Ferrol Sams, a country doctor who started writing fiction in his late 50s and went on to win critical praise and a devoted readership for his humorous and perceptive novels and stories that drew on his medical practice and his rural Southern roots, died on Tuesday at his home in Lafayette, Ga. He was 90. The cause, said his son Ferrol Sams III, also a doctor, was that he was “slap wore...
Chicago beer firm Crown Imports is caught in antitrust fight
Label: Business An antitrust brouhaha in Washington has thrown the future of Crown Imports, a Chicago-based beer importer, into question.The...
Jan
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Convicted murderer mistakenly released from Cook County Jail
Label: World An Indiana man convicted of murder has been on the loose since Wednesday night after Cook County Jail officials mistakenly released...
Sony ignites talk of PS4 unveil with Playstation meeting
Label: TechnologyTOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp will this month host its first major Playstation meeting in two years, sparking a flare-up in online speculation the Japanese consumer electronics giant is preparing to unveil the successor to its 70 million-selling PS3 games console.Sony declined to say whether it would release a new product at the meeting in New York on February 20. “We will be talking about the Playstation...
Whitney Houston anniversary to be marked with TV Grammy special
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Grammy organizers plan to mark the first anniversary of the sudden death of Whitney Houston with a behind-the-scenes TV show on how they scrambled to honor the singer just 24 hours after she died.The Recording Academy said on Thursday that the hour-long special entitled “The Grammys Will Go On: A Death in the Family” will air on February 9, the day before the 2013 Grammy Awards...
Insurance Industry Report Faults High Fees for Out-of-Network Care
Label: HealthMichael Nagle for The New York TimesAngel Gonzalez, 36, faced huge bills after emergency gallbladder surgery, despite having good insurance coverage. “I was on the hook for more than I made in a year.” Just over a year ago, Angel Gonzalez, 36, awoke with searing chest pain at 2 a.m. A friend drove him to the closest emergency room. Though he was living on $18,000 a year as a graduate...
Former Peregrine CEO Wasendorf gets 50 years in prison
Label: Business A U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced the founder of Peregrine Financial Group to 50 years in prison for looting hundreds of millions...
Jan
30
George Ryan returns home to finish sentence under house arrest
Label: World Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was let out of a federal prison in Indiana in the dead of night early Wednesday and checked...
Timeline: From RIM to BlackBerry, a company in transition
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd has launched its new line of re-engineered BlackBerry smartphones, taking the wraps off the long-delayed devices at a series of events around the world on Wednesday.The company used the occasion to announce that it was changing its name to BlackBerry, hoping a new brand identity will polish its tarnished image and help give it a fresh start.The company, which has...
Patty Andrews of Andrews Sisters dead at 94
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio whose hits such as the rollicking “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B” and the poignant “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” captured the home-front spirit of World War II, died Wednesday. She was 94.Andrews died of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, said family spokesman Alan Eichler...
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