Greenwich Time - HARTFORD, Conn. — Following are highlights of the proposed Democratic tax plan for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Unlike the version that passed the Senate, this proposal rolls back the state’s 25-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax this summer: - Personal

Workers’ suit highlights secrecy over 401(k) fees
Baltimore Sun - ‘Maxed Out’: Credit addictions ( Windows Media Player required ) ‘Maxed Out’: ‘I lost it all, because I was stupid’ ( Windows Media Player required ) ‘Maxed Out’: ‘I believe they’re exploiting college students’ ( Windows Media Player required

Britain’s Man Group To List Fund on NYSE
Wall Street Journal - LONDON — In a push to raise more money from U.S. investors, Man Group PLC, the world’s largest manager of hedge-fund assets, plans to list a hedge fund on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time. The move highlights a broader trend of hedge

Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights: Chiquita
MSN MoneyCentral - Kevin Matras explains why monitoring your stocks are as important as picking them. Stocks in this week’s article are Chiquita Brands International CQB , PRG-Schultz International Inc. PRGX and Synaptics Incorporated SYNA . Click here for the full

Australia and Philippines sign defense pact
CNN - Story Highlights Australian commandos to train Philippines troops to fight insurgents in south Pact won’t lead to Australian bases in Philippines Australian security forces could help with forensic work and disaster relief Australia to

Festival highlights creative use of flowers, gardens
Daily Oklahoman - The 16th annual Garden Festival in the Park will celebrate nature in bloom at Will Rogers Park on June 9. This Oklahoma Centennial event, which coincides with National Gardening Week, will feature flower and herb displays, decorative table settings

Coming Distractions: Summer Film Highlights
NPR News - Homer and crew put the “fun” in dysfunctional family. Now they’re finally on their way to the big screen in The Simpsons Movie . 20th Century Fox All Things Considered , May 28, 2007 With ogres, web-slingers, and pirates already battling for

History highlights | birthdays
Roanoke Times - On May 31, 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa. In 1819, poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hill, N.Y. In 1962, World War II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role

Everything Alabama - The Mobile Big Game Fishing Club’s 31st annual Memorial Day tournament saw 86 boats and nearly 400 anglers battle big seas and a nasty east wind all weekend while competing for more than $419,000 in cash awards and more than $20,000 in prizes

TV HIGHLIGHTS
Kansas City Star - Hidden Palms, 7 p.m., KCWE . Tessa Thompson plays Nikki in this new show. She was previously Jackie on Veronica Mars and was in the updated The Initiation of Sarah. One Tree Hill, 8 p.m., KCWE . They re letting this one play

Shiela: Cliffhanger x2
Carroll County Online - Once in bed, I used the fast forward feature to race through commercials, cut out boring commentary and catch the highlights of the show. Thank goodness it was the last night though I made it to the end I didn’t know who had won until this morning

Borders Group 1Q loss widens
BusinessWeek - Highlights include “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne and new fiction by James Patterson and Janet Evanovich, he said. Among big events in the current quarter is the July 21 release of the final Harry Potter novel. Borders said its revenue rose 2 percent to

Highlights of Crocker’s News Conference
NPR News - NPR.org , May 28, 2007 U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iranian Ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qumi met Monday in the Green Zone in Baghdad for four hours a rare meeting between high-ranking officials from the two nations. Following the session, at

Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: ASM Lithography and Varian
Forbes - Zacks.com releases the latest Analyst Interview. Today’s interview is with senior analyst Ken Nagy, who discusses ASM Lithography (Nasdaq: ASML) and Varian Semiconductor (Nasdaq: VSEA). A synopsis of today’s Analyst Interview is presented below. The

Berkshire Eagle - 100 meters Wyatt Demo, Drury 11.38. Mile Steve Ferro, Hoosac Valley, 4:35.06.s 400 Aaron Castonguay, Mount Greylock, 51.13. 800 Joe Baisch, Mount Greylock, 1:58.24. 4-x-800 relay Drury (Nick Andrews, Tony Milazzo, Ethan Cohane

Iraq: UN report highlights plight of over 800,000 IDPs
YubaNet - Escalating fighting and sectarian violence are forcing hundreds of families in Iraq to flee their homes on a daily basis, aid agencies say. According to a report released on Sunday by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), an estimated 822,810

Gain Access to Consumer Data to Understand the Behavior and Needs of
Forbes - Highlights of this title: The typical size of an unsecured personal loan is likely to fall between GBP 5,000 and GBP 9,999. Indeed, 32 per cent of the sample surveyed stated that the original size of the loan fell within this size range. In recent

Dixon highlights additions
Hampton Roads Daily Press - HAMPTON — A Hampton University football recruiting class, rated its best in four years, has become perhaps as good as any in school history with the recent addition of seven players. The cream of the crop is wide receiver Reggie Dixon, a speedster

Financial Highlights
Earthtimes - — The Company reported Net Income of $66.4 million or $1.87 per share, for the first quarter of 2007. Included in the first quarter results is a capital gain on the sale of three vessels of $30.5 million or $0.86 per share. Excluding this gain Net

Palm Beach Post - Stan Van Gundy wants his job back. Not the one as head coach of the Miami Heat - been there, done that and why he quit in the first place doesn’t much matter anymore - but one as an NBA bench boss somewhere. Orlando, for example, would be nice. Just

Jake not happy with Bok forwards
Independent Online - Pierre Spies made an immediate impact with his pace and explosiveness when he came off the bench in the second half, and White should start with him at his home ground. Marauding flank Schalk Burger, returning to Test rugby after a serious neck injury

If Perlozzo goes, Johnson may return
Baltimore Sun - He was the bench coach for the U.S. team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and is managing the American team in its quest to qualify for next year’s Summer Olympics. To this point, the Orioles, according to sources, have not had significant

Cavaliers’ Snow is a coach in the making
Detroit News - He even sits on the bench without complaint. Doesn’t that sound like a coach in the making? Do you want to know how well respected he is? When Snow got into an argument with former Cavaliers coach Paul Silas two seasons ago and was sent to the dressing

Cemetery visits bring family comfort
Wichita Eagle - A bench made of a black stone imported from Zimbabwe marks her grave. Frank makes a point of marking the important days: her birthday, their anniversary and Memorial Day. But he’s just as likely to stop by to talk to his wife of 49 years after a golf

Belliard Rings Up The Cards
Washington Post - Though he has returned to the bench since shortstop Cristian Guzman came back from a hamstring injury this month, he has spelled regulars at second, short and first. “I’ll play anywhere,” Belliard said. “He’s pretty much an everyday guy sitting on our

Vincent replaces Bickerstaff on Bobcats’ bench
ESPN.com - CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sam Vincent has officially been named the head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats. He replaces Bernie Bickerstaff. Vincent was an assistant coach with the Dallas Mavericks last season. “We are extremely pleased to welcome Sam into our

Make a trade for Horry - then bench him forever
AZCentral.com - OK, I have an idea. The Suns should trade to get San Antonio’s Robert Horry. Then, they bench him - forever. Never play him again for the rest of his career. And, while he’s on the bench, he would have to wear a shirt with a target on the back so

A Political Catchphrase, Coming In Off the Bench
Washington Post - We used to have goals. Remember goals? Sending a man to the moon? Or how about ending poverty or balancing the budget? Now we have “benchmarks.” Like “surge” or “insurgents,” it’s become part of our everyday language when we’re talking about Iraq

Ledger - It was a team that remained fiercely loyal to its previous coach, a man the players felt unfairly lost his job as a result of the since-discredited allegations. Yet the easygoing Danowski has become nothing but a success - he’s on the verge of leading

Notebook: Pronger growing tired of fatigue questions
CBS Sportsline - Doing so is the responsibility of Ducks coach Randy Carlyle, who said his use of a short bench is overemphasized. “We found ways to get through that with the amount of timeouts and breaks you do have in the game,” Carlyle said. “If you

Country Coach finds new niche with ‘Rhapsody’
OregonLive.com - JUNCTION CITY, Ore. (AP) What do you call a $1.3 million motor coach so powerful it can burn rubber, so luxurious it features two bathrooms, so over-the-top it boasts no fewer than four flat-screen televisions and two home-theater systems? You

ESPN.com’s Cup Central: Keys to Game 1
ESPN.com - Coach Randy Carlyle would love to see a repeat of the Western Conference finals, where the tight checking of Samuel Pahlsson , Travis Moen and Rob Niedermayer forced Detroit coach Mike Babcock to split up his dynamic tandem of Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik

Hill Out As Coach of Orlando Magic
Associated Press - ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Brian Hill is out as the Orlando Magic’s coach after two consecutive losing seasons and a first-round sweep in this year’s playoffs. It was unclear whether Hill was fired or resigned Wednesday, with the team releasing a

Season’s worst loss for Spurs
ESPN.com - To be down against this team 2-zip and then come back and have to do whatever you have to do to win, I thought our guys were able to do that,” Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. “Hopefully it gets their confidence up.” Derek Fisher , Andrei Kirilenko , Jarron

NU coach, players try for a 3-peat
Chicago Sun-Times - PHILADELPHIA — Kelly Amonte Hiller learned resiliency playing basketball against her older brothers. When she beat one of them at 1-on-1, the game got physical. ”They beat me up,” she said. ”I was pretty good at hoops. They were more hockey guys

Boston Online - Both were assigned to the Army First Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, Third Brigade Combat Team, Third Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga. Three soldiers were killed on May 17 in Iskandariya: Sergeant First Class Jesse B. Albrecht, 31, of Hager

Unbeateb Jasper tennis team returns to state
Evansville Courier-Press - A wealth of depth and senior leadership has lifted the Jasper High School girls’ tennis team to the state finals for the first time since 2003. The No. 4 Wildcats blanked Terre Haute South 5-0 in the championship match of the Jasper Semistate on

Dingledine heads Super-State soccer team
Lincoln Journal Star - The phone rang shortly after the evening news. A friend called me after stumbling upon the television highlights from the Lincoln East boys soccer team s game against Millard West in this year s state tournament. This friend can count the number

Miandad open to coaching Pak team again
Deccan Herald - Miandad, who has coached senior team on three separate terms but was removed acrimoniously on all occasions, said he had always kept national interest above everything else. Former Pakistan captain and coach Javed Miandad is ready to give a serious

Climber who was rescued on Mt Everest says she was abandoned by team
MSN UK News - A woman who was rescued from Mount Everest’s “death zone” by fellow mountaineers said Sunday she was abandoned by her teammates at a high altitude and left by her guide when she fell sick. Usha Bista, 22, said her own Sherpa guide left her near the

Cavaliers’ Snow is a coach in the making
Detroit News - But he figured out quickly that the NBA lacks leadership and men who can lead a team properly. He survives because he outthinks the next guy. It has allowed him to provide for his family, with three different teams. He does what others do not want to

Packers exec Harlan delays retirement as successor takes leave
Detroit News - The Packers announced Saturday that Jones is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the team because of “management concerns.” In a hastily arranged news conference, Packers executive committee member Peter Platten said he could not provide

We’ve got secret of Hendrick team
Charlotte.com - Rick Hendrick has a secret. His teams have won an astounding eight of the past nine Nextel Cup races and could make it nine of 10 in the Coca-Cola 600 today. Such success can’t be about equipment and knowledge and talent, not with so many other teams

Audit team probes Fisheries
Fiji Times - Update: 6.25pm A TEAM of auditors from the Fiji Independent Commission against Corruption is looking into the affairs of the Fisheries Department. FICAC chief investigator Superintendent Nasir Ali said he was aware an audit team was conducting

Sam Carchidi | Competition for post not scaring Raffa
Philadelphia Daily News - In Athlon Magazine’s preseason top 25, you’ll find Rutgers listed as the No. 10 team in the United States. The Scarlet Knights return 14 starters from last season’s 11-1 team that finished No. 12 in the nation and won the Texas Bowl with a 37-10 win

Forbes - The game was a gem for seven innings, with the New York Mets and Florida Marlins scoreless. Florida’s wobbly defense ended the pitchers’ duel. The Mets scored their first two runs on errors, and Carlos Beltran’s two-run double broke the game open to

Marlins manager Gonzalez suspended 1 game
Florida Times-Union - MIAMI - Florida Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez served a one-game suspension Friday night for going onto the field during a bench-clearing confrontation one inning after he was ejected. Florida’s first-year manager was ejected for the first time

Water-gun game: harmless fun or in bad taste?
Boston Globe - NEWTON — At 6:45 a.m. they planned their ambush and hid with weapons drawn, Jared Schy with his compact purple 3-for-99-cents water gun, Jeremy Glissen-Brown with a bulkier blue and orange Buzz Bee Toys special. When the target walked out her front

Pennsylvania Game Commission Loses Building at Game Farm to Fire
Forbes - HARRISBURG, Pa., May 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Fire destroyed one of four brooder houses used in pheasant propagation at the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Loyalsock Game Farm near Montoursville, Lycoming County, yesterday afternoon. One employee

Titans center calls idea for 17th game ’stupid’
Nashville Tennessean - An extra week of football might sound like a slice of heaven to most NFL fans. But not everyone is in love with the idea of 17 regular season games, which is being considered by the NFL and was briefly discussed at the league’s spring meeting on

Road could work in Pistons’ favor
Detroit News - You have to believe the Pistons will put together a complete game in one of the next two games at Quicken Loans Arena. That’s what they’ll need to do to all but secure this series and their third trip to the NBA Finals in four years. The Pistons haven

Game 1: Monday, Ottawa at Anaheim, 8 p.m. ET; TV: Versus, CBC, RDS
USA Today - Game 2: Wednesday: Ottawa at Anaheim, 8 p.m. ET; TV: Versus, CBC, RDS Game 3: Saturday, June 2: Anaheim at Ottawa, 8 p.m. ET; TV: NBC, CBC, RDS Game 4: Monday, June 4: Anaheim at Ottawa, 8 p.m. ET; TV: NBC, CBC, RDS Game 5: Wednesday, June 6: Ottawa

Baylor one win from championship game
Houston Chronicle - OKLAHOMA CITY Baylor endured a rugged regular season, one that included four three-game losing streaks and a run-of-the-mill record. So following the sixth-seeded Bears’ surprising 10-5 victory over second-seeded Missouri on Friday in the Big 12

Boston Globe - NEWTON — At 6:45 a.m. they planned their ambush and hid with weapons drawn, Jared Schy with his compact purple 3-for-99-cents water gun, Jeremy Glissen-Brown with a bulkier blue and orange Buzz Bee Toys special. When the target walked out her front

Griffey passes Killebrew in loss
FOXSports.com - It’s a strange game,” said Xavier Nady , who singled home a run during the rally. “Everybody here has been struggling.” The Pirates had lost five in a row largely because they couldn’t get a hit with the bases loaded. They finally broke out against a

Tribe Move Ahead of Tigs in AL Central
Baltimore Sun - The game was the first of seven between the AL Central’s top teams in the next 10 days. The Indians’ victory gave them a half-game lead over Detroit. “This was a nice game,” Indians manager Eric Wedge said. “We had a lot of good things happen tonight

Matsui Helps Rockies Defeat Giants 5-3
Forbes - That’s how the game goes,” Colorado manager Clint Hurdle said. “He had four at-bats and wasn’t able to square anything up and he made a swing on that pitch, got himself in scoring position and scored a run.” Matsui stole second and scored on Matt

ESPN.com - Houston needs points out of its guards, and Shields delivered with 19 off the bench in her WNBA debut. 10 (11) New York Liberty 1-0 Talk about pressure. The young Liberty, in front of their fans, opened the season and post-Becky Hammon era versus a team

Little Leaguer doesn’t let his prosthetic legs keep him on bench
Ledger - ORLANDO, Fla. When Anthony Burruto was a baby, doctors amputated his lower legs. He was born without a shinbone in his left leg and without a fibula in his right leg. The physicians said surgery eventually would allow Anthony to walk. He does a lot

Shevchenko, Rebrov out of France qualifier
FOXSports.com - My biggest worry is that some of our players are lacking match practice at their respective clubs, mostly sitting on the substitutes’ bench,” national coach Oleh Blohin said. Ukraine, which reached the World Cup quarterfinals last year, heads Group B

Pistons recall being pushed in ‘06 playoffs
FOXSports.com - They have more people they can go to, they play their bench more and they always seem to have someone who comes up big for them.” James acknowledged his teammates played a big role in lifting Cleveland to the conference finals for the first time since

Mintz Levin Expands Private Equity Practice with Addition of Len J
Forbes - He is an excellent addition to our deep bench of more than 100 talented corporate and securities attorneys across the firm’s eight offices who have earned an outstanding reputation for consistently impressive transactional capabilities on matters

USA s Collins Named Semifinalist for Johnny Bench Award
Sun Belt Conference - WICHITA , Kan. South Alabama junior catcher Joel Collins has been selected as one of the top 10 Division I catchers in the nation, as the semi finalists for the 2007 Coleman Company-Johnny Bench Award delivered by AT&T were announced in Wichita

Down and out?
Detroit Free Press - Now Datsyuk skated to the penalty box, and the Ducks’ goalie, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, skated to the bench. Suddenly, it was six skaters to four. An empty net on one side. A desperate defense on the other. One hundred seven seconds. The puck was dropped

Kansas City Star - Back in the 1920s, the legend of Chet Gamble was born. He was a young man in Greensburg who loved football but didn t care too much about school, so he enrolled every fall to play on the team and dropped out at the end of the season. Gamble

Rosenior out after ‘10 minutes’
BBC News - Leroy Rosenior has broken the record for English football’s shortest managerial reign. BBC Five Live understands Rosenior lost his job at Torquay just 10 minutes after being introduced as the Devon club’s new manager on Thursday. Chairman Mike

College Football
American Reporter - LOS ANGELES — The 2005 college football season is right around the corner. Pete Carroll’s University of Southern California Trojans completed the most perfect season in collegiate football history in 2004 and enter the new campaign bidding for three

With winning came healing
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - TAMPA From her place in the bleachers each week, Julie Marve Thompson would zero in on her son and let her emotions run wild. In the opening game of the 2006 football season, quarterback Robert Marve led Tampa’s Plant High to a 35-0 victory. Three

Football: Chelsea 1 - 0 Manchester United
Observer - The Premiership’s two most accomplished teams have already slugged it out for the best part of nine months for one piece of silver. This final quest was like a microcosm of the title race: long, exhausting and with very little in it. Wembley yearned

Notable:Ex-MSU, EMU coach Boisture dies at 82
Detroit News - Danny Boisture, a former Michigan State assistant and Eastern Michigan football coach, died Friday from complications stemming from a blood disorder. He was 82. Boisture was a standout receiver at the University of Detroit before entering coaching