Category Archives: Money

Loretta Lynn out of hospital, recovering at home

By doris | Published: October 24, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In the government’s latest attempt to address the ailing housing market, President Obama will announce changes to a federal program Monday that will make it easier for struggling homeowners to refinance to today’s near-record low rates. Under the new program, homeowners who owe more on their homes [...]

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Obama recruits more big money ‘bundlers’

By doris | Published: October 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON/CHICAGO — The number of donors who raise big money for President Barack Obama jumped in the last three months as he builds a war chest for what will likely be the costliest presidential election ever. At least forty-one people have raised at least half a million dollars for the president, [...]

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Twisted government accounting behind Postal Service woes

By doris | Published: October 10, 2011

Full Story at RedTape.msnbc.msn.com You might have heard that the United States Postal Service is in trouble: that it’s losing billions, that it will have to end Saturday service and close branches — and most inflammatory, that it might need a government bailout. Perhaps you heard that the Postal Service couldn’t pay $5.5 billion bill [...]

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Postal Service may default on a $5.5 billion trust fund payment

By doris | Published: September 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Postal Service does not have the money to meet an obligation to a retiree health care trust fund coming due at the end of the month, but if there’s a default, officials promise no interruption in the mail, the payroll or payments to suppliers. Commenting in [...]

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School superintendent gives up $800,000 in pay

By doris | Published: August 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com FRESNO, Calif. — Some people give back to their community. Then there’s Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell, who’s really giving back. As in $800,000 — what would have been his compensation for the next three years. Until his term expires in 2015, Powell will run 325 schools and 35 school [...]

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Price on Gaddafi’s head as fighting goes on

By doris | Published: August 24, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s new masters offered a million-dollar bounty for the fugitive Muammar Gaddafi, after he urged his men to fight on in battles across parts of the capital. A day after rebel forces overran his Tripoli headquarters and trashed symbols of his 42-year rule, scattered pockets of loyalist diehards [...]

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After 27 years, man hacks off hair for charity

By doris | Published: August 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com STROUD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man who has been growing his hair for 27 years had it hacked off for a good cause Thursday morning. He’s donating his ponytail to Locks of Love, an organization that makes wigs for people battling cancer. Dan McGuinness of Long Pond squirmed as scissors snipped [...]

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Rembrandt work stolen from California hotel

By doris | Published: August 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — A drawing by Rembrandt, valued at $250,000, was stolen from a hotel in Southern California in what sheriff’s investigators said was a well-planned heist.Story: Mobile scanner brings x-rays to old paintings The pen-and-ink drawing, believed to be called “The Judgment,” was nabbed Saturday night while a [...]

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Jerry Lewis no longer MDA’s national chairman

By doris | Published: August 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com TUCSON, Ariz. — The Muscular Dystrophy Association says comedian Jerry Lewis is no longer serving as the organization’s national chairman. The 85-year-old Lewis has been the MDA’s national chairman since the early 1950s. He announced in May that he was retiring as host of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon [...]

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Police Bust Lemonade Stands Nationwide

By doris | Published: July 22, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com July should be prime lemonade stand season, but it’s been a rough summer for the industry. Police busted three Georgia girls for selling glasses of icy lemonade outside their house last Friday. The trio was trying to raise money for tickets to a local waterpark, but they committed one infraction: operating a [...]

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Feeling nostalgic: 12 TV theme songs you loved

By doris | Published: July 21, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger indicated in a court filing that he does not want to pay wife Maria Shriver spousal support or attorney fees as the couple ends their 25-year marriage. The dispute may have little impact on the divorce, since the former Hollywood couple is expected to reach [...]

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Billy the Kid photograph fetches $2.3 million at auction

By doris | Published: June 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 130-year-old photo, billed as the only authenticated picture of legendary outlaw Billy the Kid, sold for $2.3 million at a Denver auction Saturday night. The Kid reportedly paid 25 cents to have the photo taken in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The Old West Show & Auction had estimated [...]

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Congress hashes over GM bailout

By doris | Published: June 22, 2011

Full Story at cleveland.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of a House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of making politically motivated decisions in picking the winners and losers in the General Motors and Chrysler bankruptcies. Subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan, a Republican from the Urbana area, said the intervention in GM’s bankruptcy established [...]

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Father’s Day: Presents Sure to Wow Dad PHOTO: The Gorilla Torch

By doris | Published: June 18, 2011

Full Story at ABCNews.go.com With Father’s Day right around the corner, maybe you’re scrambling for some great gift ideas for dad. Ties and golf clubs are nice, but maybe this year dad deserves a seriously “cool tool.”

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OPEC deadlocked on oil production hike

By doris | Published: June 8, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Oil prices breached the $100-a-barrel mark Wednesday after OPEC said it could not reach an agreement about raising crude production. U.S. crude jumped $1.65, or 1.7%, to settle at $100.74 a barrel. Oil prices were trading down about $1 just before the OPEC announcement. The price of [...]

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An act of kindness could be worth $10,000

By doris | Published: June 2, 2011

Full Story at Overhead.Bin.msnbc.msn.com Sometimes bad things happen to good travelers. On a hike during a medical mission in Vietnam, Dr. Gary Feldman stepped aside to relieve himself when the cliff he was standing on gave way. Feldman broke both legs in the fall. He then endured a 14-hour ambulance ride, an airlift and surgery [...]

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‘Walmart of Weed’ to open in Arizona, promote growing your own

By doris | Published: June 1, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — It’s called the “Walmart of Weed.” This newest big-box store is devoted to selling marijuana-growing equipment. Its biggest outlet yet is to open Wednesday in Phoenix, where Arizona voters approved medical cannabis last fall. The weGrow Store will be the first outside California, where medical weed has long been legalized. [...]

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Easy vegetables to grow

By doris | Published: May 27, 2011

Full Story at MNN.com Planting a garden doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking. But the fear of failure keeps many a gardener-wannabe from spending time and energy on planting backyard crops. Knowing the easy vegetables to grow for your region — in addition to when and where to plant them — is the best [...]

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Chrysler repays $7.6B in government loans

By doris | Published: May 24, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com DETROIT – With a few computer keystrokes in an office at its headquarters, Chrysler Group LLC sent $7.6 billion to the U.S. and Canadian governments on Tuesday, paying off most of the bailout money that saved the company from financial disaster just two years ago. The repayment — expected for weeks [...]

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South fears loss of national interest in twister recovery

By doris | Published: May 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARVEST, Ala. — The Rev. Michael Katschke is worried, but not about running out of the food, diapers and other supplies he hands out to tornado victims at the Crosswinds United Methodist Church in northern Alabama. Katschke is worried about the rest of the country just moving on. “They’re going to [...]

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