12th Annual Martin Luther King Commemoration The El Dorado Community Roundtable on Human Rights sponsors this event. 5:30 p.m. reception; 6:00 p.m. Candlelight Walk; 6:30 p.m. Commemoration Placerville Town Hall, 549 Main Street, Placerville, Ca Free Community Event www.edchumanrights.org For more information contact: edchumanrights@yahoo.com
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is close to finalizing a plan to buttress mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
NEW YORK/EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union declared it will strike at midnight Pacific time on Friday, as the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer after two days of emergency talks.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former CEO of American International Group Inc , could face a fine of up to $100 million to settle three-year-old civil fraud charges brought by New York's attorney general, according to business news channel CNBC on Friday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Friday it had been notified by U.S. regulators that a civil complaint could be filed against the company following a more than three-year-long probe into its use of hedge accounting for derivatives and other accounting matters.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexpectedly steep 84,000 U.S. jobs were lost in August and the national unemployment rate hit a five-year high of 6.1 percent, fanning worry ahead of November's presidential vote about rising recession risks.
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