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‘Sick’ economy forces layoffs at New York hospital
A New York City hospital will lay off 240 employees, including doctors, nurses and management positions, because of the difficult economic times, the hospital announced in a statement Monday. The paper published its final print edition Tuesday as the P-I makes a transformation into an online-only news outlet. A skeleton crew of 20 to 25 staffers will remain at the new Seattle PI.com while more than 140 staffers will lose their jobs.
Deal aimed at keeping San Francisco Chronicle publishing
San Francisco Chronicle has reached a tentative agreement with its largest union on contract concessions, a key step in keeping the newspaper from being sold or closed, officials announced Monday. The Chronicle told employees last month that the paper was at risk if it did not stop bleeding millions
Tourists missing after Thai boats sinks
Seven tourists in Thailand were missing Monday after a ferry sank about 12 miles from shore, authorities reported. Of those evacuated, at least 35 adults and children were taken to other hospitals to be treated for respiratory irritation, said Lt.
Who Really Killed the Rocky Mountain News?
“We are just deeply sorry.” That’s all E.W. Scripps Co.’s Cincinnati, Ohio–based executives could mumble last week in closing Colorado’s oldest company, the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News. In shuttering an operation sprung in 1859 from a gold-mining camp just blocks from its downtown Denver home, Scripps directly or obliquely blamed everything — the economy, the Internet, demographics — and everybody — Denver Post panjandrum William Dean Singleton, ignorant consumers, bloggers — for the diminished tabloid’s demise
Denver paper latest victim of declining readership, ad revenue
After nearly 150 years in business, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition Friday, the victim of a bad economy and the Internet generation. The final front-page headline simply says: “Goodbye, Colorado.” “It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to you today. Our time chronicling the life of Denver and Colorado, the nation and the world, is over.” The Rocky Mountain News’ owner, E.W
Iraq claims U.S. soldier killed by terrorist, not policeman
The deaths of a U.S.
20 alleged Hispanic gang members indicted in Colorado
Twenty alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation’s largest and most violent have been indicted in Colorado on drug and firearm charges, authorities said Tuesday. Of the 20 alleged MS-13 members named in two indictments, eight were arrested Tuesday morning in Denver and in Los Angeles, California, authorities said. Another eight were already in custody, according to a news release from the U.S
Interpreting Obama
Hours after the lowest point of his boss’s first two weeks in office, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ended the first chapter of the Obama presidency and launched the second.
California can’t solve budget crisis
California lawmakers worked into early Wednesday but couldn’t pass a budget to avoid the possibility of laying off 10,000 more state workers. Lawmakers brought blankets and toothbrushes to work Tuesday, planning to stay as long as it took to pass a budget, but as of 2 a.m. PT (5 a.m