| Hand-me-down firetruck proves to be a lifesaver
Fire Chief Dennis Massey is proud of the volunteer fire department's 1959 Chevy Spartan firetruck. Massey has been a part of the Village of Palisades firefighting force almost since the beginning in 1996. The all-volunteer department uses hand-me-downs and what they can get on a small budget. .
Sale of Countrywide Ends Brief L.A. Era
Bank of Americas $4.1 billion buyout of Calabasas-based Countrywide Financial Corp. announced earlier this month puts the exclamation point on perhaps the most rapid meltdown of an industry in Los Angeles County history. For five years, mortgage finance was one of the fastest growing industries in Southern California, creating tens of thousands of jobs, pouring billions of dollars into the local economy and making Los Angeles and Orange counties the nations leading center of mortgage finance. And faster than it came, it went. Santa Monica-based Fremont General Corp., Orange-based Ameriquest Mortgage Co. and Irvine-based New Century Financial Corp. are all out of the mortgage lending business, at least as they practiced it. Countrywide has been whacked, and Pasadena-based IndyMac Bancorp is struggling, laying off a quarter of its workers last week.
Nursing home crackdown displaces hundreds
Hundreds of Tennessee nursing home residents have been displaced this year because of serious health and safety violations that caused the facilities to lose Medicare and Medicaid funding. Five nursing homes, with a total of 750 beds, have lost Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services funding this year over reports of patient injuries and residents being restrained without consent, among others. .
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Gangulys all-round heroics take India to verge of victory
New Delhi, November 25
India, needing 32 runs with seven wickets in hand, were within sniffing distance of victory at stumps on the fourth day of the first Test against Pakistan at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here today. Sourav Ganguly celebrates the dismissal of Pakistans Misbah-ul-Haq on the fourth day of the first Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Sunday. Reuters photo Sachin crosses Border, closes in on Lara
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar overtook Australian great Allan Border on Sunday to become the second highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket. Tendulkar, who is unbeaten on 32 in the second innings of Indias first Test against Pakistan at Ferozeshah Kotla, now tallies 11,183 runs in 141 Tests.
CHEMISTRY LESSONS: A dying teacher's decision to begin cooking drugs ...
Walt White is a study in ordinariness. His mustache is dull and drastically out of date. His wire-rimmed glasses are the bland rectangles of a dedicated square. Even his drab textured sweaters send the message that this is a forgettable man. Like the rest of middle-aged, middle-class America right now, Walt is struggling to make ends meet, teaching high school chemistry and holding down a part-time job at a car wash. Then, as he turns 50, his life goes from slightly depressing to downright awful when he's diagnosed with terminal cancer. .
Contractor loses La. scholarship account data dating back to 1998
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A Boston-based contractor hired to store and safeguard state scholarship and college savings account data lost most of those records _ including bank account numbers and student and parent Social Security numbers _ during a move, officials say. "We certainly don't want to create any panic. But people should be aware and take the necessary steps," said Melanie Amrhein, executive director of the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance. "This is backup data off of a mainframe that contains sensitive personal information." Special equipment and software and "sophisticated computer skills" would be needed to get the compressed records from the TOPS scholarship program, START Saving Program, and Free Application for Federal Student Aid, according to a notice posted on the Internet.
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