Case could rewrite corporate law in Wisconsin (The Capital Times)

A case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court could have a major impact on the power of corporations and their relationships with unions, banks and vendors. The court will decide whether owners can make business decisions for their personal benefit at the expense of creditors, workers and the corporations themselves or whether they have obligations to those interests. Oral arguments are set for Jan. ...

A Sponsor of Literary Readings Gets a Little Help With Living (New York Times)

A man turned to begging on the street in order to support his passion for staging free public readings of great literature.

The Herald : Business: MAIN BUSINESS (The Herald)

The coming year will witness a dramatic leap in the number of people going bust south of the border with a record number of personal insolvencies likely.

At Midnight, U.S. Leaves Republican Palace, Green Zone to Iraqis (Washington Post)

BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 -- The walls of the majestic Republican Palace in Baghdad's Green Zone have been stripped bare. The vaults that secured American cash and classified documents are gone, and the cement blast walls that protected the front entrance were taken down this week. The U.S. military dining...

Dispute rekindles over old cemetery (The Record Searchlight)

A long-dormant dispute over access to a cemetery west of Redding has boiled over again, after more than a decade of peace among a church, Shasta County officials and members of an American Indian family who lay claim to a part of the graveyard. "These are all of my people here," Alvin McDaniels, a 68-year-old tribal elder, said as he walked recently through the graveyard. "That's my ...