Shipbuilder Austal suffers profit fall – ninemsn
Shipbuilder Austal Ltd expects to eclipse its previous record order book by 50 per cent within the next 12 months despite a disappointing 2008/09 net profit due to writedowns. Austal’s profit for the 12 months to June 30 was $9.17 million, down

Business News – Am770chqr.com
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has offered renewed backing for a bid for General Motors Co.’s Opel unit from auto parts maker Magna, saying in an interview published Friday that it is “the better concept.” Canada’s Magna International Inc

Business news in brief – Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania’s employers slashed fewer than 10,000 jobs in July for the second straight month since October. The state Department of Labor and Industry estimated yesterday that Pennsylvania employers shed 4,800 nonfarm jobs in July. Payrolls shrank 8

Business news briefs – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Former AIG officials to pay $115 million in fraud case Former American International Group Inc. CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and others have agreed to pay $115 million to settle fraud claims in a lawsuit filed on behalf of three Ohio state pension

SEC may revise media policy – The Daily Advertiser
BATON ROUGE The attorneys who wrote the original version of the new Southeastern Conference media policy, and then recently revised it, are facing a possible third try after a firestorm of complaints from the largest journalist organizations in

D.C.’s astroturf home field – Politico.com
The summer of Astroturf and of accusations of Astroturf hasn t been limited to health care. In the single most egregious incident, the Bonner Group, a lobbying firm, forged the signatures of local ethnic and senior citizens organizations

Gang battle gets funding boost – Calgary Sun
Calgary’s fight against gang violence is getting cash support from Ottawa for four years, the federal public safety minister announced yesterday. Minister Peter Van Loan said the city’s three gang initiatives will receive more than $3.1 million of

Facebook Introduces Twitter Publishing – Softpedia
Facebook is slowly becoming more open, by its standards anyway, encouraging its users to post more public information and launching a new search thus making it easier to find content rather than profiles. All of these changes came rather reluctantly

Smart Choice logos may not be so “smart” – Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
You’ll soon see food packages labeled with Smart Choices logos. These are supposed to guide you to “smarter” food selections. The program has a philosophical basis: A junk food with a little less sugar, salt, saturated fat or other nutritional evil

Media groups protest SEC credential policy – Baton Rouge Advocate
The Southeastern Conference office has issued a credential policy for sporting events that has media outlets throughout the region and beyond playing the kind of defense usually reserved for Saturdays in the fall. On Wednesday, the Associated

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$1.84 million awarded to Del. arts groups – Delaware Online
The Delaware Division of the Arts has announced its grants for fiscal 2010. Throughout the state, 84 organizations received 99 grants, totaling $1.47 million. An additional $370,400 — from the division, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the

Nonprofits merge to better help families of missing persons – Mohave Daily News
PHOENIX – Phoenix-based nonprofit National Center for Missing Adults has merged with Let’s Bring Them Home, an Arkansas-based nonprofit. NCMA founder Kym Pasqualini said the merger, which was announced Wednesday, will allow both organizations to

Friday Fest Takes Trip Back 50 Years – The Ledger
You can take a trip back to the 1950s and ’60s Friday at Bartow’s monthly Friday Fest. Ken Brady of the doo-wop band The Casinos and the band The Playmates will be featured at the street party from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday Fest will be at the corner of

Roots of rhythm to promote sprouts of literacy – Palo Alto Online
The roots of rhythm in African music will be brought to the Midpeninsula Sunday with a celebration of African culture, art, food and people. “Celebrate Africa!” will also mark the success of a young organization — the African Library Project

The Willies – American Reporter
BRADENTON, Fla. — The Hermosillo, Mexico, nursery fire that killed 42 toddlers was front and center on CNN today – four days after it happened. A glance at the crawl line before 9AM showed that story after story was four or five days out of date

Bulgaria Environment Ministry Starts Recycling Check-up – Sofia News Agency
The Ministry of Environment and Water has started a check-up of all the packaging re-cycling organizations in Bulgaria after a meeting with industry heads. Environment Minister, Nona Karadzhova and Deputy Minister, Evdokiya Maneva, met with eight re

Ky. panel to look at spending by 2 organizations – Lexington Herald-Leader
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky legislative panel will hear testimony from representatives of two organizations for local governments that have been scrutinized for their spending habits. Officials from the Kentucky Association of Counties and the

Kofax Provides Health & Social Care Services Agency in England with a – Earthtimes
IRVINE, Calif. – (Business Wire) Kofax plc (LSE:KFX) , the leading provider of Intelligent Capture & Exchange solutions, today announced it is providing the leading regulator of health and social care services in England with software to