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Judge Denies Damages in Lead Paint Case

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A judge Tuesday denied punitive damage claims against three U.S. companies in a landmark lead paint case that had been expected to trigger a flurry of similar claims against the industry. The three former lead paint makers — Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc. and Millennium Holdings LLC …

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Westminster Remembers Lost Dogs of Katrina

NEW YORK – When he was a boy, Hiram Stewart took a bus to Virginia, put a puppy in a paper bag and cradled it all the way home to New Orleans. For more than three decades, he’s cared for dogs in the Big Easy. Usually champion dogs, the kind …

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Trial Video Shows Lay, Skilling in Enron's Hay Day

HOUSTON – Jurors in the fraud and conspiracy trial against former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling got a taste Wednesday of the self-congratulatory culture that permeated the company months before it collapsed in scandal and bankruptcy. Lay and Skilling occasionally headlined employee meetings during the company’s halcyon …

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