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Discover Financial Services, the fourth-biggest U.S. credit card company, settled an antitrust suit in which it sought $18 billion from larger rivals Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. for blocking banks from issuing its cards.
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A judge in Los Angeles has ordered a former friend of Rodney Dangerfield not to distribute video footage of the late comedian taken during the final years of his life.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A model has settled a lawsuit against a New York City jewelry company for an Internet video in which she writhes and moans suggestively on a bed. A Manhattan judge filed a notice of the settlement last week....
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Texas A&M University agreed Tuesday to pay $2.1 million to settle a lawsuit over the collapse of a bonfire tower that killed 12 people and injured dozens more nearly a decade ago.
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Search engine giant Google yesterday announced that it had settled a pair of lawsuits that accused the company of copyright infringement, signaling a new chapter in how books could be read and purchased online.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The NAACP on Friday resumed efforts to force Virginia to put more voting machines in minority polling places, setting up a court hearing 15 hours before voters head to polls in the battleground state....
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The state of Maryland settled the final legal challenge to construction of the Intercounty Connector yesterday, agreeing to spend $2 million to reduce air pollution from school buses in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and install new air quality-monitoring equipment.
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eHarmony is releasing a new same-sex matching service starting by the end of March. This service is the product of legal problems the company has been dealing with out of New Jersey and California. A gay man in Jersey sued the company for not catering to same-sex relationships as a violation of his rights in the state of New Jersey, and earlier in the year, a gay woman from San Francisco filed a suit against the company for being denied access to eHarmony's service because of her sexuality.read more
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Former New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra has hammered out a deal with an accounting firm that claimed he owed it more than $100,000....
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A new trail plan for Jasper National Park isn't doing enough to protect wildlife, according to the Jasper Environmental Association.
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Prince William County schools Superintendent Steven L. Walts's long-running legal battles related to his former employer appear finished, after an elementary teacher settled this week a federal lawsuit against him and the Greece, N.Y., school system.
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NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit filed by a former official who said she was subjected to racial discrimination and sexual harassment during her two-plus years working for the stock car organization, the Associated Press has learned.
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NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit filed by a former official who said she was subjected to racial discrimination and sexual harassment during her two-plus years working for the stock car organization, the Associated Press has learned.
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Mauricia Grant said she was subjected to racial discrimination and sexual harassment. NASCAR has settled a $225-million lawsuit filed by former official Mauricia Grant , who said she was subjected to racial discrimination and sexual harassment during her two-plus years working for the stock-car organization.
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The Navy said that the deal required it to continue to research how sonar affected whales and other marine mammals.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A national environmental group recommended Wednesday that California overhaul its water-delivery system by building a canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta....
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The agreement settles a lawsuit stemming from accusations that Arbitron’s new ratings system did not adequately account for minority residents and households.
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Haggard claims in the lawsuit that the group forged his signature and exaggerated his involvement with the organization to solicit money.
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Country star Merle Haggard has sued an environmental awareness group, claiming it illegally used his name and likeness to raise money.
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Charlton Athletic are set to be taken over by a Dubai-based investment group which is believed to be owned by the ruling Maktoum family. The deal is worth around £50m with Zabeel Investments, whose interests range from luxury hotels to construction and the media, promising to provide the funding to return the Championship club to the top-flight.
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Two youngsters and their group have released a first class album titled Babilonah Vs Generous.
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The South Carolina Midlands Master Gardeners Association is selling master gardeners calendars for 2009.
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A KEY player in the drinks industry has admitted providing financial support to the campaigners fighting against Alex Salmond's proposal to ban the sale of alcohol to unde
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Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblatt helped a launch a new non-governmental organization (NGO) this week that says it will invoke the legacy of his late father, Kamal Jumblatt, to foster awareness on issues ranging from drugs to intercommunal
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Pastor Wilson administering a healing power to an old womanThe General Overseer of the Kingdom Generation Chapel International says he will take legal action against a Liberian journalist if he fails to retract his slanderous report recently published against him
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Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the skinny: Microsoft's food service operations on its Redmond, Wash., campus are being held up as being the first in the United States to meet the Certified Green Restaurant standards. It's doing all the things you might expect, like recycling products, using sustainable sourcing, switching to eco-friendly cleaning products and so forth. I just learned that there's a whole other twist to green kitchens: there is an astonishing amount of technology found in your...
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Lawyers for Republican candidate for governor Dino Rossi plan to file papers Monday for a court case in Seattle....
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Talk about sailing against the prevailing winds! Esko Korhonen and his partners at Federal Capital Partners recently raised $230 million in a real-estate private-equity fund that will invest in Washington region office, retail and residential properties.
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THE National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has urged the Federal Government to reverse its decision on the no-work-no pay policy especially on matters affecting industrial disputes.
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Ika National Congress has condemned the attitude of contractors handling projects with no regard for the people of Ika North East Local Government and Ika East Local Government areas of Delta State.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A lawsuit alleging illegal campaign spending is a political ruse meant to keep Republican candidate Dino Rossi off the campaign trail in the crucial final weeks of a hotly contested governor's race, Rossi argued Monday....
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XINXING, China (AP) -- Heartbroken at the sudden death of their baby boy, the Yi family struggled to forget what they thought was a tragic twist of fate. They burned his clothes, toys, everything but a single photo and the baby formula he drank....
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More and more companies are trying to demonstrate a good track record on biodiversity management to burnish their green credentials by participating in market-style systems they have helped to design and that have the approval of campaign groups.
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Having used its largess to finance skyscrapers of record-breaking height and artificial islands, the oil-rich emirate Abu Dhabi is now putting some of that money toward a series of environmentally conscious films.
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The American Bankers Association asked the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to override accounting rule makers’ new guidelines on mark-to-market accounting, saying they still relied too heavily on distressed asset values. The staff of the Financial Accounting Standards Board released guidelines on Friday intended to formalize a Sept. 30 joint clarification with the S.E.C. that [...]
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ACORN, a community organizing group that has operated for nearly 40 years outside the national spotlight, suddenly finds itself a central issue in the presidential campaign.
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Barclays is sued over claims it moved loss-making investments from its own accounts to outside investors.
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