Saturday, July 12, 2008 In what regulators have described as the second-largest bank failure in the history of the United States, IndyMac Bank has been closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision and placed under the conservatorship of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) due to plummeting shares and the start of a run on…
Construction accident in New York City, one reported dead
Monday, January 14, 2008 A construction worker died after falling thirty feet from a New York hotel yesterday, police say. The accident occurred at the Trump SoHo construction site in SoHo, New York. Witnesses at the scene reported that a load being lifted by a crane collided with the building, possibly causing scaffolding to collapse….
Send Off Your Financial Worries With Christian Credit Card Debt Consolidation
Read An Opinion On: Simple Loan Agreement Australia By Tom Frederick Usually, people show a very sloppy attitude towards their credit card bills. Credit card is the biggest help one can ever get on his or her equity of account but mistreatment of this equity by keeping the bills unpaid is exactly what most of…
Green Day dominates at MTV’s 2005 Video Music Awards
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 MTV‘s 2005 Video Music Awards were rather unbalanced this year, with Green Day’s capture of seven of the eight awards for which they were nominated. The awards were for their single “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” off of the American Idiot album. Up-and-coming rock bands Fall Out Boy and The Killers also…
Wikinews interviews Democratic candidate for the Texas 6th congressional district special election Daryl Eddings, Sr’s campaign manager
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas’ 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, the office of Democrat Daryl Eddings, Sr. agreed to answer some questions by…
Fur fans flock to Toronto’s Furnal Equinox 2019
Monday, March 25, 2019 From March 15 to 17, the Canadian city of Toronto played host to the tenth Furnal Equinox, an annual event dedicated to the “furry fandom.” Wikinews attended. Programming ranged from music to gender, science to art, covering dozens of aspects of the varied subculture. The event’s featured guests were visual artists…
Pegboard Gondola Shelving}
Read An Opinion On: Rope Galore Pegboard Gondola Shelving by [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyVuaQNHor4[/youtube] Tom Narkiewicz Leading suppliers located in Sydney Australia of low priced supermarket shelving commonly described as gondola shelves allow for access to independently adjustable cantilevered style shelving from both sides. The SDP07 system is available in single sided bays ideally positioned next to walls,…
South Korea: Fire in hospital housing elderly people kills at least 37
Friday, January 26, 2018 Fire broke out on Friday morning and destroyed the bottom two floors of a six-story hospital in Miryang, South Korea, killing at least 37 people, most of them elderly. More than a hundred injuries were reported, with eighteen people in critical condition. This is the highest death toll from fire in…
Kenya government fires health worker strikers over failure to ‘report back to work’
Saturday, March 10, 2012 The Kenyan government has dismissed 25,000 striking health workers, mostly nurses, citing failure to heed government orders to recommence work and concern for the welfare of hospital patients. Speaking on behalf of the government, Alfred Mutua stated the workers were dismissed “illegally striking” and “[defying] the directive … to report back…
Musharraf quits as chief of army staff in Pakistan
Thursday, November 29, 2007 President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan gave up his uniform in a ceremony yesterday in Rawalpindi. He handed power over to General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the headquarters of the Pakistani Army, after being the leader of the army for nine years. In his final address as leader of the army, he…