Published by Admin on 28th January 2012
CARSON CITY, Nev. Tickets to sporting events, star-studded award shows, hotel accommodations, travel and clothes were among gifts reported by some of Nevadas highest elected officials on recent financial disclosure statements.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/zW4YHr) reported Thursday that of Nevadas constitutional officers, Secretary of State Ross Miller received the most $15,622 that included $9,600 for a CEO Leadership Group membership fee.
Miller also reported $120 in Wolfpack football tickets from lobbyist Alfredo Alonso; $350 from NV Energy to the Reno-Tahoe Open; and $150 from ATamp;T to attend the Bobby Dolan baseball dinner, a fundraising event for the University...
Published by Admin on 27th January 2012
Alleged Auburn tree poisoner Harvey Updyke reportedly rejected a plea deal that would have put him in prison for 13 years and prevented him from attending Alabama sports events.
Updyke is scheduled to go to trial in March on four felony charges and two misdemeanors. He pleaded not guilty on all counts for reasons of mental disease or defect. He reportedly could face up to 10 years in prison for each felony charge and as much as a one-year sentence and $2,000 fine on each misdemeanor.
Not that we would expect Harvey to agree to a 13-year prison sentence, but I have to figure being barred from Alabama sporting events was the deal breaker. He was in New Orleans for the National...
Published by Admin on 27th January 2012
When the Kansas Digital Library Consortiums contract with digital-content distributor OverDrive was up for renewal last year, two issues made Kansas State Librarian Joanne Budler decide it was time to move on and transfer the ebook titles to another vendor who could offer a better deal. First, OverDrive planned to raise license fees by almost 700% by 2014. But even more disturbing was a change to the contract that would have changed the consortiums ownership of the ebooks to a subscription.
OverDrive said that the libraries had only leased access; they did not own the books, and therefore could not retain access when they changed providers. The Kansas attorney generals office argued...
Published by Admin on 26th January 2012
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On Wednesday Metallica Add New Summer Vacation Tour Date was a top story. Here is the recap: Fans across the pond will be celebrating a Metallica Black Album summer in 2012. The band has been rolling out the dates and this week jokingly announced the latest addition with this message:
Were baaaaccckk!! Welcome to the 2012 edition of the one show at a time tour announcements. Todays installment finds us traveling to Paris on May 12 as we continue to extend our summer vacation with a show at Stade de France.
And in keeping with the theme of the summer, we will be performing the Black Album in its entirety… just another anniversary...
Published by Admin on 26th January 2012
into the debt markets.
New York buyout firm KKR Co. LP is redoubling its efforts in the credit business. Erik Falk, co-head of leveraged credit operations at KKR Asset Management, said the firm is planning a major senior lending initiative for 2012, following the close in October of a $1 billion mezzanine fund, its first such pool.
Meantime, CVC Capital Partners announced a deal this month with asset manager Resource America Inc to form a $7.5 billion-asset credit business by combining two of their existing lending operations. That follows news in December that Apollo Global Management LLC planned to buy credit investor Stone Tower Capital LLC, while in November...
Published by Admin on 25th January 2012
News International, parent company of the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, faces an FBI investigation after new information surfaced about phone hacking that potentially occurred in the United States. News International is a British subsidiary of News Corp.
On Thursday, News International settled multiple lawsuits filed by 37 victims of phone hacking. Among the victims was famed British actor, Jude Law.
News International accepted that a 2003 News of the World story about Law grew out of phone hacking. The story referenced phone calls Laws assistant made to him while he was at an airport. Authorities have now come to believe that airport was John F. Kennedy International...
Published by Admin on 25th January 2012
TREASURE VALLEY – All Boise School District elementary-school
basketball games have been canceled today due to snowfall.
The College of Western Idaho closed all of its campuses today at
noon with plans to resume classes tomorrow.
Published by Admin on 24th January 2012
Not bad considering this was Montanas vacation home while he wasnt in Southern California, where he and his wife Jennifer reside just outside Los Angeles.
Montana, of course, is best known as one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all time — he was an eight-time Pro Bowler with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. He now owns his own wine label, Montagia, and has four children — two are currently playing college football.
[Related: Doug Fluties daughter now New England Patriots cheerleader]
Who knows — if current 49ers quarterback Alex Smith continues playing the way he has and he leads the Niners to their first Super Bowl in nearly...
Published by Admin on 23rd January 2012
A charity that has been organising international sporting events for two decades to raise vital funds for people with learning disabilities in London and the South East is aiming to celebrate the milestone by making this years calendar of events its biggest and best yet.
Norwood, which provides personalised services to people with learning disabilities, staged its first international bike ride in Israel in 1992 and has gone on to raise £16 million over the last 20 years as part of its Challenges programme.
The charity has organised bike rides in Sri Lanka, Croatia and Israel this year, as well as an event exclusively for Young Norwood supporters in Sicily.
There...
Published by Admin on 23rd January 2012
by Mariana Silva | Reporter
Munroe Falls — An ordinance to allow for up to four weeks paid vacation to department heads is now before City Council.
During a City Council meeting on Jan. 16, Council members observed the first reading of a proposed ordinance that would allow for the finance director, and police and fire chiefs to receive up to four weeks of paid vacation regardless of time of service.
According to the ordinance, that will allow the city to be more competitive when hiring and retaining experienced department heads.
We cant compete, said Mayor Frank Larson to City Council. He added it is not easy to find people with several years of experience...
