Liberty News
Layoffs Rise For Third Month Running
CHICAGO, Aug. 3 (UPI) — U.S. companies announced 66,414 layoffs in July, the highest total in 16 months, a private consulting firm said Wednesday. After a first half of the year with announced job losses the lowest since 2000, international outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said July’s announced layoffs rose 60 percent over the […]
Dozens Charged In Online Child Porn Ring
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) — Six dozen people were charged with participating in an online child pornography ring that spanned five continents, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the unsealing of three indictments and one complaint charging 72 people for their participation […]
Factory Orders Off 0.8 Percent In June
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) — U.S. factory orders fell 0.8 percent in June, twice the drop economists expected, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Economists expected factory orders to fall 0.4 percent. Orders fell for the second month out of the past three, dropping by $3.8 billion to $440.7 billion. Excluding transportation items, orders rose […]
Police Search Dead Girl's N.H. Home
WEST STEWARTSTOWN, N.H., Aug. 3 (UPI) — New Hampshire State Police Wednesday searched the house where Celina Cass, whose body was found earlier this week, lived with her mother and stepfather. The 11-year-old girl’s death is being treated as “suspicious,” The Boston Globe reported. Celina’s body was found Monday in the Connecticut River a week […]
Police Search Dead Girl’s N.H. Home
WEST STEWARTSTOWN, N.H., Aug. 3 (UPI) — New Hampshire State Police Wednesday searched the house where Celina Cass, whose body was found earlier this week, lived with her mother and stepfather. The 11-year-old girl’s death is being treated as “suspicious,” The Boston Globe reported. Celina’s body was found Monday in the Connecticut River a week […]
Missing Student Search Moves To Landfill
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 3 (UPI) — Indiana officials say a search for a missing college student may move to a landfill that receives trash from Bloomington, where the missing woman was last seen. The company owning the Vigo County landfill says it is cooperating with the FBI in the search for Indiana University student Lauren Spierer, […]
Fugitive In $5.7 Million Theft Arrested
LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 3 (UPI) — Massachusetts police say they arrested a fugitive charged in the theft of $5.7 million from Columbia University in a “large-scale white-collar” Internet crime. Police in Lawrence, Mass., acting on information from New York City detectives, arrested Jeremy Dieudonne, 46, a Haitian man using the stolen Puerto Rican identity of […]
Canadian Politico Member Of Three Parties
OTTAWA, Aug. 3 (UPI) — The new interim leader of Canada’s socialist New Democratic Party was busy Wednesday explaining how she was a member of three political parties at once. Nycole Turmel was named interim leader of the NDP last Thursday by Jack Layton, who went on a leave of absence for cancer treatment. She […]
Judge Rules In Dispute Over Whale's Fate
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 3 (UPI) — A killer whale will remain in the Netherlands pending further considerations of her eventual fate, a judge in Amsterdam has ruled. Last week, the Dutch government granted an export license to the Dolfinarium in Hardewijk, where Morgan a female orca, has lived since being found in a severely weakened […]
Judge Rules In Dispute Over Whale’s Fate
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 3 (UPI) — A killer whale will remain in the Netherlands pending further considerations of her eventual fate, a judge in Amsterdam has ruled. Last week, the Dutch government granted an export license to the Dolfinarium in Hardewijk, where Morgan a female orca, has lived since being found in a severely weakened […]
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