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• Kilpatrick pal Bobby Ferguson indicted for fraud, money laundering
  Sep 8, 2010 — Detroit Free Press
  Misuse of funds meant to provide safe and affordable public housing is simply intolerable," McQuade said today in announcing the charges.
• HP counters Dell again, raises offer for 3Par to $1.8 billion
  Aug 27, 2010 — San Jose Mercury News
  Dell's price was a small bump up from the $24 that HP bid Monday. 3Par's stock has traded well below $12 for most of the year. It closed at $9.65 on the last trading day before Aug. 16, when the company announced a tentative deal to be acquired by Dell for $18 a share.
• Bond sales to save city money
  Aug 26, 2010 — Las Cruces Sun-News
  You could almost hear the sound of the cash register cha-chinging. It was government bureaucracy at its stuffy, stodgy best during Wednesday' special City Council meeting. Attorneys and financial advisors were there, sometimes speaking in terms difficult for the average resident to understand. But the reason they were there was simple enough.
• Johns Hopkins lab in North Laurel revolutionizing prosthetic limbs
  Aug 26, 2010 — Laurel Leader
  That, in itself, is very challenging. "We built an arm that was similar in strength and dexterity to a human arm. That was a tremendous engineering challenge to make all that work." Yet simply building the arm wasn't enough.
• Pumped-up attitude
  Aug 26, 2010 — Ventura County Star
  Even as an amputee you feel the extraordinary feat that he has gone through," Saadat said. "Me being an amputee was by mistake and making a stupid decision. Nikko has been battling this from Day 1 and done an unbelievable job with it.
• Road contract decisions questioned, defended
  Aug 24, 2010 — Kennebec Journal
  Checks dated Aug. 17 were for $9,450, $500, $2,100, $7,800 and $7,790.
• The Slots Game
  Aug 23, 2010 — The Capital
  Anne Arundel was the only place where there was competition between two companies. "This is a very, very tough economy," O'Malley said that day.
• Ballot proposal would make it harder to get out of jail free
  Aug 21, 2010 — The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
  Approximately 76,000 valid signatures are needed for a measure to be certified for the ballot. No money paid up front. Surety bond: Professional bail bondsman posts bond. Often bondsman requires collateral and assesses 15 percent fee. Property bond: Family members post property greater than value of bond.