DETROIT (AP) — A contractor accused of paying kickbacks to get business from Detroit schools pleaded guilty Wednesday and said 12 principals and an administrator charged in the scheme conspired with him to get gift cards or cash.
Chancellor Dan Klaich will offer his resignation Thursday during a special meeting of the University of Nevada Board of Regents. In an agreement forged after ...
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"There's this thought out there that in business, you have to crawl over broken glass to succeed — you've got to kill the other guy," JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said during an interview on CNBC’s "Squawk Box" Wednesday.
But the reality, he says, is that "people have to learn to work together. Sometimes it's more about heart than it is mind."
Dimon, an investor in KFC and Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands — which has a market cap of $34.6 billion... Читать дальше...
At a meeting a here on Wednesday, Ibrahim said: "Somebody should be held accountable for the deaths.
Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Blue skies, orange sunsets, salt water kayaking, island hiking and Washington beer…. If this sounds like a dream, well it seems like one to me too. But it was reality last week as Kendall and I hosted a week-long beer-themed cruise on Salish Sea waters aboard the... The post 5 Beautiful Things About Beer Cruising with Un-Cruise appeared first on Beer News.
A recommendation from an Egyptian judge to execute three journalists, including two from the news network Al-Jazeera, has been condemned by the advocacy group Committee to Protect Journalists.
Five Melbourne men suspected of trying to travel to Indonesia on a seven-metre fishing boat in a bid to get to Syria could be kept in custody under an application being prepared by federal police.
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Earl Forrest, 66, died by injection for the Dec. 2002 deaths of Harriett Smith, Michael Wells and Dent County Sheriff’s Deputy Joann Barnes.
NEW YORK (AP) — A Francis Bacon double-panel self-portrait and a Cy Twombly "Blackboard" painting executed in blue — both in private collections for decades — were the highlights of Sotheby's auction of contemporary art on Wednesday.
Police officers punched a wanted man who had surrendered after a high-speed, two-state pursuit led them to Nashua, N.H., Wednesday.
The dog, a veteran NYPD canine named for a famed villain from the movie “Escape from New York,” was put to rest Wednesday.
William Gadoury, 15, has found what he believes could be a Mayan settlement in an uninhabited part of Mexico
SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! Another contestant was eliminated during tonight’s (May 11) episode of Survivor: Kaôh Rōng season 32 “Brains vs. Brawns vs. Beauty”! Joe won the reward challenge and decided to take Aubry and Cydney along for the overnight spa trip. There was no immunity [...]
The majority of Americans struggle with money management. According to a recent poll, approximately 80 percent are in debt while another 50 percent either break even or are living beyond their means each and every month. This boldly underlines the indubitable reality that most Americans need serious financial guidance.
Learning the methods and habits necessary for attaining financial prosperity is more accessible than ever with the cornucopia of books and online resources available. Financial... Читать дальше...
All sports must be a little frightened of what they might find if they started looking a little harder.
After weeks of disappointing performances and unavoidable unflattering comparisons to past seasons’ glories, this week The Voice Season 10 finally kicked into high gear, with everyone in the top nine stepping it up. Before we start dreading next week’s bloodbath results night, let’s discuss this week’s performances, with regular “The Day After” co-host and Season 9 finalist Jeffery Austin! And let’s throw in some talk about Jeffery’s former coach Gwen Stefani’s love duet with Blake Shelton, and his... Читать дальше...
The MS University has decided to adopt green concept for all its new upcoming buildings.The university has also decided to go for retrofitting the existing buildings.
Four hunger strikers called off their 10-day protest Wednesday at San Francisco State University after the school’s president agreed to provide an additional $480,000 in funding to the College of Ethnic Studies. After a four-hour meeting inside the administration building, the four students and President Leslie Wong signed an 18-point statement that also provides for hiring two new Africana studies professors, creating a program in Pacific Islander studies and “hopefully implementing” a requirement... Читать дальше...
The Vikings, Twins, Timberwolves, Wild and Gophers dominate many of the sports headlines in the Twin Cities media. Three of those five entities had major leadership/personnel decisions to make this spring: The Timberwolves and Wild were deciding on head coaches and the Gophers were in search of a permanent athletic director. All three have announced their hires within the past few weeks. And in what has to qualify as a stunning development, all three of them thought big – and all three seem to have gotten things right. Читать дальше...
Gunman heard swearing and saying, "How's that? That's where we just went."
A gang that used to burgle temples and steal two-wheelers landed in the police net on Wednesday.The Makarpura police on Wednesday arrested three persons for their involvement several vehicle thefts in the city.
Minnesota might be Mark Coyle’s biggest hurdle yet.
Luck, police work and disarray inside the terror cell lessened the carnage from the airport and subway bombings in March, according to new details based on the investigation and a Belgian parliamentary inquiry.