Admin | June 28, 2011
NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) – Graphic images of dead bodies, decaying teeth and a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck will cover half of the front of all cigarette packages by September 2012, United States health officials announced on Tuesday. The development comes as tobacco companies, including RJ Reynolds and Lorillard [...]
Admin | June 27, 2011
June 21, 2011 (Bloomberg) — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp owned stock in at least six of 13 publicly traded companies whose executives have testified before the tax- writing panel this year. Camps annual financial disclosure filing also shows he has holdings in eight of the 15 companies in a coalition of [...]
Admin | June 27, 2011
Air China Ltd. and China Petroleum amp; Chemical Corp. (386) are among companies withholding 20 percent of dividend payments to foreigners as they await guidance on how to handle the unwinding of a 17-year-old tax exemption. China’s State Administration of Taxation repealed in December a 1993 exemption from dividends tax for individual foreign holders listed [...]
Admin | June 26, 2011
Though its good news for the power companies involved — American Electric Power Co., Duke Energy Corp. (DUK), Xcel Energy Inc. (XEL), Southern Co. (SO), and the Tennessee Valley Authority — the effects of the latter decision seem limited: only six states were involved in the effort. (The decision does raise the stakes somewhat for [...]
Admin | June 26, 2011
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. – An early morning fire in Wesley Chapel had a family scrambling to save themselves and their pets. The fire broke out just after 4am on Crimson Clover Drive. When fire crews arrived the house was already fully involved with flames leaping out of the roof. Kiyon Ardalan was inside sleeping, and [...]
Admin | June 25, 2011
(Media-Newswire.com) – WASHINGTON ? The Humane Society of the United States praises Reps. Mike Doyle, D-Pa. and Chris Smith, R-NJ for introducing the Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2011 to finally put an end to animal dealers who round up dogs and cats?often stolen pets obtained through fraudulent means?and sell them for experimentation. The [...]
Admin | June 25, 2011
RALEIGH, NC – Fewer companies got tax breaks tailored specifically for them during the North Carolina Legislatures first session under Republican control in 140 years, but that didnt mean enticements for favored firms to create jobs went out the window. As this years main legislative session concluded this weekend, it was clear that the scale [...]
Admin | June 25, 2011
Moodus – An early morning blaze that began at approximately 7:20 am this morning, resulted in the total loss of a barn located at 60 Trowbridge Road in Moodus. Two family pets were tragically killed as a result of this fire as well. The East Haddam Volunteer Fire Department, along with several other towns responding [...]
Admin | June 24, 2011
Bumbershoot announces performing-arts lineup Advice columnist and gay activist Dan Savage, hip-hop writer Nelson George, Book-It Repertory Theatre and Spectrum Dance Theater were among the individuals and groups announced Wednesday on the performing-arts lineup for this years Bumbershoot festival. The annual celebration takes place Sept. 3-5 at Seattle Center. By Paul de Barros Seattle Times [...]
Admin | June 24, 2011
n>(Reuters) – Big cigarette makers could recoup $2 billion under a proposed deal with state attorneys general to resolve a long-running dispute over payments required by the landmark 1998 tobacco settlement, the Wall Street Journal reported. Negotiators for Altria Group Incs Philip Morris USA and other tobacco companies have reached a tentative deal with officials [...]