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• Venezuela shuts down nearly all McDonald’s
CARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan government has ordered nearly all McDonald's restaurants in the country closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the fast-food chain's financial books. The tax agency said it ordered more than 100 ...
• Tim Montgomery gets five years for heroin
Tim Montgomery won an Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay at the 2000 games and a silver in the same event four years earlier. A doping scandal wiped his achievements from the books. The Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. - Former track star Tim ...
• IMF chief warns of global financial meltdown
The goal was to remove troubled assets from those institutions' books and inspire them to restart more normal lending operations. Congress passed the massive and hard-fought legislation, and Bush signed it. The government raised the amount of bank ...
• Opus’ creator to retire from comic strips
The last strip of “Opus,” the beloved, large-beaked penguin, will run in about 200 newspapers nationwide Nov. 2. Amy Lago, comics editor of The Washington Post Writers Group, said Breathed will pursue other interests, such as writing books and ...
• Prisoners learn poise courtesy of Dale Carnegie
The prison pays nothing to Carnegie — inmates study from old books and a series of photocopied worksheets that have been handed down over the years. Two of the books date back to the founding of the club and some paperbacks are at least a decade old