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_International Desserts & Delicacies is recalling Uncle Eddies Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate-Chip Cookies because they could be contaminated with salmonella. This organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, …
The sometimes bitter negotiations between Trammell Crow Co. andpartners who split off to form Hamilton Partners here were concludedWednesday with both sides expressing satisfaction with the divisionof more than $1 billion worth of real estate between them.
Negotiations were concluded by an agreement signed at thecompany's Hamilton Lakes project, named for the leader of thedissident group, Allen Hamilton. One of the big losses Hamilton'sgroup had to accept was Crow's retention of most of that highlysuccessful project in Itasca. The split between Trammell Crow andthe partners occurred earlier this year.
"It was emotionally disappointing to Allen and I," said …
WASHINGTON - A former House clerk faces investigators Thursday in possibly the most important testimony yet on how GOP leaders dealt with allegations about ex-Rep. Mark Foley's behavior toward pages. That includes their secret handling last fall of a complaint to a congressman who testified Wednesday.
The questioning of the former clerk, Jeff Trandahl, is coming after Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., spent three hours with ethics investigators. He sought to explain how his office dealt with the complaint from a former page about too-friendly e-mails from Foley.
GOP leaders are facing scrutiny over whether they or their aides did too little to stop Foley's inappropriate …
The governor of Massachusetts has named former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. to temporarily fill the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat.
Gov. Deval (deh-VAHL') Patrick's announcement Thursday means Kirk will serve in the post until voters pick a replacement in a Jan. 19 special election.
Patrick says the issues before Congress are "too important to Massachusetts for us to be one voice short."
Kirk is a Kennedy family friend who served on the late senator's staff for eight years and is chairman of the JFK Library Foundation.
Kennedy's widow, Vicki Kennedy, and son Edward Kennedy Jr. had urged Patrick to pick Kirk.
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She recently agreed to an offer that's roughly 37 percent below her initial asking price, joining many other sellers who've had to revamp their expectations in what remains an ailing housing market here.
A report from the Illinois Association of Realtors on Tuesday showed the end of federal tax credits and a continuing weak economy pushed home sales in the Chicago metropolitan area down 25.1 percent in July from a year earlier. And major market improvements aren't forecast soon.
The median price sank 9.6 percent to $193,000 from $213,500, the …
SsangYong Motor, South Korea's smallest and most obscure automaker, plans to sell sportutilities in the U.S. early next century, but it may look for cash here much sooner as it considers a major equity sale to GM. SsangYong is deep in debt after setting up to begin licensed productionof Mercedes-based cars and engines this summer.
SsangYolg Motors new president Lee Chong-Kyu, has offered up to 49% of the automaker to GM and other foreign companies. An investor would get access to the heavily protected Korean market ill addition to the automaker's R&D facilities, 4wd expertise and car and truck capacity.
SsangYong s debt is estimated at over $3.5 billion. …
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was freed unharmed three months after he vanished in a tribal area in Pakistan's border region, a foreign ministry official and a relative said Saturday.
Tariq Azizuddin disappeared Feb. 11 along with his driver and bodyguard as they drove from the Pakistani city of Peshawar toward the border.
In a video aired April 19 on an Arab satellite channel, Azizuddin said Taliban militants had abducted them.
His brother, Tahir Azizuddin, told The Associated Press that authorities informed the family on Saturday the ambassador had been released, was in good health and would be home soon.
The diplomat was …
