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State police: Ex-Pa. judge stole coke from cases
A western Pennsylvania judge who abruptly resigned last year was charged Thursday with stealing cocaine from evidence in cases before him. The state police say the charges against former Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky will be prosecuted by the state attorney general, though the spokesman for that office, Dennis Fisher, ...
Between economy and trouble, Obama approval steady
The economy is recovering, the White House is dealing with multiple controversies, and President Barack Obama appears generally unaffected either way. He's getting no significant uptick in approval from gains in housing, jobs and the stock market. Likewise, he has so far seen no downtick from the recent storms over ...
Stocks mixed as investors reassess Fed worries
Investors recovered their poise by midday Thursday after an early sell-off sent stocks sharply lower. U.S. markets fell immediately after the opening bell following a global slump prompted in part by an unexpectedly weak report on manufacturing in China. Concern that the Federal Reserve might ease back on its economic ...
Top 50 highest-paid CEOs
A look at the 50 highest-paid CEOs of 2012, as calculated by executive pay research firm Equilar. 1. Leslie Moonves, CBS, $60.3 million, down 12 percent 2. David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $49.9 million, down 5 percent 3. Bob Iger, Disney, $37.1 million, up 18 percent 4. Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $33.4 ...
Fired Md. firefighter claims gender bias
A former Sykesville firefighter claims that gender discrimination led to her firing after she took time off for pregnancy and the birth of her son. The Carroll County Times reports that Robin Lancaster of Westminster filed the complaint against the Sykesville-Freedom District Fire Department in state court last month. It ...
Applications for US unemployment aid fall to 340K
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth. The less volatile four-week average ticked down just 500 to 339,500, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's close to the five-year low of 338,000 reached during ...
Winslow company accused of labor violations
Labor groups have accused a Winslow-based aluminum trailer manufacturer of illegally firing employees for trying to unionize. Matt Schlobohm, executive director of the Maine AFL-CIO, says five employees at Alcom Inc. have been fired this month in connection with efforts to form a union to negotiate better pay, benefits and ...
House passes GOP bill to speed pipeline approval
House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review. The bill was approved, 241-175, largely along party lines. ...
HP's 2Q offers hope even as revenue slump deepens
Hewlett-Packard is still scrambling to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices as a slump in its personal computer sales deepens, but the company's cost-cutting measures and focus on more profitable areas of technology appear to be easing the pain. The conflicting signs of further ...
Union power at issue as Garcetti elected LA mayor
The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California as unions nationwide face threats to their clout. With all precincts reporting Wednesday, ...
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