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LaHood's Japan trip to focus on Toyota safety - Sat, 20 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he'll go to Japan this summer for talks with Toyota executives about the sudden acceleration problem plaguing some Toyotas.
LaHood also says he'll examine Japan's high-speed rail system.
He spoke
Letter: Lehman accounting tricks possibly illegal - Sat, 20 Mar 2010
NEW YORK (AP) A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday.
Matthew Lee, a former Lehman senior vice president, was fired days
Obama tells Congress: Act soon on financial reform - Sat, 20 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. needs major changes to its financial system so consumers are better protected, banks fortified and the economy safeguarded from sliding into another Depression, President Barack Obama said Saturday.
In his weekly radio and Internet
Bernanke: Keep Fed as watchdog of small U.S. banks - Sat, 20 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a fresh pitch Saturday to retain oversight of small banks, contending that what the Fed learns from that role helps it assess the overall health of the entire U.S. financial system.
Thousands of British Airways flights canceled as crew on strike - Sat, 20 Mar 2010
LONDON (AP) Retiree Richard Moore arrived at Heathrow with a suitcase of summer clothes for a Miami cruise only to be sent to Denver. Susan Danby wondered if plans for a joint 50th birthday celebration in Las Vegas would
Oregon town uses geothermal energy to stay warm - Sat, 20 Mar 2010
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few
The four cities that best weathered the recession - Fri, 19 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) Call them the Final Four: The four large cities that have made it through the Great Recession with the smallest increases in unemployment.
Minneapolis, Buffalo, Oklahoma City and Rochester, N.Y., don't have much else in common.
Credit scores can drop after getting loan help - Fri, 19 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) Some homeowners who sign up for the government's mortgage assistance program are getting a nasty surprise: Lower credit scores.
For borrowers who are making their payments on time but are on the verge of default, the
Stocks fall as worries about Greek debt return - Fri, 19 Mar 2010
NEW YORK (AP) Stocks halted their steady climb Friday after renewed concerns about Greece's ability to pay its debts left investors questioning a global economic recovery.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 37 points after advancing for eight
Q-C Exelon employees raise $190,000 for United Way - Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Exelon Nuclear's Quad Cities Generating Station said that in 2009, employees raised more than $190,000 during the station's annual United Way Campaign.
Their donations will go to several local United Way organizations in the counties of Rock Island and
Brady Street Aldi to close temporarily - Fri, 19 Mar 2010
ALDI will close its Brady Street store on April 3 so the building can be demolished to make way for a new Aldi on the same site. The new store is expected to open next fall.
The current
Dietz Chiropractic ribbon cutting to be held March 25 - Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Press release submitted by Shelley Vermeulen
RE: Ribbon Cutting
WHO: Dietz Chiropractic
WHERE: 1302 – 7th Street, Suite 201, Moline
WHEN: Thursday, March 25th
TIME: 12pm
DETAILS: Dietz Chiropractic
Hack-proof your personal info this tax season - Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Tax hackers: Whether you're filing your tax return electronically, downloading forms or e-mailing your accountant, identity thieves are ready to pounce on any social security numbers, addresses and bank account numbers you may unknowingly divulge. While tax preparation software
Two-track economy: 9.7% unemployment, $200K cars - Thu, 18 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) For the super-rich and everyone else, the economic recovery is taking place in two very different gears.
A British company is betting there's a market in North America for a $200,000 sports car built with Formula
Govt rewarded bank auditors with big bonuses - Thu, 18 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) As banks gambled on the risky mortgages that helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the U.S. government handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to regulators at agencies that missed or ignored warning signs that
DeBord Catering changing hands - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 Rockabilly still rocks in Tennessee - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 Stocks in narrow range after price, jobs data - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 NEW YORK (AP) Stocks are trading in a narrow range Thursday after a fresh batch of economic reports showed the economy continues to slowly regain its strength. The slightly positive reports on inflation, jobless claims and leading Economic mixed bag: No inflation but little hiring - Thu, 18 Mar 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) The picture of an economy growing modestly without producing inflation yet struggling to create jobs emerged from government reports Thursday. The number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell slightly last week for the State aging agency's planned expansion questioned - Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Diane DeBord Catering is changing hands, but not much else. The name of the 31-year-old business, its Moline location and what it offers will stay the same.
"Expect the same good service, and the same food," Ms. DeBord said.
JACKSON, Tenn. – Henry Harrison was there when rockabilly music was born. He wasn't a musician or a singer or a songwriter. But Harrison did something very important. He saved the stories and memorabilia of those early music pioneers.
SPRINGFIELD -- The boss at Illinois' Department on Aging said he still wants to move to a new office -- still needs to move to a new office -- but won't because it has become a "distraction."
Charles Johnson
