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June 5, 2009 by Matt Placek

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment rose in the month of May by 345,000...

June 5, 2009 by Matt Placek

On Monday, the automotive giant General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. With this move, GM became...

June 4, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Ex-Countrywide Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo was charged with civil fraud and illegal insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday in a federal court in Los Angeles

June 4, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The Organization of American States voted to readmit Cuba after a 47-year hiatus from the group on Wednesday. Following the announcement of the revocation, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya exclaimed that "the Cold War has ended this day in San Pedro Sula

June 2, 2009

Military planes spotted metallic and non-metallic debris located in the area of the South Atlantic where Air France Flight 447 is believed to have vanished earlier this week.

Friday May 29th, 2009

Scott Eckersley, a former attorney, employed by the governor’s office in Missouri, recently settled with the state in a wrongful termination suit. In January of 2008, he threatened to sue Governor Matt Blunt and other administration officials for retaliation.

Friday May 29th, 2009

Though most baby boomers say that they would like to work well into their retirement years, this is becoming an impossibility, because many are unable to find work in the current economic recession. For this reason...

Wednesday May 27th, 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a historic choice for the first of what are expected to be multiple Obama Supreme Court nominees during his presidency.

Tuesday May 28, 2009

Seniors who live in the state of Illinois have voiced concerns that they may be forced to move into nursing homes if their governor...

Wednesday May 27th, 2009

The odds of a GM bankruptcy increased on Wednesday when creditors failed to approve a measure that would have given  them a 10% stake in the company in exchange for their $27 million of debt.

May 22, 2009

Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development recently sent a notice to 4,500 unemployed residents that their social security numbers and other personal information had been sent to the wrong employer. The mistake was made...

May 22, 2009

A Wisconsin man was recently fired from a Wal-mart, for what he believes to be wrongful termination. On April 19, he was involved in an on-the-job accident and was injured. He filed for...

May 15, 2009

On Tuesday, government officials announced that a hard drive, containing the social security numbers and other personal information of thousands of individuals has been lost from the National Archives record center in Washington D.C...

May 15, 2009

Joseph Sicilia worked for Boeing from 2001 to November 2007, when he was fired after raising concerns about his company’s violation of government regulations. For most of his time with Boeing...

Tuesday May 5, 2009

A law, which was recently proposed in Ohio, will require that residents of nursing homes or assisted living facilities and their families be made aware when a registered sex offender moves into the facility...

Jim Bolla, the former women’s basketball coach for the University of Hawaii, filed a lawsuit against the university on Monday, saying that he was wrongfully terminated. He claims that because of his numerous complaints about the disparities between the men and women’s athletic teams, he was fired.

The state of Oklahoma is currently working to notify more than one million people who live in the state that their personal data, including social security numbers, birthdates and home addresses, were stolen last week.

A bill, which was recently presented in Massachusetts, has been called unconstitutional by many critics. It was designed to protect the elderly and the mentally handicapped individuals of the state from sexual exploitation. The law functions...

Senators Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana have recently proposed a bit of legislation known as the “Dream Act.” This bill will affect the children of immigrant parents (legal and illegal), and may have some dramatic effects on national and international family law. Under the proposed legislation, those children...

A woman who lives in Briar, Texas is unable to leave her trailer, because she weighs 700-pounds. The woman blames her massive size on her diabetes...