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Workers mow the grounds at the Dana-Thomas House State Historic Site in Springfield. The Dana-Thomas House is one of the dozen historical sites that will close Oct...
Columbian Bank and Trust of Kansas Closed by U.S. Regulators
By Alison Vekshin and Ari Levy
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Columbian Bank and Trust Co. of Topeka, Kansas, was closed by U.S. regulators, the nation's ninth bank to collapse this year amid bad real-estate loans and writedowns stemming...
flordias got the right idea there,s aclip inside.
Leaders in neighborhood are preparing to take up arms in crime-plagued area and become a "locked and loaded" community -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Police tell owners: 'We're inspecting your guns'
Police tell owners: 'We're inspecting your guns'
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Oklahoma police investigating the shooting deaths of two girls have told area residents with guns to bring them in for a test to determine whether they were used in the attack...
Russian soldiers take prisoners in Georgia port
POTI, Georgia (AP) - Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgian troops prisoner at a key Black Sea port in western Georgia on Tuesday, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the...
Credit crunch may take out large US bank warns former IMF chief
Gary Duncan, Economics Editor and Leo Lewis, Asia Business Correspondent
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;}The deepening toll from the global financial crisis could trigger the...
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What Banks And The Government Are Not Telling Us About 2009—The Next Shoes You Hear Drop May Be Very Loud Ones
James Quinn August 4th 2008
Cutting Edge News Contributor
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
It is time for some straight talk about what America...
Russia Orders ‘Destruction’ of US Naval Armada In Persian Gulf
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
Reports in the Kremlin today are stating that Prime Minister Putin has ordered the Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation to put the Volga-Urals Military District and...
The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West's jugular
By Svetlana Skarbo and Jonathan Petre
Last updated at 1:00 PM on 10th August 2008
The war in Georgia escalated dangerously last night after Russian jets reportedly bombed a vital pipeline that supplies oil to the West.
After a day of...
Hundreds of banks will fail, Roubini tells Barron's
Sun Aug 3, 2008 3:52pm EDT
NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential...
Changes suggested to county's proposed concealed carry law
ROCKFORD —
A public database of who has a concealed carry permit might be out, while bringing a firearm to a county caucus meeting could be in.
Those are a couple of the changes members of a Winnebago County subcommittee suggested...
the govern of California dd the same thing just recently he reduced the state employees down to 6.25 an hour and laid off 22,000 people and he says it will stay that way until they reach a budget.
just keeps getting better and better.
FDIC takes over two more failed banks 28 branches scheduled to reopen Monday as Mutual of Omaha Bank Carson City Sheriff's detective David LeGros locks the door at 1st National Bank of Nevada on Friday, July 25, after federal regulators closed the bank...
Reuters is reporting WaMu has $3.33 bln loss, may be cut to "junk" .
Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. savings and loan, posted a $3.33 billion second-quarter loss on Tuesday as souring mortgages forced it to set aside more money for loan losses.
"We are planning for continued softness...
1. Paulson appears on Face The Nation and says "Our banking system is a safe and a sound one." If the banking system was safe and sound, everyone would know it (or at least think it). There would be no need to say it.
2. Paulson says the list of troubled banks "is a very manageable situation"...