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- BA Seeks Chief Operations Officer
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - British Airways BAY is seeking to fill a new role of chief operations officer to replace two executives who quit in the wake of the Heathrow Terminal 5 fiasco. A British Airways spokeswoman said the airline company was looking at a...
- News items 2008-05-11
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- Texas officials drafting plans for FLDS children
- Texas child welfare authorities have begun drafting service plans for the children taken from the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch. "It's the plan that has to address the permanency," said Mary Walker, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. "Whether or not children...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Couple sues Wachovia over Missouri Higher Educational Loan Authority
- Clyde and Linda Jenkins wanted their money in a safe place where they'd have easy access to cash. So when an A.G. Edwards broker told them Missouri Higher Educational Loan Authority auction-rate securities were liquid, AAA-rated and insured, the couple put most of their retirement savings into the securities. ...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Police probe Steaua Bucharest's 1m euro cash 'bonus'
- BUCHAREST AFP — Five people were arrested here Wednesday after police found a suitcase containing one million euros in cash reportedly put up by Steaua Bucharest in a bid to help them win the title. Investigators suspect the cash haul was offered by Steaua to Universitatea Cluj on...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- US: Still no word on access to Myanmar
- WASHINGTON AFP — The White House said Wednesday that Myanmar had still not answered its offers of aid for cyclone-ravaged areas, and warned that such a silence risked hampering relief efforts. "Everybody can understand that there is no substitute for being there on the ground to help people...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Bush looks forward to working with Medvedev: White House
- WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush looks forward to working with new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and will soon telephone to offer his congratulations, the White House said Wednesday. "He looks forward to working with him and wishes him the best on his new position" spokeswoman...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Shoe firm tripped up
- By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Collective Brands, owner of Payless ShoeSource, plans to fight a $305 million judgment for what a jury determined was a violation of Adidas' trademarked three-stripe logo. James Grant, spokesman for Collective Brands in Topeka, called the...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Shoe firm tripped up
- By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Collective Brands, owner of Payless ShoeSource, plans to fight a $305 million judgment for what a jury determined was a violation of Adidas' trademarked three-stripe logo. James Grant, spokesman for Collective Brands in Topeka, called the...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Lautenberg agrees to debate Andrews on public television
- There's been significant movement in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary's debate over debates. U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg has accepted an offer to debate on New Jersey Network, a statewide public television station. Earlier this week Lautenberg explained his hesitation to debate challenger U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews. He said "it has...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- World Folkfest is dancing once more
- SPRINGVILLE -- Last summer, when the board members, volunteer staff and hosts realized the annual World Folkfest was going to be canceled, there was a collective sigh. Admittedly, some sighed in relief because pulling the weeklong event together "is an insane amount of work," said Christie Babbitt,...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- 'American Idol' singer sparking ticket sales
- OREM -- It's not on her Web site yet, but 2007 "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks is scheduled to appear at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre on June 25. At age 17, she was the youngest winner ever on the reality television vocal competition. (The youngest age...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Georgia resumes executions
- JACKSON, Ga. -- A Georgia man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed Tuesday, the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections. William Earl Lynd was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m. EDT, Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Mallie...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- EU food safety body takes new look at baby bottle chemical
- ROME AFP — The EU food safety watchdog EFSA said Tuesday it may review its clearance of bisphenol A for use in the manufacture of plastic baby bottles after Canada moved to ban the substance. "EFSA is aware of the studies on bisphenol published in the United States...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- US urges end to Russian 'provocations' in Georgian regions
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States bluntly urged Russia on Tuesday to "cease from further provocations" in Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia amid worries that rising tensions might lead to war. "We again call on the Russian government to reiterate its commitment to Georgia's territorial...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- China's SVA Group to withdraw from joint venture with Nippon Life: report
- SHANGHAI AFP — Chinese consumer electronics maker SVA Group plans to withdraw from a struggling life insurance joint venture with Japan's Nippon Life Insurance, state media said Wednesday. A major state-run asset management company will take over SVA's 50 percent stake in Nissay-SVA Life Insurance Co Ltd, the...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- US executions resume after seven-month hiatus
- WASHINGTON, AFP — Authorities in the US state of Georgia ended a seven-month hiatus on executions in the United States, putting to death convicted murderer William Lynd for killing his girlfriend in 1988. Lynd, 53, became the first person executed in the United States since a death row...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Passengers leave stranded liner
- European News IN BRIEF *RIGA Passengers on a stranded cruise ship have been taken off the vessel after tugs failed to pull the liner off an underwater sand bank in the Baltic Sea. The 651 passengers and 11 crew members were transferred from the Mona Lisa on...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Hospital to give up addiction program
- The Capital-Journal St. Francis Health Center will close its outpatient addiction treatment program on June 1, eliminating five staff members and referring 40 patients to other programs. Kim Gronniger, spokeswoman for St. Francis, said management decided to close The Recovery Center at St. Francis,...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Merck to cut 1,200 sales jobs after setbacks
- Merck & Co. Inc. announced yesterday that it would cut 1,200 sales jobs across the country after recent product delays and as part of an ongoing restructuring drive. Merck declined to say how many, if any, job reductions would come at its manufacturing and research facility centered in West Point,...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Enrollment period for students expanded
- A law that may make it easier for families in some districts to transfer their children to public schools outside of their neighborhoods went into effect Monday. HB349 expands the enrollment period for students looking to transfer schools, lays out more uniform enrollment thresholds and requires schools...
- Articles 2008-05-06
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