DUI campaign nets more arrests
- 1:17 PM — Dec 31 —
- Source: The Record Searchlight - Redding CA
New Year's Eve is only a few hours away, but some Shasta County drivers might not be in a very celebratory mood after being arrested during the past 24 hours on suspicion of drunken driving. Read More
Obama’s Pay Czar Defends Fannie, Freddie Compensation Deals
- 12:34 PM — Dec 31 —
- Source: Holiday Sales News Tracker - The Wall Street Journal
The Obama administration's pay czar said Wednesday that he was "sympathetic" to the "unique problems" that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac face and that don't exist at other financial firms in defending the government's approval last week of multi-million dollar pay packages to the companies' senior executives. Read More
Kenneth M. Dorman
- 12:27 PM — Dec 31 —
- Source: Le Mars Daily Sentinel - Le Mars IA
Kenneth M. Dorman, 72, of Sanborn, and a former Le Mars resident, died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009, at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. He spent his childhood years in Sanborn and graduated from Sanborn Public School. Read More
• BC Farm Bureau leaders attend state convention
- 12:21 PM — Dec 31 —
- Source: Bandera County Courier - Bandera TX
Bandera voting delegates, Anton Haner and his wife, Marilyn, represented the Bandera County Farm Bureau at the 76th annual Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) convention Dec. 5 through Dec. 7 in Fort Worth. Read More
The costs of replacing Simon Cowell -- and who should do it
- 12:21 PM — Dec 31 —
- Source: USA Today Blogs
Noting that Simon's $50 million-a-year contract was six percent of the show's annual ad revenue in 2008 and that ad revenue slipped from $903.29 million in 2008 to $858.59 million this year, reporter Andrew Hampp writes, "Fewer ad dollars would make it harder for Fox to put up the reported $150 million Mr. Cowell was seeking for his own three-year contract renewal after 2010." Read More
