VOL. 124 | NO. 198 | Thursday, October 8, 2009
Wharton still considered front-runner in mayor’s race
Myron Lowery has about a week to go in his tenure as Memphis’ mayor pro tem depending on how long it takes to certify the Oct. 15 election results.
The Tennessee Bar Association is continuing the access to justice fight by decreeing October “Celebrate Pro Bono Month.”
Workers began dismantling the Grand Carousel this week at what used to be Libertyland.
Eric J. Loumeau joined Bass, Berry & Sims PLC earlier this year as a partner. Loumeau concentrates his practice on corporate finance, securities, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. He has experience counseling public and private companies in the life sciences, software, information technology, telecommunications and retail industries.
STATE LEGISLATURE
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The two major candidates in a special election to fill a key vacancy in the state House have nearly matched each other in campaign spending so far.
STATEWIDE
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A hearing on a bill to ban the importation of foreign nuclear waste has been set for Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The legal battle over a ban on the Confederate flag at one East Tennessee high school is over.
NATIONAL BUSINESS
SPRINGDALE, Ohio (AP) - Ice cream swooshes out of metal nozzles and swirls into 38,000 "party pails" per day here, one of many ways Kroger Co. is using its massive manufacturing capability to feed growing demand for low-priced store brands.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumers reduced their borrowing for the seventh straight month in August, as households worked to pay off debt and banks reduced credit card limits.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has agreed to sell a 40 percent stake in a portfolio of Corus Bank assets for $554.4 million to a private-equity consortium led by Starwood Capital Group.
NATIONAL POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided between conservatives and liberals Wednesday over whether a cross on federal parkland in California violates the U.S. Constitution.
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans failed Wednesday for a third time to oust Rep. Charles Rangel as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, but they kept the political spotlight on his ethical problems.