Job prospects tightening (The Spokesman-Review)
Andrea Pidliskey has spent months unsuccessfully looking for a job as a cook or a cashier. She says she wants to get regular work so she can move off a friend's couch and get her family their own place. |
Job market slow in South Florida, but some resorts have been hiring (Sun-Sentinel)
It's slow in South Florida, but some resorts have hired Unemployment stands at a 15-year high in Florida, but at least one place is hiring: the W Fort Lauderdale, a chic 517-room resort scheduled to debut in March with 350 jobs. |
Marty Burns: Was Raptors firing of Mitchell justified? (Sports Illustrated)
Another week. Another NBA coach gets the ax. This time it's Sam Mitchell of the Raptors. |
Ex-Boston man charged in 1984 Roxbury murder (Boston Herald)
A 60-year-old former Boston man was charged this morning with strangling a teenaged girl with an athletic sock and beating her to death with a piece of concrete during a savage... |
Garbo finds $24,000 in bag (Herald Sun)
A BINMAN who found pound stg. 10,000 ($24,000) stuffed in a plastic carrier bag has been told by police he can keep the cash. |
Boro sees mixed turnout on Black Friday (YourNabe.com)
Queens residents flocked to shopping centers throughout the borough Friday, some waking as early as 3 a.m. to take advantage of steep Black Friday sales despite a tanking national economy that has left many Americans tightening the grip on their wallets. |
Her vacation is for -- not from -- the needy (The Grand Rapids Press)
Press Photo/Katy BatdorffBarb Smith holds two of her granddaughters, Paris Carter, 3, left, and Ramyah Carter, 7, at In the Image on Wednesday afternoon. Let's pretend you work all year helping the needy at a place like In the Image,... |
Brown assumes new leadership role (Tahlequah Daily Press)
For the past three election cycles, Rep. Mike Brown, D-Tahlequah, has served House District 4. He is popular with constituents and has stayed true to his Democratic base by championing causes that impact the average Oklahoman. |
If rental sounds too good to be true, it probably is (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
With foreclosures rising and affordable rentals hard to find in Santa Cruz County, scammers are teasing prospective tenants and landlords with offers on Craiglist that are too good to be true. |
Joanne Bamberger: How I Know We're in for a Rough Economic Ride (HuffingtonPost)
I had lunch at Burger King last week and there was no one in line ahead of me, which struck me as a little odd. The cashier exclaimed when he saw me, "Oh, thank God -- a customer!" |
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