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Lottery axes spokesrodent, Gus the Groundhog

Some will mourn.

Alex Gorsky got J&J top job after leading medical-devices division

Alex Gorsky got the top job at J&J after leading several divisions that factor into the company's needs and hopes, including medical devices.

T-Mobile asks FCC to block Verizon-cable deal

T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon's planned purchase of spectrum from cable companies for $3.9 billion.

At Comcast, make room for Diddy … but what about Al Jazeera?

THE ARAB-based TV giant Al Jazeera has a decade-long love-hate relationship with the U.S. government, but the network - which includes the English-language Al Jazeera English, or AJE - proved its worth in 2011 with intrepid wall-to-wall coverage of the "Arab Spring" uprising.

Consumer-finance watchdog probes overdraft fees

The government's new consumer-watchdog agency is launching a probe into costly overdraft fees charged by big banks.

Does a Neighborhood Improvement District Tax Make Sense for an Area That Can’t Afford It?

Clasping a large ring of keys in one hand, 61-year-old Vivian VanStory darts across the corner of 15th and West Thompson streets—in the area just west of Temple—where she’s lived for the last three decades. Talking quickly during a tour around her neighborhood, she points to what...

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Housing Ordinance Barring Temple Students From Specific Areas Still Drawing Ire From Lawyers, Landlords

When is discrimination, well, not? According to local lawyer Chris Stouffer, when it’s OK’d by the city. Since 2008, Stouffer’s been fighting a city law he says does just that. The law in question is the 2004 “Yorktown Special District Controls” ordinance, written...

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Online sales-tax bill is introduced

TRENTON - A sales-tax exemption measure designed to encourage major online retailers to locate in New Jersey has been introduced in the Legislature.

Delaware attorney named executive director of DRBA

Scott A. Green, a Rehoboth Beach, Del., lawyer, was appointed Tuesday to be the executive director of the Delaware River and Bay Authority, which operates the Delaware Memorial Bridge and the Cape May-Lewes Ferry.

Savage Love

I am a straight 24-year-old female who has known my fiance since freshman year of college. He has a fetish where he likes to watch women use the bathroom. I knew this, having seen some of his porn early on, and I accepted it. We all have kinks. But while peeing in front of someone isn’t that...

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