Posted on 22 June 2009
Tesla Motors Inc. is one of the leaders in the electric car movement and is primed to report corporate profits as soon as next month. In 2007, a new manufacturing agreement brought costs down nearly 50% coupled with the demand for the Tesla Motors Roadster sports car, the company is in high spirits for fiscal success.
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Posted on 24 February 2009
It’s the first ruling of it’s kind.
On Monday, a Senior U.S. District Judge ordered Alan Hesketh, a resident of Stonington, Connecticut and vice president of New York-based Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, to pay about $200,000 in restitution to a woman who was photographed being sexually abused when she was a child.
Judge Warren [...]
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Posted on 23 February 2009
Last Thursday, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman confirmed that it will be conducting layoffs after the legal blog Above the Law posted an anonymous tipsters detailed description of a loud cell phone conversation in a public place between two senior managers regarding the reductions.
“The call apparently took place between Robert Robbins, head of the corporate [...]
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Posted on 20 February 2009
Pennsylvania Filmmaker George Kalman tried to register his company “I Choose Hell” productions as a business in 2007. His request was turned down due to a state law prohibiting names that contain blasphemy or profanity.
Well on Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s Department of State, contending that the statute is [...]
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Posted on 30 January 2009
And the wedding crasher was the brides sister. Family dysfunction at its finest.
Twenty-three-year-old Annmarie Bricker of Valparaiso faces a misdemeanor battery charge for last Friday’s attack outside a Porter County home.
The Porter County Sheriff’s Department says a friend was hosting a reception for Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes - Bricker’s sister - when Bricker attacked [...]
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Posted on 23 January 2009
I don’t know how this one slipped by me…
In early November, 52 year old Michael E. Schwab rear-ended a woman’s sedan on a San Antonio freeway and sheriff’s officials say that he said it was Jesus’ will because the other motorist was not “driving like a Christian.”
“Schwab told first responders at the scene that “the [...]
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Posted on 22 January 2009
The legendary actress is supposedly facing financial ruin after “investing” with the fraudster Bernard Madoff. She was one of many stars affected by the scandal. Madoff allegedly siphoned billions of dollars from her and other big Hollywood names.
“Gabor, 91, and her ninth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, have revealed Madoff’s scam has also cost them [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009
A 19 year old man, Zachary Moir, was arrested for assaulting his own mother…. with a taco. Dena Moir said her son got out of control last Wednesday night when she was calling him down for dinner.
“When he refused to stop playing his X-box and come down for dinner, Dena Moir says she went upstairs [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009
On Wednesday, October 9th, The First Southern Bank in St. Louis Missouri was robbed of about $22,000 cash by two men who concealed their identity under motorcycle helmets. Upon further investigation, it became “abundantly clear a police officer was involved.”
Well this past Wednesday, the police officer James D. Gaddis, 26, was arrested without incident and [...]
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Posted on 17 January 2009
John Rempel is another man added to the list of suckers that have fallen for the Nigerian Email Scam. Though he didnt lose as much as the woman that lost $400,000 in the same type of scam, his might actually be an even worse scenario. He flew overseas, and corresponded in person with his scammers…
A [...]
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