Finance Law

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The proximity of the two occasions poses a particular challenge for Virginia and for the university in Lexington named in equal parts for the founding father and the Confederate commander. Lee served as the school’s president after the Civil War and set it on a course toward national prestige in the liberal arts. For more [...]

CONCORD — Clayton Valley High’s conversion to a charter school in the fall is prompting discussions at the state level about funding inequities that could result under current laws. Mt. Diablo Unified School District Superintendent Steven Lawrence testified Wednesday before the state Assembly Education Committee in support of AB 1172, which aims to address the [...]

January 16, 2012 4:04 am By Miles Johnson in Madrid

A hearing into allegations of the biggest case of corporate fraud in New Zealand promises to be a drawn-out affair. At a brief initial hearing of 21 charges against five people associated with the collapse of South Canterbury Finance (SCF) in 2010 at the District Court at Timaru today, Judge Joanna Maze granted adjournment and [...]

Joe Polakiewicz speaks out for teen auto safety at an Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety press conference in Washington, D.C. Polakiewicz became an advocate on the importance of safe driving following his own severe auto accident in October 2010. Looking on is his mother, Nancy. (Elijah Herington/ SHFWire) WASHINGTON — Tennessee was one of [...]

Bank of America told Federal Reserve officials in June that it could shed branches in some parts of the country if it needed to raise capital in an emergency, a person familiar with the matter said. The proposal was part of a series of options provided to the Fed, including issuing a tracking stock for [...]

AAP The biggest alleged corporate fraud case in New Zealand history will be called for the first time in Timaru on Monday. The NZ Serious Fraud Office (SFO) laid 21 charges against five individuals involved with South Canterbury Finance’s affairs in December after the finance company was placed in receivership on August 31, 2010, owing [...]

Prize-winning Jamaican writer, Olive Senior, will conduct a workshop, Creating Memorable Characters in Prose or Poetry, on developing techniques for effective characterisation in prose and creating poetic personae to evoke emotionally difficult and complicated subject matter.Senior is on the faculty of the Humber School for Writers, Toronto, and she is a highly sought-after teacher of [...]

Fluke Fluker walks down the halls of Cleveland High School Friday like he owns the place. “Hey, Mr. Fluker, nice tie.” “Hey, Mr. Fluker, how’s it going?” “It’s all good,” the 6-foot-7-inch, 260-pound teacher says, smiling and nodding good morning to another group of students falling in behind him to walk down the hallway in [...]