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Gold soared to a record high Friday, breaching the key $1,300-an-ounce level, and silver traded at a 30-year high, amid persistent worries about the recovery.
After reaching a peak of $1,301.30 an ounce, gold for December deliver — the most active contract — eased to $1,298.10 an ounce, up $1.80 over the prior day’s close. […]
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The Wichita Flight Festival and McConnell Air Force Base Open House and Air Show will be held Saturday and Sunday.
Here is a press release from the base with a tentative schedule of events:
MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, KAN. — With the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds as headliners, more than four hours of flying are scheduled for […]
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If Verizon Wireless gets to sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone in the first quarter, about 1 in 4 current AT&T customers, about 1.4 million subscribers, said they would switch carriers, a new report said.
A survey by Credit Suisse shows 23 percent of AT&T iPhone users said they would make the switch, with about 3 percent saying […]
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Regal Beloit Corp. announced Friday that it has appointed Charles Hinrichs as vice president and chief financial officer, effective Sept. 20.
Hinrichs will report directly to Henry Knueppel, Regal Beloit’s chairman and CEO. He replaces David Barta, who left Regal Beloit earlier this year to become CFO for Cooper Industries plc, the parent company of Cooper […]
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Accused Ponzi scheme operator Shawn Merriman awaits sentencing in federal court Tuesday.
The Aurora man pleaded guilty last Dec. 2 to felony mail fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
In his plea agreement, Merriman admitted that he operated a Ponzi scheme, which according to prosecutors bilked at least 68 investors out of […]
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In an effort to end the controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic center in lower Manhattan, real estate mogul Donald Trump has offered to buy the property at a 25% premium.
Trump made the offer Thursday in a letter to Hisham Elzanaty, an investor in the Islamic center site.
"I am making this offer as a resident […]
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Americans aren’t known for their energy-thrift ways. Maybe that’s because they have little idea as to how much energy things use.
While people are generally able to rank items according to energy use - i.e. the dryer uses more than the toaster - they are way off the mark when it comes to gauging by […]
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The Dallas-Fort Worth area had 73 workplace fatalities in 2009, a 14 percent increase from last year when 64 D-FW area residents died at work.
The Southwest Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor reported those statistics Thursday. The agency also said workplace fatalities grew across the state. Texas had 480 workplace fatalities last year, […]
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