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Invest $10,000 in the average one-year bank CD these days and, thanks to the magic of compound interest compounding, you'll earn bupkis by this time next year.
Tiger tops his own AT&T National tournament
Jaws, it ain't.
The national economic downturn that most observers didn't note until last fall had not significantly dinged the city's ledger. Until now.
After the raging blog activity surrounding the launch of iPhone OS 3.0 and the new iPhone 3GS, the Apple-focused blogosphere has finally slowed down to catch its collective breath. Still, there's plenty to talk about, like Michael Jackson music sales going through the roof on iTunes, CEO Steve Jobs returning to Apple's Cupertino campus and the Mac mini's relatively high build cost.
Alliance police arrested a city wedding photographer accused of stiffing nine couples out of albums from their trips down the altar. Melanie L. Schoolcraft, 24, of 106 W. Main St., was served Tuesday with a warrant for grand theft, a fourth-degree felony.
Let the punishment fit the crime! Poor Bernie. The man has been ordered to spend 150 years in the hoosegow. What for? Who did he kill? A century and a half seems a little excessive for a financial crime. You could hold up three liquor stores and rape a whole convent and still not get 150 years.
One strategy that looks attractive right now is actually incredibly bad.
The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed 15.2% in the period -- its largest gain for any quarter since 1998. Fear finally gave way to sustained hope on Wall Street in the last three months, lifting major stock indexes to their first quarterly advance in nearly two years.
The new "improved work ethic" JaMarcus Russell pulls a no-show as Raiders close out OTA's.
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