester battled back for