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U.S. attorney: Gift-giving Madoff should be kept in jail
Published January 7, 2009, 9:56 pm, Times Leader
NEW YORK — Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff and his wife sent at least 16 watches, a jade necklace and a diamond bracelet to family and relatives, proving he will continue to dissipate what little is left from his $50 billion fraud, a prosecutor told a judge in arguing that Madoff be jailed.
Council likely to OK new homes
Published January 7, 2009, 9:54 pm, The Post and Courier
SUMMERVILLE — Despite a shaky economy that's put the brakes on a once-booming building industry, Town Council is set to approve plans for 930 more new houses. The IDEA Real Estate Group, which has offices in Farmington Hills, Mich., and Charleston, wants the town to annex 332 acres behind the S.C. Coastal Rehabilitation Center on Miles Jamison Road for a planned-unit development called Pine Trace.
Crazy weather hits Southeast
Published January 7, 2009, 9:52 pm, The Post and Courier
Heavy rains flooded the South on Wednesday from a rainstorm sweeping the nation. But the Lowcountry saw little more than strong gusts of wind.
Hefty Returns for Biggest Loser
Published January 7, 2009, 9:51 pm, New York Times
NBC won big in the ratings with ?The Biggest Loser? on Tuesday. According to Nielsen?s estimates, the seventh-edition premiere of the reality weight-loss competition drew Tuesday?s highest ratings among viewers 18 to 49 and a series record 11.8 million total viewers. CBS earned the night?s largest audiences with ?NCIS? (19.1 million), ?The Mentalist? (19.6 million), and ?Without a Trace? (13.2 ...
Water free of arsenic
Published January 7, 2009, 9:50 pm, Daily Chronicle
Hinckley-Big Rock Middle School’s water is officially free of arsenic, district officials said Wednesday.
The legend of Carey Hilliard's
Published January 7, 2009, 9:50 pm, The Post and Courier
The last Carey Hilliard's Restaurant closed this week. There once were two, one on Sam Rittenburg Boulevard and one on Rivers Avenue, but the economy has taken its toll.
Lead Us Lest Too Far We Wander
Published January 7, 2009, 9:49 pm, New York Times
?Morgan Sills Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook? is a gossipy, superficial 30-song centennial anthology that plays through the end of January at the Metropolitan Room.
Bomb threat at courthouse investigated
Published January 7, 2009, 9:47 pm, The Joplin Globe
COLUMBUS, Kan. — The Cherokee County Courthouse was evacuated Wednesday after the sixth bomb threat since 2005. Columbus police Chief Chuck Sharp said a caller to a dispatcher at the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department, which is not housed in the courthouse, said there was a bomb in the courthouse.
Alison Benjamin reports on a proposed business park for social enterprises and co-operatives in Spain
Published January 7, 2009, 9:32 pm, Guardian Unlimited
High in the hills of Spain's Basque region, an experiment is taking place that could determine how we tackle social problems in the future. At a time when governments, economists and businesspeople are desperately looking for new solutions to deliver us from a recession and meet pressing social needs, Carlos Fernández Isoird and Inigo Urkidi think they have the answer. Their new social ...
When religion and art overlapped along the ancient Silk Route
Published January 7, 2009, 9:25 pm, New Kerala
Shakti or Durga, Hindu god Shiva's consort, was worshipped in the ancient Khotan region of China in the 7th century AD, reveals a new book that traces how Buddhism and Hinduism flourished together in China, India and Central Asia along the ancient Silk Route.
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