Money Anecdote

“The Privileges” is excessively cryptic, but the story is so invitingly told that it’s much easier to be drawn in than turned off.

A Subway employee told his boss he had been breaking into the store after hours and taking money from the restaurants safe, police said. South Charleston police said the manager of the Riverwalk Mall Subway contacted them Thursday about what he had been to…

— While emergency crews are working on relief in Haiti, it is still unclear how much money will be needed to help the Haitians. But that isn’t stopping a group in Rochester from raising some money.

In the past 18 months, four Bibb County principals were investigated for allegations ranging from choking a student and mismanaging federal money to testing blunders and having an affair with a subordinate. Three of the principals had repeated problems in previous jobs, and the other one was the subject of several complaints before he was placed on paid leave and then resigned, school records …

The fall of the giant US investment bank Lehman Brothers was caused by a lack of “common sense” and China should learn from Lehman’s lessons, a former Lehman senior officer said in an interview with the Global Times over the weekend. “The story of Lehman Brothers comes down to one sentence: 24,992 people making money and eight guys losing it,” said Lawrence G.

There are two kinds of local stories. One is purely local, of no particular interest or value outside the immediate area. The other kind is the “blockbuster” story that is so big that it screams for attention worldwide.

“It’s common sense” to set a fiscal target, Hayashi, 49, a lawmaker at the Liberal Democratic Party which was in power for almost all the period that the nation’s debt rose, said in an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 29. “It’s like smoking while driving a gasoline truck, so it’s a bit scary.”

The announcement last week that North Carolina has received $545 million in federal money to apply toward rail passenger service was welcome news for an effort that has been in the works for two decades.

Feb. 1 — Japan’s 10-year bonds may rise for the first time in three days on prospects stock losses will boost demand for the relative safety of debt.

Wisconsin officials are hoping a new federal jobs bill includes money to re-train unemployed people. Re-training money has run out in Wisconsin and waiting lists are growing.