Senate leaders modify rescue bill…Asian markets improve…Oil…
Senate leaders modify rescue bill...Asian markets improve...oil prices rise in Asia
Washington (AP) The political wrangling continues as lawmakers tackle the Bush administration's financial rescue bill. The Senate is set to vote on a modified bill Wednesday night. Their version adds tax cuts meant to appeal to Republicans in the House, which rejected the measure.
TOKYO (AP) Most Asian markets have bounced back on hopes that a financial rescue bill will soon win approval in Washington.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index, gained 139.74 points, or 1.24 percent by the end of the morning session. Many markets were closed for holidays.
SINGAPORE (AP) Oil prices have risen to above $101 a barrel in Asia on expectations that U.S. lawmakers will pass a revised bank rescue plan. Traders are still expressing skepticism that a bailout of bad mortgage debt will quickly reverse slowing global economic growth and weakening demand for crude.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A new survey suggests nearly half the workers in America expect to still be working by the time they hit 67 and not just because they'll need the money. Sun Life Financial finds that more than 80 percent of those polled say they want to stay mentally engaged.
BOSTON (AP) There's a settlement in a Iowa wrongful death suit resulting from a tunnel ceiling collapse at Boston's big dig.
Hillcrest Iowa wrongful death lawsuit delayed again
The trial for a Iowa wrongful death lawsuit against Hillcrest Family Services has been delayed for the second time because of scheduling conflicts.
The Iowa Wrongful Death trial is now scheduled for August 11, 2009.
Rodney and Michelle Skadburg, of Mason City, Iowa, brought the suit against Hillcrest after their 16-year-old son, Michael, hanged himself on the Dubuque campus of the treatment center in April 2004. The suit alleged that Hillcrest left Michael Skadburg unattended “in a clearly suicidal state.”
Hillcrest denied the allegation,
Emotions connect old OJ acquittal, new conviction
LAS VEGAS (AP) More than a decade separates O.J. Simpson's very public trials, but an North Dakota Wrongful Death attorney is suggesting one may have led to the other.
The North Dakota Wrongful Death attorney for the family of Ron Goldman, who was killed along with Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson in 1995, says he thinks the 33.5 million dollar wrongful death judgment led Simpson to try to recover personal items he had lost. Simpson was convicted Friday of kidnapping, armed robbery and 10 other charges for storming a Las Vegas hotel room to seize Simpson sports mementos.
David Cook says the trial gives America closure.
Lawsuit rejected in case of priest who killed two
By Chuck Rupnow
Leader-Telegram staff
A Wisconsin wrongful death lawsuit filed by Carsten and Sally Ellison of Barron against the Catholic Diocese of Superior for the murder of their son by a priest was dismissed Tuesday afternoon in a summary judgment by Eau Claire County Judge Paul Lenz. This is a case worked by a qualified Wisconsin wrongful death lawyer.
Lenz, in an oral ruling, said it was "too remote" to think the diocese would have any reason to believe the Rev. Ryan Erickson would kill someone based on the information it had before the double murder occurred.
Even if the diocese did have information about Erickson's suspected temper, child pornography and violent tendencies, Lenz said, "it would appear such negligence would not have brought about such harm."
The Ellisons of Barron said they filed the suit to hold the diocese accountable and to spur changes regarding who it accepts as priests and how it handles priests who might be unfit to serve.
Any monetary awards from the lawsuit would have gone to the James Ellison Foundation for the Protection of Children, an organization to protect children from sexual abuse and provide aftercare to those assaulted.
James Ellison, 22, and Dan O'Connell, 39, were shot to death Feb. 5, 2002, inside the O'Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson.
O'Connell was a co-owner in the family business, while Ellison was a mortuary science student who was interning there and was expected to join the business full time after graduating from the University of Minnesota.