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Alabama county files biggest municipal bankruptcy                   By Melinda Dickinson Reuters   BIRMINGHAM, Alabama- Alabama’s Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy court protection on Wednesday in the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.   Commissioners for the county, which is home to Birmingham, the state’s biggest city and […]

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Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey Ultra-filtering Removes Pollen, Hides Honey Origins by Andrew Schneider Food Safety News   More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been […]

Net Worth of Lawmakers Up 25 Percent in Two Years, Analysis Demonstrates By Paul Singer and Jennifer Yachnin Roll Call Staff Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members’ financial disclosure […]

Sunday alcohol sales prove popular with most metro Atlanta voters   By Johnny Edwards The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Georgia’s age-old, all-out ban on buying beer, wine and liquor at shops on Sunday has met its end. Early poll results had voters in most of the 51 metro Atlanta jurisdictions giving a resounding yes Tuesday to seven […]

Fall in India car sales signals slowdown By James Fontanella-Khan in Mumbai Financial Times India’s auto sales in October suffered their biggest fall in over a decade, the strongest indication yet that Asia’s third largest economy is heading for a brusque slowdown. Domestic sales of passenger cars were down 23.8 per cent, while production fell […]

U.S. Can’t Stand by While Racism Ravages Libya Rev. Jesse Jackson The Huffington Post Before leaving the G-20 meetings in Cannes, France, President Obama joined with French President Sarkozy to pay tribute to the two countries’ alliance and celebrate the successful intervention in Libya that ended the rule of Moammar Gadhafi. …….That’s why the U.S. […]

Americans Have Fewer Close Friends Compared to 25 Years Ago By: Shauna Wright While social media sites may have increased Americans’ overall number of acquaintances, new research slated for publication in a journal called ‘Social Networks’ shows the number of people we claim as close friends is now lower than it was 25 years ago. […]

  Joe Paterno issues statement   Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa.– Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will retire at the end of the season, his long and illustrious career brought down because he failed to do all he could about an allegation of child sex abuse against a former assistant. Penn State football coach […]

Is this the largest wave ever ridden? By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com Garrett McNamara rode what members of his group implied was the largest wave ever successfully negotiated during a tow-surfing session Tuesday off the coast of Nazare, a small fishing town 70 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal. The wave face measured “around 90 feet,” according […]