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U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 10, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- American Airlines canceled more than 900 flights Thursday to fix faulty wiring in hundreds of jets, marking the third straight day of mass groundings as company executives offered profuse apologies and travel vouchers to calm angry customers. American,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 4:37pm neoform

Washington Post -- An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been eaten by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, officials with the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday. The c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

New York Times -- The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 10:42pm neoform

Reuters -- The chief executive and part owner of Alaska's largest oil-field services company and one of his vice presidents pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that they tried to bribe Alaska legislators to secure favorable state oil policies. VECO Corp. Chief Ex.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 11:26pm neoform

SF Gate -- The city's insurance company has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims from about 175 people who were wrongly arrested during a peaceful World Trade Organization protest in 1999. The case went to trial in January, and a federal jury found Seattle l.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 24, 2007 @ 12:10pm neoform

Washington Post -- Milk from cloned cows is not welcome at the nation's biggest milk company. Although the government has approved meat and milk from cloned animals while it conducts further studies, Dean Foods Co. of Dallas said Thursday that its customers and consumers.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 3:00pm mrmdc

SF Gate -- State Farm Insurance Cos. is suspending sales of any new commercial or homeowner policies in Mississippi starting Friday, citing in part a wave of litigation it has faced since Hurricane Katrina, a company official said Wednesday. Mike Fernandez, vice.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 12:40am neoform

CNET -- The nation's soon-to-be largest telephone company may have caved to certain Net neutrality commitments for the sake of a merger blessing, but a renewed push for more sweeping rules could return to Capitol Hill as soon as this month... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 2:31am neoform

NPR -- A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence betw.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 15, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The city of San Francisco is poised to spend millions of dollars extra to hire a sewage-hauling company that failed to meet the city's criteria despite offers from a competitor that wants to do the dirty work for less. The Board of Supervisors is expec.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 8, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- After a low-turnout election that still might take weeks to resolve, San Francisco is preparing to sue the company that supplied its voting machines. City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a notice of default Wednesday, arguing that Nebraska-based Election.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

FOX News -- Two senators want to know why a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund appropriated by Congress to help ailing ground zero workers has not been used to compensate those exposed to harmful substances. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 10:39pm neoform

FOX News -- Fidelity National Information Services, a financial processing company, said Tuesday a worker at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information. Fidelity National Services.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 12:38pm neoform

FOX News -- A union representing 570 space shuttle program workers at the Kennedy Space Center voted to strike Saturday, less than a week before the planned launch of the shuttle Atlantis. The International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers, which rep.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:32am neoform

Yahoo News -- Four people billed a health insurance company for 20 brain operations that were never performed on them, sometimes for the same person on multiple occasions, authorities said. One 36-year-old man from New York City claimed nine brain surgeries for hims.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

FOX News -- A former Wal-Mart cashier says he was fired for joking on his MySpace page that the average IQ would increase if a bomb were dropped on the company's stores. David Noordewier said he was fired Feb. 27 for posting the message, which he said was a joke a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 8:52pm neoform

FOX News -- A meat company is recalling nearly 130-thousand pounds of beef products in 15 states because of possible E. coli contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat products were made in March and April by Davis Creek Meats and Seafood, bas.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 8, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

CNN -- The founder of a multinational oil services company and one of his top executives have admitted to illegally paying more than $400,000 to Alaska lawmakers in a widening political corruption scandal. Bill J. Allen, chief executive of Anchorage-based VEC.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 12:09am neoform

FOX News -- Daddies, it seems, can forgive their little girls for just about anything — especially when there's an insurance company to fall back on. That seems to be the case of a Marietta, Ga., father who not only was willing to forgive his then 19-year-old da.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 15, 2006 @ 4:07pm neoform

CBC -- A hometown company's satirical holiday card features Cleveland's ranking as America's poorest big city... Read More