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Colleen Barrett scaling back to just 'Mom' at Southwest...

Posted in by admin on Tue, 2008-07-15 04:05

The mom of Southwest Airlines Co. is about to become mom emeritus.To call Colleen Barrett "Mom" might seem demeaning, considering that she has been the highest-ranking woman in the airline industry for years, even before she was named president of Dallas-based Southwest in 2001.

BRANDON THIBODEAUX/Special Contributor Colleen Barrett is stepping down today as Southwest Airlines president but...
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Trial opens in suit challenging Marlins ballpark...

Posted in by admin on Mon, 2008-07-14 18:05

Bob Martinez, a former U.S. attorney representing wealthy auto dealer Norman Braman, said the $3 billion so-called "megaplan" that includes the stadium money would improperly siphon funds from accounts created to address urban blight and develop impoverished areas of the city.

"What you get at the end of the day is really one big shell game," Martinez said in an opening statement. "The co...

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Pre-service crimes often go uncited when vets claim PTSD...

Posted in by admin on Mon, 2008-07-14 04:05

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Police Mutiny-II (Nepal Turning Into Lawless Land)...

Posted in by admin on Sun, 2008-07-13 18:05

An emergency cabinet meeting today evening decided to take every possible legal measure to bring the situation at the Nepalgunj based Riot Control Police Battalion under control. The cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Baluwatar directed the Home Ministry to tame the situation at Nepalgunj police battalion where seven police personnel are being held hostage by junior...

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New laws ban texting by drivers, restricts phone use...

Posted in by admin on Sun, 2008-07-13 08:05

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Miami Doctor Sentenced To Prison For Medicare Fraud - US Attorney...

Posted in by admin on Sun, 2008-07-13 04:05

- Former Nixon White House adviser John D. Ehrlichman is convicted of a charge connected with his supervision of the "plumbers," a covert group aimed at stopping press leaks.

- Boris Yeltsin, chairman of the Russian congress of deputies, announces to a meeting of the Soviet Communist Party that he is resigning from the party....

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Clayton DA Scott faces 2 rivals...

Posted in by admin on Sat, 2008-07-12 18:05

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Judge dismisses e-mail access lawsuit...

Posted in by admin on Sat, 2008-07-12 04:05

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JEFFERSON CITY A judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking access to thousands of e-mails from the governor's office but also gave the plaintiff time to amend his case.

Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan ruled that the plaintiff, former Missouri Highway Patrol Chief Mel Fisher, did not have standing to bri...

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SYSCO Promotes Pulliam and Valentine to Vice President...

Posted in by admin on Fri, 2008-07-11 04:05

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French man pleads guilty in art theft case...

Posted in by admin on Thu, 2008-07-10 18:05

MIAMI (AP) -- A French man pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to sell four valuable paintings that were stolen last year from a French art museum in a brazen robbery by masked, armed thieves.

Bernard Jean Ternus, 56, admitted that he conspired to sell the paintings for about $4.7 million to buyers who turned out to be undercover FBI and French police agents. Four of their meetings were...

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