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Thursday, February 5, 2009

PLANO COMPANIES - Parolee executed for using bat to kill woman, son - Wichita Falls Times Record News

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Nearly 15 years since he took a baseball bat and fatally bashed his girlfriend and her teenage son at their San Antonio home, condemned killer David Martinez got his wish and was put to death for their slayings. The 36-year in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON (Feb. 4) - House lawmakers on Wednesday accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of impeding their probe into how the agency failed to uncover the alleged $50 billion fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff. The clash between lawmakers in Dow Jones News >

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ira Lee Sorkin , the lawyer representing suspected Ponzi-scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff , was a customer of Madoff’s investment advisory business before his client’s arrest for allegedly running a $50 billion fraud in Dow Jones News >

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Fossils of the world’s largest snake, a 13-meter (43-foot) crocodile-eating serpent, are shedding new details on the climate after the last dinosaurs died out, suggesting the tropics were much warmer than at present. The in Dow Jones News >

ATLANTA (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency says some emergency meal kits given to storm victims in Kentucky and Arkansas may contain recalled peanut butter. FEMA says the kits may contain packets of peanut butter that are part of a in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON -- The White House's nominee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, has earned more than $700,000 in speaking and consulting fees since the beginning of 2008, with some of the payments coming from troubled financial in Dow Jones News >

Automobile fatalities declined in 40 states in 2008, according to a survey of state highway safety agencies, an early sign that traffic deaths could dip to their lowest levels in four decades. The Governors Highway Safety Association, which in Dow Jones News >

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