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Dennis Kozlowski Parole: Ex-Tyco CEO Denied

Dennis Kozlowski, the former Tyco (TYC) CEO who was imprisoned back in 2005 after it was determined that he had aided in the theft of hundreds of millions of Tyco’s dollars, was denied parole today...

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America’s “Smallest Town” Sells For $900,000 At Auction`

Buford, Wyoming, billed as America’s smallest town with a population of “1″ has been sold to a pair of Vietnamese businessmen. As we previously reported the town was to be sold at auction and on...

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Keith Olbermann Sues Current TV For $50 Million

Keith Olbermann has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against his former employer Current TV in the amount of $50 million. He has alleged that his ex-bosses at the television network, who fired him on...

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Eric Holder Reassures Supreme Court: Obama Respects You

Earlier this week, President Obama “warned” the “unelected” Supreme Court to not throw out his history-making yet controversial healthcare law, popularly known as Obamacare. Today, Eric Holder came to...

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Car Designer Ferdinand Porsche Dead at 76

Legendary sports car designer Ferdinand Porsche (yes, that Porsche) died today at the age of 76 in Salzburg, Austria. Ferdinand (nicknamed “Butzi”) Porsche was born into the auto business, with his...

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Twitter Sues Spam Tool Developers And Spam Offenders

Twitter on Thursday announced that it has filed a lawsuit in a San Francisco federal court. The lawsuit centers around five companies that have profited from illegal spamming practices and spammers who...

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Viktor Bout: Real ‘Lord of War’ Arms Trafficker Sentenced To 25 Years

Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being caught in a United States sting operation.  While 25 years wasn’t quite the life term...

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Coca Cola Backs Out Of Conservative Group That Supports ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law

Following the murder of Trayvon Martin Florida’s ‘stand your ground’ law has fallen out of favor with many people and for that reason Coca Cola has decided to back out of a conservative group in the...

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Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Calls It Quits

Blake Irving is no longer the chief product officer for Yahoo, Inc. after handing in his resignation following the firing of 2,000 Yahoo employees, many which are expected to come from his department....

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10-Year-Old Gives Birth To Baby Daughter In Colombia

A 10-year-old girl in Colombia has given birth to a baby daughter without any advance care, horrifying many in the South American country. The girl appeared at a hospital earlier this week, bleeding...

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Russian Scientists Working on ‘Zombie Gun’

Russian military technologists are reportedly developing a ‘zombie gun’ – that is, a weapon that could theoretically render an individual pliable, or even drive them insane by directly attacking the...

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Minnesota Waitress Sues Police And Reclaims $12,000 Tip

Stacy Knutson, a waitress and mother of five, was hoping for what she called a “miracle” when the answer to her financial woes manifested itself in a very peculiar fashion as an unknown Fryn’ Pan...

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Bobby Petrino Placed On Leave After Motorcycle Crash Results In Scandal

Bobby Petrino has been placed on paid leave after the Arkansas Razorbacks’ coach was found to have lied about riding a motorcycle, which he crashed, with a fellow employee half his age with whom he was...

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Beware: Dramatic Increase In Tax Audit Rates

Tax audit rates have seemingly jumped to an all time high of 30% as the IRS has released its 2011 IRS Data Book, showing an unprecedented 62.8% spike in audit rates on the wealthiest taxpayers. The IRS...

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School Class Photo Called ‘Offensive” And ‘Degrading’

An elementary school class picture is causing quite a stir after the photographer Photoshopped a cartoon smiley face over a boy’s head. David Claussen, owner of Broward County Pictures, took the photo...

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Spring Break Teens Rescue FL Couple from Flaming Car

Two visiting teenagers pulled a Palm Coast, FL couple from a burning car early Tuesday after they saw a car speed past, crash and burst into a ball of fire. Yahoo reports that the two high school...

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Unemployment Drops To 8.2% As Employers Plan To Add More Jobs

Good news for job seekers in March as the private sector added 120,000 new positions, helping unemployment fall to just 8.2 percent according to a Labor Department report released on Friday. While the...

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Man Buys $130 Million Coca Cola Stock At Estate Sale

Tony Marohn’s purchase of an antique Palmer Union Oil Co stock certificate at an estate sale in 2008 may soon be regarded as one of the greatest financial decisions of all time, that’s because it could...

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Romney Won’t Reveal Where He Hides His Money, Conflicts Of Interest Likely...

When you are running to be the next President of the United States as Mitt Romney currently is the Office of Government Ethic’s likes to know where your various conflicts of interest may be found,...

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GOP Convention Bans Squirt Guns, Real Guns Are Fine Though

Florida loves guns, they have one of the strongest gun lobby movements in the United States and that likely explains why the GOP Convention which will be held in the state was able to get squirt guns...

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