An organization focused on promoting tourism in the south and southwestern suburbs, Visit Chicago Southland, has named Mary Patchin as its new CEO and president to begin next month. Mary Patchin, who was promoted from vice president of sales and has worked for the organization for 25 years, will replace retiring CEO and President Jim […]
Jun. 6—Tony Charles Davenport’s attorneys were able to convince a jury earlier this year that a March 2022 home invasion that led to one death and the wounding of two others was not a willful shooting. Instead, the defense team of Crossville attorneys Jeff Vires and Joe Wyatt described it as a combination of anger […]
Over the last century, Wall Street has been a virtually unstoppable wealth creator for patient investors. Although other asset classes have helped build nominal wealth, such as oil, gold, bonds, and housing, none comes close to the annualized average returns over the last 100 years that stocks have brought to the table. With thousands of […]
ASHEVILLE — The Asheville Police Department announced Sean Aardema will be taking over as the second of two deputy chiefs, a position left open when Mike Lamb was promoted to chief earlier this year. A nearly 25-year veteran on the force, Aardema will oversee APD’s operations as supervisor of the Criminal Investigations Division, Community Engagement […]
Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence of 25 years puts him in the same league as other well-known financial fraudsters, including, clockwise from upper left, Bernie Madoff, Lawrence Duran, Bernie Ebbers, Allen Stanford and Jeffrey Skilling. – MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images With a sentence of 25 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried joins a list of notorious white-collar criminals […]
Sam Bankman-Fried, the jailed founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, sits with his lawyers Torrey Young and Marc Mukasey.REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers claimed that FTX customers had “zero” losses when the exchange collapsed. They argued in favor of a light sentence for the convicted crypto mogul on Thursday. The judge was not persuaded. The federal […]
The attack on a Moscow concert hall in which armed men opened fire and set the building ablaze, killing at least 133 people, was the latest in a series of bombings and sieges that have unsettled and outraged Russians during Vladimir Putin’s nearly quarter-century as either prime minister or president. Friday’s attack on the Crocus […]
The attack on a Moscow concert hall where armed men opened fire and set the building ablaze, killing at least 133 people, was the latest in a long series of bombings and sieges that have unsettled and outraged Russians during Vladimir Putin‘s nearly quarter-century as either prime minister or president. Friday’s attack on the Crocus […]