TRENTON, N.J. – Amid conflict of interest allegations, former Gov. James E. McGreevey (search) resigned Wednesday from a law firm that hired him last year after he left office over a homosexual affair. The allegations involve McGreevey’s legal work on behalf of companies his administration selected two years ago to …
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ATLANTA – On the surface, Jennifer Wilbanks (search) was a happy bride-to-be who showed no sign to friends or family that she wanted to call off her extravagant wedding. But underneath, as she would later tell police after running away to New Mexico (search), Wilbanks was scared and not sure …
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FORT RUCKER, Ala. – An Army officer accused of stalking a former New Jersey National Guard soldier for days and then raping her in her barracks room went on trial in a military court Monday. First Lt. Mike Hall (search) is accused of raping Jennifer Dyer (search) last August at …
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WASHINGTON – The Senate voted Wednesday to reduce the United States’ share of the cost of U.N. peacekeeping missions (search) by tens of millions of dollars. The vote reflected congressional criticism of the United Nations following allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Oil-for-Food (search) program for Iraq, sexual abuses …
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MONACO – The prince of Hanover (search), the sometimes rowdy husband of Monaco’s Princess Caroline (search), is hospitalized in serious condition with an acute pancreas problem, the royal palace said Friday. Prince Ernst August (search) of Hanover, 51, was taken to intensive care at Monaco’s Princess Grace Hospital (search) on …
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HOUSTON – Enron Corp. did not break rules or regulations when it shifted part of one business unit to another in what prosecutors insist was a ploy to hide losses, an accounting expert testified Thursday. “It happens all the time,” Walter Rush, testifying for a second day at the fraud …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Efforts to form a new national unity government stumbled Sunday as a member of an influential Shiite alliance bloc threatened to unilaterally form a new government if rival groups did not scale back their demands. Sunnis shot back with a threat to withdraw entirely from the political …
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LOS ANGELES – Shareholders of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. (PIXR) Friday voted to approve the company’s acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) for $7.4 billion in stock. The vote makes Pixar a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney and makes Pixar Chief Executive Steve Jobs Disney’s single largest shareholder with …
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WASHINGTON – The government has added 6,000 operators, quadrupled its computer capacity for enrollment and will assist with more than 1,000 events in the week ahead as part of a final push for signing people up for the Medicare drug benefit. Many lawmakers want to extend the May 15 deadline …
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LOS ANGELES – The firm behind Morpheus online file-swapping software is suing eBay Inc. (EBAY) and 21 other defendants in a dispute over the right to technology used to make telephone calls over the Internet. The federal lawsuit filed by Los Angeles-based StreamCast Networks Inc. also names as defendants Internet …
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