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America is filled with lawyers, and lawyers sue people. Then those people hire more lawyers to ward off the suing lawyers. It’s all gonzo business for lawyers and a nagging little worry for the rest of us.
Most of us will never get sued. Still, it’s worth looking at ways to protect assets in case a […]
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria says a U.S. citizen kidnapped in the country’s oil-rich southern delta has been released.
Spokeswoman Deb MacLean told The Associated Press on Friday the man had been released. She declined to offer any other information.
Police previously said the attack happened in Warri, the capital of Delta state. The […]
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President Barack Obama said he will nominate two former U.S. Treasury Department officials for the Federal Reserve Board, including one who served in a Republican administration.
Jerome Powell, an attorney who was a Treasury undersecretary for former President George H.W. Bush, and Jeremy Stein, a Harvard University economist who has advised the current administration, are […]
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Egypt’s military rulers picked a prime minister from ousted leader Hosni Mubarak’s era to head the next government in a move quickly rejected by tens of thousands of protesters, while the United States ratcheted up pressure on the generals to quickly transfer power to a civilian leadership.
More than 100,000 people packed into Cairo’s central Tahrir […]
Stocks are opening broadly higher after an unexpected drop in unemployment claims and signs of progress in Europe’s debt crisis. The gains came one day after the Dow Jones industrial average sank nearly 400 points.
Concerns about Europe eased slightly after Italy sold debt at borrowing rates that were more favorable than analysts expected. Greece named […]
LMI Aerospace Inc., a St. Charles-based provider of engineering services and components to the aircraft industry, reported net income for the third quarter of $4.1 million, or 35 cents per share, compared with $2.6 million, or 23 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2010. Sales of $64.8 million in the third quarter were […]