AP Business Writer WASHINGTON — Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys wanted to bring a case swiftly against Bank of America for allegedly misleading shareholders when it acquired Merrill Lynch, and as a result omitted significant violations from their initial charges, according to an agency watchdog report released Tuesday. The report by the office of SEC [...]
Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — John D’Agostino Sr., whose work in comic books ranged from Archie and Jughead to the Incredible Hulk and G.I. Joe, among others, has died. He was 81. D’Agostino died Sunday of bone cancer in Ansonia, Conn., publisher Archie Comics said Tuesday in a statement. Born in Italy in 1929, D’Agostino emigrated [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Kid Rock says ticket brokers are crashing his birthday bash and driving up concert prices. The country rocker with hip-hop roots says on his website that he would love to confront scalpers who swoop in and buy blocks of his low-priced tickets, then resell them for profit. He says it leaves him [...]
For The Associated Press “The Sherlockian†(Twelve/Hachette Book Group, $24.99), by Graham Moore: In 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle writes what he thinks will be his last Sherlock Holmes story, killing off the iconic character at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Several years later, Conan Doyle receives a crude and anonymously sent letter bomb, which impels him [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Douglas is already looking forward to his next film role. The 66-year-old actor, who has been battling throat cancer since August, tells the weekly Hollywood Reporter that he’ll play the title part in Steven Soderbergh’s “Liberace,†which is set to begin shooting in May or June. Douglas says he will [...]
Associated Press NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg has officially kicked off the holiday season in New York City, lighting the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree amid thousands of revelers crowding the area. Bloomberg helped turn on the 30,000 energy-efficient lights dressing the tree Tuesday night. The lighting show featured live performances by Jessica Simpson, Sheryl [...]
Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Notes jotted on hundreds of clipboards create the raw data stream. Number crunchers in back offices do the rest as both sides in Minnesota’s close governor’s race chart every ballot challenged in a statewide manual recount of more than 2.1 million ballots. While election nerds revel in the spreadsheet-tailored [...]
Trying to predict what will happen in North Korea is unwise and unlikely to prepare us for what does come next. For decades, the line between North Korea and South Korea has been a place that could draw the United States into a major war. Getting Korea wrong could have disastrous consequences for the entire [...]
Re: Let me sleep, I’m not in the military (Daily Republic, Nov. 18). Mr. Lopez complains of losing 90 minutes of sleep due to Travis Air Force Base’s playing of reveille at 7 a.m. I find his opinion entirely self-serving. I, and I’m sure a lot of others, have had comrades in arms enter eternal [...]
My name is David R. Silva. I am founder of the small nonprofit, Code-Kid. The uniqueness of our organization is to support law enforcement and youth. Our goal is to highlight the positive role law enforcement plays within the community and provide for, by our support, bridging opportunities where as law enforcement, high-risk youth and [...]
Now, at the end of 2010 — the halfway point of Barack Obama’s first term as president — much of America has been forced back down to planet Earth. This is a good time to revisit the fantasies that Obama was “postracial†and that his presidency would gloriously usher in a new United States of [...]
All right, Jerry Brown, you’ve bucked the huge national Republican tide. After 28 years, you’ve won back an office that’s been in your family 16 of the last 52 years. That’s got to be satisfying. But you said you did it because you’re convinced you’re the only fellow who can rescue California from its current [...]
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