CHICAGO. August 27, 2009. Two weeks after the death of his sister Eunice, Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) has died of brain cancer at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. He is survived by his wife Victoria, his sister Jean Kennedy Smith, and his three children.
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LOS ANGELES. August 23, 2009. It was the final game of the season for the Cubs in L.A. and Dempster was in the driving seat. The question was would he be able to drive handfuls of unhitable pitches at the inform Dodgers whose machine appears to be headed towards the play off.
The first innings [...]
LOS ANGELES. August 22, 2009. Make no mistake, this was a close game. Ted Lilly came into it with a level of optimistic confidence but he was pitching against one of the strongest teams in the MLB. The Dodgers, always in the market for runs this season got two more today to beat the Cubs. [...]
YORBA LINDA. August 21, 2009. Confidence in the market for builders of newly built, single-family homes rose in August to its highest level since June 2008, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.
Home building expectations have been buoyed by the success of the first-time home buyer tax credit that expires [...]
YORBA LINDA. August 19, 2009. Home sales for the month of July rose to the highest level in more than two years as buyers are confident the worst is over.
July marked the l3th month that sales topped the year-earlier total and with 3,128 houses and condo’s changing hands, it has marked the biggest month since [...]
NEW ORLEANS, LA, August 12, 2009 —DYRON L. HART, 20, a resident of Poplarville, Mississippi, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to a one count superseding bill of information charging the defendant with communicating threats in interstate commerce, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to court documents, HART, [...]
CHICAGO, August 14, 2009. A Chicago man was indicted on federal charges for allegedly providing false information about possible terrorism activity to the FBI, causing agents to aggressively investigate the information before determining that it was a hoax. The defendant, Uzair Ali Hashmi, was indicted on three felony counts of making false statements to FBI [...]
DETROIT. August 8, 2009. General Motors Co. plans to register 3.5 billion shares of stock to ready itself for a public offering sometime next year, using the proceeds to repay at least part of what it owes the U.S. government and other stakeholders.
GM disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on [...]
FRESNO. August 8, 2009. Up to seven people were killed on Saturday afternoon after a car slammed into another during a police chase near Dinuba in California, officials say.
The accident happened in a rural area near the small town of Dinuba at the intersection of Avenue 424 and Road 120, a spokeswoman for the California [...]
CINCINNATI. August 8, 2009. A passenger died after riding the Firehawk roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio on Saturday afternoon.
Kings Island is a large theme park located in the city of Mason, which is northeast of Cincinnati.
At around 3.30 p.m. local time, the roller coaster arrived in its station after completing its [...]
