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• Man out-spits dad for title
Krause's winning spit on Saturday was 56 feet, 7 1/2 inches. That's 6 1/2 inches better than his father, the second-place finisher and defending champion, 54-year-old Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause of Tuba City, Ariz., who spit 56 feet, 1 inch.
• Answer Desk: How bad is the economy?
A war, a soft housing market with declining home prices in some areas, a gloomy consumer and a jobless rate that hit 7.8 percent before the economy began to recover. (The current rate is 5.5 percent.
• Bank fined over $7.8B rogue trader scandal
Jan. 24: According to French news reports, Jerome Kerviel — the rogue trader who took French bank Societe Generale for $7.14 billion — is missing. NBC's Ned Colt reports. PARIS - France's central bank announced Friday that it has fined Societe ...
• Superhero ‘Hancock’ saves day at box office
The top 12 movies pulled in $158.7 million, down 4 percent from the Fourth of July weekend last year, when “Transformers” opened at No. 1 with $70.5 million, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.
• Investors’ new worry: Second-quarter earnings
Financial stocks last year contributed $60.7 billion of earnings to the overall S&P, and this time around the number is expected at $24.6 billion, according to S&P.