| Cruise and Holmes miss out on dream home
Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have failed to land a $20m (29.5m) apartment in New York City's Dakota building, after it was sold to a mystery buyer.
The pair were rumoured to be interested in the 12-room home in The Dakota block, opposite Central Park. .
Overcharging the county
THE ISSUE: Jefferson County didn't bid work on billions of dollars of sewer debt refinancing, and sewer ratepayers are paying dearly, says the county's new financial adviser. If, as a financial adviser says, Jefferson County overpaid by up to $100 million in financing costs on a series of bond deals, there needs to be consequences, even if the deals were legal. The report investment firm Porter, White & Co. gave Monday to the Jefferson County Commission's Finance Committee should be only the beginning of county officials' review of the transactions known as swaps. In those transactions, the county swapped interest payments with investment firms on billions of dollars of bonds used to finance the county's $3 billion sewer program. James H.
PRESS: Source says VimpelCom board fails to agree on co's expansion
Representatives of the company's other major shareholder, Norway's Telenor, blocked the amendments, the source said. VimpelCom's board consists of nine directors, three of which represent Telenor, the daily reported. Major decisions must be approved by eight out of nine directors. Altimo's Vice President Kirill Babayev said that if VimpelCom started expansion before the amendments were approved, the operator's top management could face legal problems, the daily reported. Altimo recently indicated its interest in buying mobile operators in Southeast Asia, in particular in India, Indonesia and Vietnam. Kjell-Morten Johnsen, head of Telenor Russia, said in February that Telenor was against VimpelCom acquiring "expensive and disputed" foreign assets from Russian industrial and financial holding Alfa Group, parent company of Altimo.
MHS choirs back from event with major wins
Three Marietta High School choirs returned from the Heritage Music Festival in Toronto this month with an impressive collection of awards, including top honors at the competition.
We were ready, said Laura Riley, 16, a sophomore and member of the schools Premiere Show Choir. Our group has a ton of energy and did real well. Im excited. I hope we do this well in Ohio next year.
At the April 13-15 festival, Encore Concert Choir took first place out of 17 choirs. Premiere Show Choir tied for first place out of eight and Chamber Ensemble Choir tied for second place out of five choirs.
Marietta choirs also won the Choral Sweepstakes, the highest award given at the Heritage Festival, for collective high marks. Of 19 schools, the local singers took first place.
Local paper shredding company announces free shred day in Manhattan
Document Resources, the area's locally owned AAA Certified information security company, is having a FREE Shred Day to dispose of the general public's personal documents and files at NO CHARGE. Individuals and households can bring their items to Document Resources facility at 414 South 5th St. Manhattan KS between 9AM and NOON on Saturday April 21 2007 so they can be gathered for destruction, including recycling the destroyed remains. (Do not worry about removing staples or paper clips.) .
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