Unemployment Taxes Slam Businesses The National Association of State Workforce Agencies report that at least 35 states will pay higher unemployment taxes in 2010. The report showed the median increase will be 27.5% for most employers, while businesses in Hawaii and Florida could see increases 10 times more than their current tax. State trust funds have been depleted, causing 26 states to borrow a total of more than $30 billion from the federal government with numbers expected to grow to 40 stat... [More]
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A biology professor charged in the killings of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville was initially a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor and killed her brother in 1986 after firing a shotgun 3 times. Amy Bishop Anderson and her husband, Jim, were questioned after a package containing two pipe bombs was sent to the Newton, Massachusetts, home of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, a Harvard professor and a doctor at Children'... [More]
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Pittsboro, N.C. — The families of two elderly women who were beaten to death more than two years ago at an upscale retirement community in Chatham County have filed suit against the development. Margaret Murta, 92, and Mary Corcoran, 82, were killed on Dec. 5, 2007, at Galloway Ridge at Fearrington, off U.S. Highway 15/501 north of Pittsboro. Authorities said their housekeeper doused them with pepper spray and beat them with a cane during a dispute over forged checks. The hou... [More]
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Missouri House OKs drug tests for public officials, some welfare recipients Missouri's elected officials and many people who receive cash welfare benefits would start undergoing drug screening under legislation given first-round House approval Thursday. Lawmakers, judges and other state officeholders would receive drug tests before taking office and every two years after that. The officials would pay for the tests, and refusing one would be considered an admission... [More]
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Partial court document below this blog LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors say ESPN reporter Erin Andrews' peephole stalker ran background checks on other female sports reporters. Although no other celebrities were secretly filmed by Michael Barrett, about 16 other women were "victimized ... in almost precisely the same way that he victimized" Andrews, according to a sentencing memorandum filed in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles. The names of those who... [More]
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