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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
By SARAH ANTONACCI A federal jury will reconvene this morning to continue deliberating the case of a Springfield police officer accused in a civil suit of using excessive force in April 2002 against a mentally ill man. The family of Andrew Sallenger, who died at age 35 about 24 hours after struggling with three police officers in his Eastdale Avenue home, is asking the jury to find that one of
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services withdrew its ratings on newspaper publisher Journal Register Co. at the company's request, the agency said Friday.
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STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... grant money and using it to keep sites open is a possibility.------Information from: The State Journal-Register, | | reader commentsCOMMENTING RULES: We encourage an open exchange of ideas in the STLtoday community, but we ask you to follow . Basically, be civil, smart, on-topic and free from profanity. Don't say anything you wouldn't want your mother to read! And remember: We may miss some,...
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...My heart's in Accra (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
... raise a million bucks and buy the New Haven Register and hundreds of other smaller papers - the Journal Register Company is down 99% percent in the past two years. What it may mean is building digital institutions that fulfill some of the journalistic functions newspapers are abandoning . That was one of the motivations behind building Global Voices - Rebecca and I wondered whether citizen...
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I Read the News Today: All Beatle News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... Here’s what we’ve read: Photo appears to show McCartney at Clear Lake Circle K By DAVE BAKKE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER Name the last person you would have expected to see last weekend at the Circle K gas station on Clear Lake Avenue. No, it wasn’t him. He’s at the White House packing for his trip to Asia. And, no, it wasn’t him either — he’s still in a cave somewhere on the Pakistan-Afghanistan...
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Reflections of a Newsosaur (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... of confidence that better days lie ahead, at least with respect to these two properites.Unlike Journal Register, GateHouse Media and Tribune, these privately held publishers are not known to be over-burdened with debt they are struggling to repay at a time revenues are shrinking at double-digit rates.The Newark and San Diego papers have been held so long and historically appear to have been...
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Ellen Goodman: Economy is equal opportunity in job-loss departmentThe State Journal-Register, IL - 48 minutes agoIt reflected the inner struggle of many mothers trying to balance work and home, boss and child, in the 24/7 work world. It even credited the second shift …
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ILLINOIZE (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Cross posted from ICPR 's blog, The Race is On : A couple of years ago, reports in the Tribune , Crain's , and the State Journal Register linked five bundled donations to Gov. Blagojevich's campaign with the All Kids health insurance program and the contract to manage it. New reports out today suggest that pattern may be repeating itself, this time in Florida. Today's news report indicates that...
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The Peoria Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
U. S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the “Train Cars Act” (S.3360) on Tuesday in the Senate. The State Journal-Register explains what the bill proposes: Durbin’s bill provides funding to encourage manufacturers currently supplying passenger rail cars overseas to open modern facilities here. And it provides a tax incentive for private domestic businesses to re-enter [...]