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Agricultural officials ate poultry products at an ongoing national animal husbandry expo in a bid to boost public confidence in the poultry industry, as bird flu concerns are starting to disappear.

Last week brought reports of a deal to chop as much as a decade off the prison term of Jeff Skilling, the former Enron CEO and convicted fraudster.

Seizing Jeffrey Skilling as its protagonist, it is as much a cautionary reflection on man's ability to justify any and all actions, as a depiction of Enron's arrogance in taking its employees down with it.

In a ruling handed down May 6, 2013, the Federal Court of Appeal ordered that portions of a Crown pleading be struck out for suggesting that a deduction may be disallowed on the basis that the conduct of the taxpayer in incurring the expense was "egregious or repulsive". Sharlow J. A. wrote the reasons in Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v. The ... (more)

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Enron is a feisty, playful satire, gripping and pissed and melancholy. Seizing Jeffrey Skilling as its protagonist, it is as much a cautionary reflection on man's ability to justify any and all actions, as a depiction of Enron's arrogance in taking its employees down with it.

Some 7 years after a Houston police officer was accused on participating in a 3-way in a Minute Maid Park unisex restroom, the Houston Chronicle's Jose de Jesus Orti z reports the Astros hope to identify a fan who "stood up and pretended to expose himself while inside Minute Maid Park's exclusive Diamond Club ". I've only lived in Texas for ... (more)

Shares of Barnes & Noble soared 24 percent after a report from TechCrunch that Microsoft is considering a bid for the retailer's Nook e-book business.

Lots of folks in Houston don't find anything funny about the Enron scandal; Tony AwardA winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang, however, found a way to weave it into his comedy Chinglish , our choice for Friday .

News that former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling may get out of prison early isn't sitting well with some of the company's former employees.

Jeffrey Skilling is back in the news. He should jog memories about what used to happen to people charged with engaging in huge corporate accounting frauds.

In this Oct. 23, 2006 file photo, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling leaves the federal courthouse after Skilling was sentenced to 292 months in federal prison, in Houston.

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So Jeffrey Skilling has cut a deal to shave 10 years off his sentence. With any luck he'll be out in 2017.

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In a significant victory amid a push for paid sick time laws around the country, city lawmakers voted Wednesday to make businesses provide the benefit to an estimated 1 million workers who don't have it now.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, was warned by federal energy-market regulators that its personnel and two subsidiaries may face claims stemming from a probe into bidding practices.

In this January 2004 file photo, former Republican New Mexico lawmaker Dan Foley attends a press conference in Santa Fe, N.M. After serving a decade in the New Mexico Legislature and losing a re-election bid, Foley left office at age 39 and promptly started collecting retirement benefits from a taxpayer-financed pension system that's unique in the ... (more)

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling could see his sentence shortened by 10 years as part of a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Hearing Things: The House on Wednesday began its GOP-led probe of September's deadly assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, with the testimony of three whistle-blowers who have challenged the Obama administration's explanation of events in the aftermath of the attack.