New Jersey governor proposes $812M in budget cuts - MSN MoneyCentral
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Aid to New Jersey cities and schools is on the chopping block as Gov. Jon S. Corzine unveiled his ideas Monday for proposed cuts to help bridge the state's $2.1 billion budget gap. A total of $812 million in spending is being ...

No. 18 Louisville drops Kentucky 74-71 - Louisville Courier-Journal
The last meeting for the universities of Louisville and Kentucky in Freedom Hall provided a lasting impression for the Dream Game series. UK erased a seven-point deficit in 15 seconds, only to watch Edgar Sosa drill a 25-foot three-pointer with 2.3 ...

Meltdown 'ripe for marital dysfunction' - CNEWS
MONTREAL - As the economic meltdown deepens, some debt counsellors are reporting a rise in the number of clients threatening divorce, while mental health experts warn tough economic times often lead to higher rates of depression and family violence ...

Twitter Has Security Meltdown - TechWeb
The microblogging site recommends users reset their passwords and verify their e-mail addresses because of a phishing campaign directed at its users and the hacking of its support software. Twitter's security melted down on Monday in the face of a ...

AC slams OBJ over comments on global financial meltdown - Vanguard
The Action Congress (AC) has described as a gratuitous insult to all Nigerians the comments credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Nigerians should brace up for tough times in 2009 because of the global economic recession. In a statement ...

We ain’t seen nothing yet, economists say of meltdown - Prince Edward Island Guardian
PARIS — Five prominent economists who correctly predicted the 2008 world economic meltdown say the crisis is only going to get worse. “Beware the happy talk from those who say we are ‘turning the corner,’” writes Dean Baker of the ...

California Earthquake Would Accelerate US Mortgage Meltdown Reveals ... - Earthtimes
CHICAGO and LONDON , Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In light of current economic conditions, a major catastrophe such as an earthquake in California would bring new misery to both US and international financiers, according to an analysis released ...

Full disclosure - Warren Times-Observer
Hundreds of billions of dollars of our money is being spent to "bail out" big financial institutions. You'd think that would entitle taxpayers to know at least something about who's getting the money and how it is being spent. Wrong, according to ...

Top 15 For 2008 (No. 11): Citigroup (C) Collapses Under Its Own Weight - StreetInsider.com
The credit meltdown proved to big for even mega-bank Citigroup (NYSE: C ) to navigate and in November the U.S. Treasury the Federal Reserve Board stepped in to bailout the once venerable company. With new CEO Vikram Pandit in place at the beginning ...

NC foreclosure filings up to record levels in 2008 - WNCT
For the first time in state history, homeowners filed more than 50-thousand property foreclosures in just one year. Filings shot up 9-percent to record levels in 2008. And experts say it could have been worse had it not been for initial voluntary ...