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WASHINGTON – Sen. Maria Cantwell wants to use state gambling laws to regulate parts of Wall Street, saying someone needs to police financial markets where “casino capitalism” involving highly speculative trades she likens to sophisticated betting continue unabated and threaten to create yet another financial crisis.
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All across the state, municipal officials are faced with grim choices as they brace for the possibility of unprecedented cuts to state aid by year's end, leaving them little room to maneuver.
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 Parents can learn about college financial aid at 7 p.m. in the Mount Olive High School Performing Arts Center auditorium. The school’s guidance department will host the session for parents of juniors and seniors. The speaker will be Michael Corso, director of financial aid at Centenary College.
SUNDAY, Dec. 6 “The Christmas Story Told Through The Arts” will be presented by eight area churches at 4:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Landing. The churches are coming together to present the nativity story through the arts, including bells, harps, songs, drama, puppetry and rap. All are welcome to attend. After the program, there will be a craft and bake sale to raise money to help ...
CHICAGO----Celebrating an illustrious history, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in medical imaging, will commemorate 12 years of Canon digital radiography innovation, and advanced portable and general digital radiography systems and solutions at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting , November 29th – December 3rd.
Given the way things have gone for Florida Atlantic this season, it seemed possible they could actually lose to winless Western Kentucky when the Hilltoppers took a 17-16 lead early in the third quarter Saturday.
ROXBURY TWP. — Investors Savings Bank, with a branch at the Roxbury Mall, is teaming up with the Marty Lyons Foundation to collect unwrapped toys and other gifts for children with wishes who are 3 to 17 years old.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Allen Iverson's retirement could be a short one.
WARREN TWP. – The feasibility of reorganizing and consolidating all four sending districts to Watchung Hills Regional High School into one super school district, and possibly adding the North Plainfield School District, which had been put on hold because of the state budget crisis, is now doubly put on hold awaiting direction from the new administration of Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie ...
By Chris Stern
(AP:GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands) A troubled insurance company is about to stop providing coverage to hundreds of clients in the Cayman Islands. The British territory's Health Insurance Commission says Sunday that the local branch of Colonial Life Insurance Co. will officially close on Tuesday.
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) central bank set up a facility on Sunday to support liquidity in the banking system Dubai's government sought to delay debt payments from two of its flagship firms, sending global markets lower.
Bernard Hampton knows what it's like to pay for his family's medical care. Until a few months ago, neither Hampton nor his 4-year-old daughter, Jasene, had health insurance. In Virginia, only pregnant mothers, the disabled and the poorest of the poor - those adults who earn less than 30 percent of the federal poverty level - automatically qualify for Medicaid. And with a salary of about $15,000 ...
Ranchi, Nov 29 (PTI) All UPA allies which supported the erstwhile Madhu Koda government in Jharkhand had shared the "profits of crime" which surfaced after the unearthing of the money laundering scam, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said today.
by James Randerson Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world's leading climate scientist has told the Observer . Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , warned that western society must undergo a radical ...
Animal cruelty investigators are sifting through Toronto Humane Society computers, emails, thumb drives, even food, as part of a sweeping search that a society spokesperson says is going too far.
