Another day — another Ponzi scheme:The SEC obtained an emergency court order halting a $68 million Ponzi scheme involving the sale of fictitious high-yield certificates of deposit (CDs) by Caribbean-based Millennium Bank. The SEC alleges that the scheme targeted U.S.
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Raleigh Business Court To Relocate To Campbell University’s Law School In Fall 2009
The North Carolina Business Court in Raleigh will be relocating to Campbell University’s Law School. The move will happen in Fall 2009, when the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law finishes its own relocation, from Buies Creek to Raleigh.
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Gas Tax Code Hurts Nonprofits
Charities in Raleigh, NC that provide transportation services say they have been hurt by federal law that reimburses their volunteers at a lower rate than business travelers.Individuals who drive their cars for business or nonprofit purposes can itemize that expense…
Subscriber Sues Newspaper for Staff Cuts
Raleigh, North Carolina’s ‘s News & Observer reports that Raleigh’s News & Observer is being sued by a subscriber angered by new staff cuts. Durham attorney Keith Hempstead alleges that he renewed his subscription just before the newspaper announced that…
Hunting, pardons and a Second Amendment claim?
Main December 26, 2007Hunting, pardons and a Second Amendment claim?This local article from North Carolina has me thinking again about whether a few felons might have a viable constitutional claim if (when?) the Supreme Court decides that the Second…
Yellow page ad sales declining
Looks like it’s not only law firms pulling out of the yellow pages. The Raleigh News & Observer’s David Ranni reports R.H. Donnelley shares fell 12 percent Tuesday upon the announcement of disappointing third-quarter advertising sales for its yellow pages…
North Carolina Provides Free Progesterone Shots to Low Income Pregnant Women
Via Kaiser Daily Women’s Health Policy (9/7/07):A program launched in North Carolina in January to provide no-costprogesterone shots to low-income and uninsured pregnant women at riskof preterm birth might significantly affect the state’s infantmortality rate, but results of the initiative…
Detoxification and colon therapy seminar
The Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine will discuss detoxification and colon therapy.…
With NC execution stays, “these go to 11”
Main January 26, 2007With NC execution stays, “these go to 11” Henry Weinstein has this Los Angeles Times article today providing more details on yesterday’s state judge ruling to stay “two executions in North Carolina, creating a de facto moratorium…
E. coli outbreak at UNC: Possible source found
The Daily Tarheel reports that the Orange County Health Department is focusing its E. coli outbreak investigation on McAlister’s Deli, a restaurant on Franklin Street in Raleigh.
Officials at the health department stated in a press release that six out…