Largest US sting on drug cartel arrests 300-plus - Yahoo! News

Largest US sting on drug cartel arrests 300-plus - Yahoo! News

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

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Treasury: bailed-out firms to slash pay in Nov. - Yahoo! News

Treasury: bailed-out firms to slash pay in Nov. - Yahoo! News

The Treasury Department is ordering companies that received billions of dollars in government bailouts to halve total compensation for their top executives. But the big reductions will not apply to pay earned before November.

The Illinois Consumer Installment Loan Act allows entities like The Payday Loan Store of Illinois to charge any interest they want. Does this help our economy? Why is this allowed? What legislators of Illinois were involved in passing this Act? The people who are borrowing this money are the people suffering from the billions of dollars "stolen" by the people who are being bailed out.

Quinn Announces His Candidacy For Governor - WGN

Quinn Announces His Candidacy For Governor - WGN

Gov. Pat Quinn officially announced his candidacy for governor this morning at Hotel Allegro downtown.

Does Governor Quinn know about the Illinois Consumer Installment Loan Act? This Act allows an entity to charge any interest rate they want on a loan. Who is responsible for passing this Act? What government official is lining his/her pockets with "loot" gathered from this Act?

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Primate fossil called only a distant relative - Yahoo! News

Primate fossil called only a distant relative - Yahoo! News

Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts protested that Ida wasn't even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their reaction.

In fact, Ida is as far removed from the monkey-ape-human ancestry as a primate could be, says Erik Seiffert of Stony Brook University in New York.

BROWN ARRESTS TWO INDIVIDUALS FOR $678,000 MEDICARE RIP-OFF | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com

BROWN ARRESTS TWO INDIVIDUALS FOR $678,000 MEDICARE RIP-OFF | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that agents from his office late last night arrested two individuals who bilked Medicare out of $678,000 by submitting phony bills for walkers, wheelchairs...

BROWN ARRESTS TWO INDIVIDUALS FOR $678,000 MEDICARE RIP-OFF | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com

BROWN ARRESTS TWO INDIVIDUALS FOR $678,000 MEDICARE RIP-OFF | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that agents from his office late last night arrested two individuals who bilked Medicare out of $678,000 by submitting phony bills for walkers, wheelchairs...

FBI: Mobster 'more powerful than a John Gotti' - CNN.com

FBI: Mobster 'more powerful than a John Gotti' - CNN.com

Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of. The FBI says Mogilevich, a Russian mobster, has been involved in arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire.

Lawsuit: Madoff's workplace was rife with cocaine, sex - CNN.com

Lawsuit: Madoff's workplace was rife with cocaine, sex - CNN.com

A new lawsuit alleges that convicted swindler Bernie Madoff financed a cocaine-fueled work environment and a "culture of sexual deviance," and he diverted money to his London, England, office when he believed federal authorities were closing in at home.

Legal News - Crime, Courts, Celebrity Docket, and Law News from CNN.com

Legal News - Crime, Courts, Celebrity Docket, and Law News from CNN.com

The body found in a landfill has been identified as that of Somer Thompson, 7, who had been missing since Monday. The landfill is near Folkston, Georgia, 55 miles north of where Orange Park, Florida, where Somer became separated from her friends on the way home from school

TARP head confirms substantial pay cuts looming - Yahoo! News

TARP head confirms substantial pay cuts looming - Yahoo! News

The chairman of the panel that oversees the $700 billion federal bailout fund said Thursday the Obama administration is insisting on slashing the salaries of executives of companies that took money from the government.