Archive for April 13th, 2007

Column: Two camps aimed at youth (The Beaver County Times)

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Summer is for fishing, picnics, swimming and spending time outdoors. All of these and more are available to the young sportsmen and women of our area at two summer camps this year.

Taking the lead (Times Online)

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Deep in the Forest of Dean, on a crisp March morning, 120 dog owners are gathered for the start of a race. Event organisers have marked out a 5km (3mile) course around the Gloucestershire forest and now a crowd is gathered at the starting line, where two Siberian huskies strain in their harnesses.

Appeals court considers penalty for ex-Wal-Mart executive (Rolla Daily News)

Friday, April 13th, 2007

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former top executive at Wal-Mart got off too easy when he was sentenced to home confinement for defrauding the nation’s largest retailer, the U.S. attorney for Arkansas told a federal appeals court in St. Louis Thursday.

U.S. attorney: Coughlin term too light (NWAnews.com)

Friday, April 13th, 2007

ST. LOUIS — A former top executive at Wal-Mart got off too easy when he was sentenced to home confinement for defrauding the nation’s largest retailer, the U.S. attorney for western Arkansas told a federal appeals court Thursday. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

Court sends Wal-Mart case back to jury (The Plain Dealer)

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Little Rock, Ark.- The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a jury should decide whether former Wal-Mart executive Tom Coughlin, convicted of fraud, should be able to keep the multimillion-dollar retirement package he negotiated with the world’s largest retailer.