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Mark Sells is back in the saddle again. Sells, who has been associated with the Rolla High School wrestling team longer than anyone else in program history, is beginning his second stint as Bulldog wrestling head coach. The Rolla Board of Education approved the move during Thursday’s regularly-scheduled meeting. Serving as Sells’ assistant coach will [...]

Only a few weeks ago, Triumph Bank loaned money to an expanding Memphis wholesaler. And Independent Bank, the second-largest lender based in Memphis, booked loans for two separate hotel deals. Some homegrown banks are making more business loans. But most borrowers and bankers remain wary. The overall pace of business lending appears flat across greater [...]

More anecdotal proof that small businesses are started by women, immigrants and corporate castaways: After more than 20 years, it was time to go in early 2011 for Patty Bremer, director of finance and accounting, when the regional office of Boston Scientific merged Bremer’s cardio intervention business with another business unit. Bremer, whose husband has [...]

Knox County Public Defender Jim Harrell has been named a Top 100 trial lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association. Harrell, who was licensed to practice law in 1989, has served as Chief Defense Council for Knox County since 1991. He has worked closely with members of the judiciary in the Ninth Judicial Circuit. He [...]

Bullies Amount To Nothing: What will Mitt Romney’s Teenagehood Do To a Parental Narrative? Joshua Gans Contributor Are Parents Addicted To Spying On Their Kids? Kashmir Hill Forbes Staff Apparently in one school in Queensland, Australia, it might do just that. I’d like to say that this news story surprised me but, at some level, it didn’t. [...]

It’s official: First Niagara Financial Group has taken over most of HSBC’s upstate New York retail banking business, bolstering its workforce by 1,200 and its customer base by 500,000. “We’re fired up to have new employees and customers,” said Scott Fisher, senior vice president and retail channels director. “First Niagara is poised to be a [...]

Editor’s note: Ingo Walter is the Seymour Milstein professor of finance, corporate governance and ethics, and Jennifer Carpenter is an associate professor of finance in the Stern School of Business at New York University. (CNN) — Here we go again. The perennial question of: “Would you rather own shares in a major financial conglomerate or [...]

Many law students have no intention of becoming lawyers. Photo: Louise Kennerley ALMOST two-thirds of Australia’s law graduates are not working as lawyers four months after they have completed their degrees, according to a study. The Graduate Careers Australia survey of 1313 recent graduates from all over the country found that 64 per cent were [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High school kids in California, a state that limits the junk food sold in vending machines, eat fewer calories in school than kids in states without such regulations, according to a new study. “We were definitely pleased by the size of the differences, particularly for calories and sugar,” said Daniel [...]