PE biggies offered $200M to avoid trial

Source: New York Post

Buyout titans dangled more than $200 million in front of investors in hopes of settling a long-running bid-rigging suit before it goes to trial, The Post has learned. Former shareholders in companies acquired by the biggest private-equity firms rejecte ...
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Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Being Challenged in Courts, Senate [FEATURE]

Source: Drug War Chronicle

Police in many states have switched tactics by obtaining mobile data to zero in on someone's prior movement and by tracking them through their cell phones, usually without a warrant. Whenever a cell phone is used, it "pings" an ...
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Windstream: Ready To Rise On DRaaS

Source: Seeking Alpha

Windstream (WIN) is an independent telecommunications giant born out of a strategic merger between former Alltel Corporation's landline business, and Valor Communications Group. The union was forged in 2006 in a ...
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Source: Elyria Chronicle-Telegram

The Lorain County General Health District's Vital Statistics Office houses the birth and death records beginning in 1908 to the present. Certificates of births and deaths occurring in all of Lorain County, except f ...
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TEXT-Fitch affirms Verizon Communications ratings

Source: Reuters

May 23 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Verizon Communications Inc.'s (NYSE: VZ) Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) and debt ratings as follows: --Long-term IDR at 'A'; --Senior unsecured debt at 'A'; --Short-term IDR at 'F1'; --Commercial paper at 'F1'. Th ...
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Friday Night Fair grows in second year of operation

Source: DE

While the upbeat tunes of the Giant City Slickers made people dance together in the heart of Carbondale, the Carbondale Main Street Executive Director Meghan Cole explained how the Friday Night Fair’s creation w ...
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Source: Arkansas Online

LITTLE ROCK Teenage (book) angst Philip Martin’s recent commentary in the MovieStyle section must be addressed. Among other things, he said that he “can’t understand why otherwise sensible adults go nuts over literature aimed ...
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Today in History: May 20

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France. 1799 French author Honore de Balzac was born in Tours, Fr ...
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