An Arkansas man was
sentenced today to 70 years in prison for producing and transporting child
pornography, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division
Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney of the Western District of Arkansas Robert
C. Balfe announced. Brian Bergthold, 45...
As Typhoon Nuri, with winds
over 100 mph, approaches Hong Kong and the east coast of China, the American
Red Cross stands ready to help people affected by the storm. The American Red
Cross, with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies and the Red Cross Soci...
Mr. Steven V. Cleaves, has been
appointed Chief Financial Officer for the Lima Energy Company which is
building an ultra clean high tech BTU Conversion facility in Lima, OH. Mr.
Cleaves has had a 25 year career with Saudi Aramco including a series of
senior finance positions reporting ...
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today
the addition of the fourth complete album to the Rock Band(TM) Music Store
catalog of downloadable content. Available August 26, Rush's biggest selling
album, Moving Pictures, will be added to the Rock Band DLC catalog giving rock
fans the opport...
A Brazilian man was charged by a federal grand jury in New Orleans for his role in a conspiracy to sell a network of computers infected with malicious software, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern Di...
Bancolombia S.A.
("Bancolombia") successfully completed the issuance and offering of Bonos
Ordinarios Bancolombia (the "Bancolombia Ordinary Notes") for an aggregate
principal amount of six hundred billion pesos (Ps. 600,000,000,000). This
issuance and offering is the second of multipl...
New this year, the Muscular Dystrophy Association will launch its first-ever national online auction at www.mda.org/auctions in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. The auction, beginning today, features an impressive array of unique specialty items, wit...
Managers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., plan to reopen the center for normal operations Friday morning for workers' first shift. A slow-moving Tropical Storm Fay has kept Kennedy closed since Tuesday. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex also will reopen Friday.
GOL Linhas Aereas
Inteligentes S.A. (NYSE: GOL and Bovespa: GOLL4), the parent company of
Brazilian airlines GOL Transportes Aereos S.A. ("GTA") and VRG Linhas Aereas
S.A. ("VRG"), announces that its CEO, Constantino de Oliveira Junior, has been
awarded the GALA (Latin American Aeronau...
Two individuals and two corporations pleaded guilty today in Brooklyn, N.Y., to charges of trafficking in counterfeit Colgate toothpaste, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Benton J. Campbell for the Eastern District of New Yo...
ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) will stage two events at the Democratic National Convention: A non-partisan voter registration mobilization on Sunday and a "Bagels and Ballots" breakfast and conversation on Wednesday.
The Green Constitutional Congress: A
Symposium of the Future of Environmental Action will bring together the most
influential grass-roots and policy players of the sustainability movement, and
will be held on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Monday
August 25, 2008 a...
The Alaska Seafood Marketing
Institute (ASMI) and Food Network's Alton Brown have joined forces to help
clear up consumer confusion on what sustainability really is, and explain how
this concept has guided the Alaska seafood industry for more than 50 years.
The five-minute video can be...
On-line, everyone can hear you. A new project called My California Story (MyCAStory.org) is helping Californians that will be hurt by the current California budget crisis tell their stories online so that others can share their challenges. Inspired by everything from YouTube to an old-...
Cogdell Spencer Inc.
(NYSE: CSA) announced today that it has signed a joint venture operating
agreement with Northwestern Mutual to form CSA Medical Partners LLC, a joint
venture to acquire medical office buildings.
The American Trucking Associations today announced its support for a bipartisan comprehensive energy bill that calls for domestic oil drilling, tax incentives and alternative energy research to lower the price of fuel for the nation's 3.5 million truck drivers and American consumers.
United is launching a trial
during the fourth quarter of food options for both business and economy class.
As part of the trial, on domestic flights with three cabins of service, United
will be offering United Business customers complimentary fresh sandwiches,
salads, snack boxes or sn...
BancTec, a global provider of advanced,
high-volume document and payment processing solutions and services, will
feature its next generation global platform for managing multiple streams of
in-bound information -- CenterVision(TM) -- at the TAWPI 2008 Forums and Expo,
August 24-27 at D...
The President of the National Medical Association, Carolyn Barley Britton, M.D., M.S. sends condolences to the family of Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
Cryo-Cell International,
Inc. and EndGenitor Technologies, Inc. are pleased to announce a new research
collaboration to co-develop a combined cellular platform therapeutic for
rapidly forming vasculature in injured tissues. Currently, intense research
into the mechanisms of initiation ...
Getting the CEO to gush about your
hotel is every hotel manager's dream. Today, J.W. Marriott, Jr., chairman and
CEO, Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) visited the newly reinvented
Courtyard at Baltimore Washington International Airport to see the brand's
stylish and modern new...
Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) offered a new proposed regulation that increases awareness of, and complies with, three statutes on the books that protect federally funded health care providers' right of conscience.
Foundation 9 Entertainment today
announced that it will showcase Monster Lab for the Wii(TM), Gauntlet(TM) for
Nintendo DS(TM) and Chimps Ahoy! for the iPhone(R) at the Penny Arcade Expo
(PAX), taking place Aug. 29-31 at the Washington State Convention & Trade
Center in Seattle, Wash. ...
GateHouse Media, Inc.
(NYSE: GHS) announced today the appointment of Mark Maring as interim CFO.
Mr. Maring currently serves as Vice President Investor Relations and Strategic
Development and will continue to oversee these responsibilities. Mr. Maring
replaces Mark Thompson, who has r...
Pillar Rock USA Corp., finalist
for the HIA 2008 Rookie of the Year Business Achievement Award in Long Island
N.Y., conducted a study of drinking behavior and comparison of available
hangover remedies in the market.
Mid-America Apartment
Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA) today announced that its board of directors had
approved a quarterly common dividend of $0.615 per share payable on October
31, 2008 to shareholders of record on October 15, 2008.
There is a reason Colorado
(http://www.colorado.com) begins with "color." Mother Nature has blessed the
state with unrivaled beauty, especially during the fall months when the
mountains dazzle with orange and yellow aspen tree leaves. With a variety of
fun festivals, harvest celebrat...
Today, Governor Ted Strickland and Lt. Governor Lee Fisher announced their opposition to Issue 4, the mandatory sick leave measure. Both men committed to work toward the defeat of the measure on the November ballot.
SpongeTech(R) Delivery System
Inc.'s (OTC Bulletin Board: SPNG, www.spongetech.com) Uncle Norman's(TM) Pet
Sponge will be featured on Lifetime Network's The Balancing Act, a daily
morning talk show for working women, Friday, August 22, 2008, at 7:00AM
EDT/6:00AM CDT. SpongeTech(R) is a...
Federal regulations protecting health care providers' conscience rights were released for public comment August 21, by Secretary Michael Leavitt of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The U.S. Catholic bishops' spokesperson on abortion, Deirdre A. McQuade, welcomed the p...
Dangerous disease often spreads faster than it takes to diagnose it in the lab. To remedy that, researchers at Kansas State University have developed a test to bring that time from days down to hours.
A research team headed by Kansas State University E. coli O157:H7 expert T.G. Nagaraja has been tapped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study both the connection between feeding distillers' grains and E. coli 0157:H7 in cattle and several strategies to reduce the presence of th...
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