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Lawson stocks dip on earnings

By Laura Kaliebe Medill News Service
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Des Plaines-based Lawson Products Inc. announced this week a 22 percent decrease in third quarter earnings, hampered by severance costs, higher overall product costs and...
Nuclear plant closed after pipe bomb find

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - PHOENIX -- Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, and i...
Rice, other top officials subpoenaed in spy case

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than a dozen other current and former intelligence officials must testify about their conversations with pro-I...
Simpson pal: FBI told about confrontation 3 weeks earlier

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Federal agents learned three weeks in advance that O.J. Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned an operation to retrieve personal items Simpson said were...
Votes line up for attorney general nominee

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Michael Mukasey drew closer to becoming attorney general Friday after two key Senate Democrats said they would vote for him despite his refusal to say whet...
Japan pulling out all stops to woo buyers

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - CHIBA, Japan -- With sales at home skidding, Japan's automakers have turned to the odd, the sleek and the fuel-efficient to help accelerate buyer interest. At the Tokyo ...
Teacher sex crimes out in open

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - The state government would open its now-secret books on teacher sexual misconduct in Maine. Missouri school districts would be barred from backroom deals that let misbeh...
Chicago puts on a show for president of Olympic panel

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Chicago didn't waste any time trying to impress International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge. Rogge is on a two-day trip here to see the final rounds of the w...
Briefs: Walgreens sales increase

Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD -- Walgreen Co. had October sales of $4.8 billion, an increase of 11.8 percent from $4.3 billion for the same month in 2006. Sales in comparable stores, those ...
Hollywood writers to strike Monday

Associated Press
Nov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood writers will begin a strike Monday morning unless the writers and studios can agree on a last-minute deal for a new contract over the weekend, u...

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