CHICAGO – Movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc. (BBI) on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss that was more than double Wall Street’s forecast as lackluster new video releases failed to attract consumers. The largest U.S. home video and DVD rental company also said it was no longer on track to meet …
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What are the pros and cons of closed-end bond funds? QUESTION: What are the pros and cons of closed-end-bond funds? What are the risks, and what’s the average return of this type of investment? ANSWER: Closed-end funds are a little like mutual funds on steroids. Like their more staid open-end …
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Isaiah Washington has filed a complaint with the Screen Actors Guild over ABC’s use of his picture in last week’s new episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. The face of Washington’s former character, Dr. Preston Burke, was featured in a newspaper article about the character receiving a …
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BOISE, Idaho – A 13-year-old Meridian, Idaho boy who collapsed during Little League practice continues to improve and his school intends to recognize the teenage girl who led his rescue. The boy has been in critical condition at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center since last week. Cole Valley Christian school …
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DETROIT – A high school trip to the Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio was cut short for 200 students when one of them became ill after eating a brownie laced with marijuana, a district official said Thursday. The annual trip for West Bloomfield High physics students was cut short …
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PITTSBURGH – A man fatally stabbed a neighbor woman because she treated him “like dirt” and told him he smelled, Pittsburgh police said. Terrence Andrews, 38, is charged with criminal homicide in the Thursday night death of 19-year-old Lisa Maas. Andrews told them Maas insulted him that morning and he …
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CLEVELAND – The R&B singer Sean Levert, who died at age 39 after falling ill in jail, suffered from a variety of ailments and died of natural causes, the county coroner ruled Thursday. The 39-year-old Levert, a member of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O’Jays singer …
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“American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest is reportedly in talks to take over Larry King’s talk show. Sources close to Seacrest told MediaBistro.com’s Fishbowl L.A. that he’s in “talks” to take over for Larry King on CNN, but added it’s unlikely it would happen because Seacrest has so many lucrative jobs …
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Two weeks after a FOX News investigation showed oil-rich Saudia Arabia had donated nothing this year to help the United Nations World Food Program feed the world’s hungry, the globe’s number one oil exporter is finally opening its checkbook. The United Nations this morning told FOX that the Saudis have …
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SANYA, China – Sweating, cheering Chinese stood on their chairs and waved flags as the Olympic torch relay finally started its mainland leg Sunday on the tropical island of Hainan — the first stop in what is expected to be a peaceful three-month journey to Beijing. Protests followed the torch …
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