Water Contamination Suit Results In Hist [ PollutionOnline ] May 20, 2008  Representing 153 public water providers, which includes municipalities, water agencies and private water companies, from 17 states, the national law firm of Baron and Budd, P.C. has announced the largest settlement to date with many of America's leading oil companies over drinking water contamination caused by the gasoline additive Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Read More ...

Decisions, decisions [ Canadian Business ] May 20, 2008  Is it better to stick with the familiar path, or take a chance and go in a new and untested direction? That's the choice that faces Biovail shareholders as the company braces for a nasty proxy battle with its founder Eugene Melnyk for control of the pharma firm. Read More ...

Tuesday May 20, 2008 [ R News ] May 20, 2008  • Double-Digit Drop in Local Home Sales The Greater Rochester Association of Realtors announced a double-digit drop in existing single family home sales. Read More ...

Task force focuses on water resources, h [ Crossville Chronicle ] May 21, 2008  For decades, the Cumberland Plateau was Tennessee's hidden jewel. While its rough terrain and rocky soil long discouraged early settlement and large-scale farming, the Plateau's dense forests and clear streams safely harbored a rich variety of wildlife and plants found nowhere else. Read More ...

CE reiterates readiness to contribute to [ Moldova.org ] May 20, 2008  The Council of Europe is ready to actively assist in solving the problems appearing during the Transdniestria conflict settlement process, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Moldova Vladimir Ristovski told Minister of Reintegration Vasilii Sova at a meeting on May 20. The two officials discussed the process of implementing the measures aimed at ... Read More ...

Arkansas News Bureau [ Arkansas News Bureau ] May 21, 2008  Merck to pay Arkansas $1.38 million in drug settlement Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas is to receive $1.38 million as its share of a $58 million settlement announced Tuesday with pharmaceutical company Merck over the marketing of the Vioxx, an arithritis drug and pain-killer. Read More ...

South Africans Fear Backlash of Violence [ Washington Post ] May 19, 2008  RAMAPHOSA INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, South Africa, May 19 -- Gift Mahlakametsa, 33, leaned on a long, carved club on Monday and pointed to the brown mountain of mine waste that passes for a hillside in this grim patch of South Africa. Just beyond the ridge, he warned, Mozambicans were waiting for... Read More ...

Settlement Reached With Keenan Taylor's [ News On 6 Tulsa ] May 20, 2008  The Oklahoma Commission for Human Services has approved a settlement with the grandfather of Keenan Taylor.  Read More ...

Things not looking up for Thubelisha [ Independent Online ] May 19, 2008  It is unlikely that government housing agent Thubelisha Homes will complete the flagship N2 Gateway housing project. Read More ...

Dance review Do Jump! on acrobatic ecolo [ The Oregonian ] May 19, 2008  'Entusiasmo!: A Show About Hope' begins with a fascinating narrative account of a sustainable community forged on barren Colombian plain, and ends with a 'We Are the World'-style vision of an Earth with political boundaries dissolved and inhabitants united in Utopian happiness. Read More ...

RCMP, instructor settle human rights com [ CBC Saskatchewan ] May 20, 2008  A settlement has been reached in the case of an RCMP instructor at the Training Academy who launched a human rights complaint on his treatment by the force. Read More ...

South Africa Gauteng Govt to Curb Housin [ AllAfrica.com ] May 19, 2008  In an effort to curb illegal occupations, fraud and corruption in the allocation of new housing developments, a door-to-door campaign is to be conducted to verify the details of beneficiaries before handing out title deeds. Read More ...

The road map revisited [ Middle East Times ] May 18, 2008  JERUSALEM -- The 'Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict' highlights both the good intentions and the misplaced conceptions of its promulgators. Read More ...

State agrees to settle lawsuit over todd [ KJRH-TV Tulsa ] May 20, 2008  The state Commission for Human Services has agreed to pay $160,000 to settle a lawsuit over the scalding death of a 2-year-old boy. Read More ...

RBA Releases Wage Survey Results [ R News ] May 20, 2008  The Rochester Business Alliance released results of its 2008 wage and salary surveys. The average rate paid for a non-exempt, hourly job is $15.01, up from $14.89 last year. The average hourly rate paid for a manufacturing job is $14.59, up from $14.27 last year. Read More ...

Victim's family offered settlement from [ KJRH-TV Tulsa ] May 20, 2008  A Tulsa family filed suit against the Department of Human Services after a 2-year-old boy's father killed him. The family says DHS should've taken the child out of the father's... Read More ...

Oil Trades Above $126 on Dollar Weakness [ Bloomberg.com ] May 18, 2008  May 19 -- Crude oil traded above $126 a barrel in New York on speculation supply risks and weakness in the U.S. dollar will sustain investor demand for the commodity. Read More ...

Nonprofit Coalition Focuses On Covering [ Hartford Courant ] May 19, 2008  As health care and health insurance costs soar, a nonprofit coalition is urging towns to pass resolutions calling for the state to solve the health care insurance crisis. The latest example is in Coventry, where the town council will be presented with a 400-name petition and proposed resolution tonight. Read More ...