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This story misspelled the name of Stephanie Cantees, the sister-in-law of Richard Roberts and an employee of Oral Roberts Ministries.
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Three professors said they lost their jobs because of a report about the Richard Roberts family.
Three former Oral Roberts University professors sued the school and four administrators in Tulsa County District Court on Tuesday, alleging wrongful termination and wrongful causing of one professor's resignation.
The professors said they lost their jobs because they turned over to administrators a report that alleged the Richard Roberts family extensively spent university money for personal uses.
Local reaction to training bomb dropped in Va. Beach
She says she didn't hear the training bomb land, but did notice the jets were louder today and seemed to be flying a bit lower. The Navy says earlier in the day, the F/A-18C Hornet was conducting a training mission at the Navy's Dare County, North Carolina Bombing Range. A former A-6 intruder pilot familiar with these types of training missions says, "It's almost unheard of. There's various things that can happen at intervals ranging from error in the cockpit to mechanical malfunction on the airplane."
The former pilot described how the training bomb, which often releases a small plume of smoke when it lands, works. "It's harmless and it's only so you can see the location of where the bomb hits. It's for target practice basically."
The Virginia Beach warehouse was obviously not the Navy's intended target. Now it's investigating what caused the training bomb to accidentally drop.
If budget is broken, work now to repair it
So you've blown your budget buying Christmas gifts for family, friends and even the neighbor's dog. That's little surprise. It's the American way to spend and spend. In an October survey by BIGresearch and the National Retail Federation, consumers said they planned to shell out an average of $923.36 during the holidays, a modest 4 percent increase over last year but up a steep
24 percent since 2003. .
Miguel Garcia Appointed CEO of Digicel Honduras
Digicel's success in a spectrum auction on Wednesday, Dec. 19th, 2007, will enable the company to operate a mobile network in Honduras, subject to Congress approval. Miguel Garcia will leverage his vast experience as a leader in the Central American mobile community. His past accomplishments include General Manager positions in BellSouth Nicaragua, and Guatemala as well as a term as Commercial Director of BellSouth Panama and Marketing Director of BCP (BellSouth Sao Paulo). In addition, Garcia has held senior commercial posts with Telefonica Guatemala and El Salvador as well as most recently with GM Wireless Operations Centennial in Puerto Rico. "Miguel's proven leadership and experience in the telecommunications industry position him to successfully lead Digicel to become a significant player in Honduras, which promises to be a very exciting and rewarding mobile market," said Donal O'Shaughnessy, CEO of Digicel's Central American operations.
A lackluster report card for Bush's Middle East junket
The Bush administration believes that a Palestinian state can be born by the end of 2008 if the two parties now engage seriously in negotiating the thorny issues of future borders, Jewish settlements, the status of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees." But the "reality on the ground, in places the presidential cortège will not be visiting, is very different. The Palestinian lands, which would form the future state, are divided by Jewish settlements and the Israeli security wall. Their inhabitants are trapped in a no-man's-land that can barely support a poor rural economy, let alone become the foundation for a thriving sovereign state." Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip "is now completely in the hands of the Islamic militant movement Hamas, whose fighters are engaged in daily rocket duels with the Israeli military.
The Anti-Sink Game
Sometimes I wonder if the NFL is less complicated than we think. Last weekend, there were five matchups in which one team needed a victory more than the other team: Jets-Bucs, Steelers-Chargers, Packers-Saints, Cowboys-Eagles and Jags-Bengals. I'm not claiming that the Bucs/Chargers/Saints/Eagles/Bengals didn't care about losing; it's just that the Jets/Steelers/Packers/Cowboys/Jags needed those games just a little bit more, so they basically had to break out the kitchen sink for that extra somethin'-somethin'. That's why they won. Check out each game... Jets 14, Bucs 12
The Bucs were already 4-0 and playing an AFC team on the road, and their two best players (Cadillac Williams and Michael Clayton) were banged up.
Heard any good Chicago jokes lately?
Every week, I write a column called "The Chicago Way," but I know almost no Chicago jokes. I need more and better material, and I'm hoping you can help. Got a good Chicago joke? Send it to me at tmcnamee @suntimes.com, and I'll try to run it in a future column. .
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