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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/16/11737097-man-buys-out-kmart-donates-to-charity</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/16/11737097-man-buys-out-kmart-donates-to-charity</guid><category>charity</category><category>kmart</category><category>buy</category><category>winchester</category><category>rankin</category><category>paynter</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>when-rankin-paynter</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:27:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Kmart lays off 700 appliance workers</title>
<description><![CDATA[The parent of Kmart stores is laying off 700 employees working in Kmart's appliance departments as it changes how the stores sell refrigerators, ovens and other appliances.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/17/6882572-kmart-lays-off-700-appliance-workers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/17/6882572-kmart-lays-off-700-appliance-workers</guid><category>us</category><category>kmart</category><category>layoffs</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:24:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Former Kmart CEO to settle SEC case for $5.5M</title>
<description><![CDATA[The former chief executive of Kmart will drop his appeal of a $10 million-plus penalty and pay $5.5 million to settle years of litigation over the retailer's fragile health before it filed for bankruptcy in 2002, court documents show.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed White]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ed White]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/10/5442845-former-kmart-ceo-to-settle-sec-case-for-55m</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/10/5442845-former-kmart-ceo-to-settle-sec-case-for-55m</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:56:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Selena Gomez to launch Kmart clothing line</title>
<description><![CDATA[Selena Gomez will launch a line of clothing at Kmart stores this summer.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/01/4099437-selena-gomez-to-launch-kmart-clothing-line</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/01/4099437-selena-gomez-to-launch-kmart-clothing-line</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>us</category><category>kmart</category><category>gomez</category><category>selena-gomez</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:30:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a5a0365d-f292-4f77-9217-2f5c0cb51f12.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="359" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a5a0365d-f292-4f77-9217-2f5c0cb51f12.jpg" width="120" height="171" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Selena Gomez arrives at Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday, March 27, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Court says Sears chairman Lampert can be deposed</title>
<description><![CDATA[An appeals court says Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Edward Lampert must give a deposition in a lawsuit filed by a former Kmart employee who says he was the victim of age discrimination.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/26/4074985-court-says-sears-chairman-lampert-can-be-deposed</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/26/4074985-court-says-sears-chairman-lampert-can-be-deposed</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>lawsuit</category><category>kmart</category><category>chairman-edward-lampert</category><category>lampert</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:57:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Former Kmart head ordered to pay millions</title>
<description><![CDATA[A judge on Thursday ordered a former Kmart CEO to pay more than $10 million for misleading investors before the retail chain filed for bankruptcy protection in 2002.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed White]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ed White]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/25/3949617-former-kmart-head-ordered-to-pay-millions</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/25/3949617-former-kmart-head-ordered-to-pay-millions</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><category>kmart-ceo</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Judge won't upset verdict in Kmart case</title>
<description><![CDATA[A judge has upheld a civil verdict against the former head of Kmart Corp., who was found liable for misleading investors about the retailer's health in 2001.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/21/3788519-judge-wont-upset-verdict-in-kmart-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/21/3788519-judge-wont-upset-verdict-in-kmart-case</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:30:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Somerset mall owners buy ex-Kmart headquarters</title>
<description><![CDATA[Public records say the owner of southeastern Michigan's upscale Somerset mall has bought the adjacent former Kmart Corp. headquarters site for $17.5 million.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/07/3726536-somerset-mall-owners-buy-ex-kmart-headquarters</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/07/3726536-somerset-mall-owners-buy-ex-kmart-headquarters</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sale</category><category>kmart</category><category>hq</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:16:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>No penalty yet in ex-Kmart CEO's civil fraud trial</title>
<description><![CDATA[A judge has heard closing arguments in the penalty phase of a civil trial against the former head of Kmart Corp., who was found liable of misleading investors eight years ago.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/16/3277816-no-penalty-yet-in-ex-kmart-ceos-civil-fraud-trial</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/16/3277816-no-penalty-yet-in-ex-kmart-ceos-civil-fraud-trial</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><category>exchange-commission</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/d006e47a-43c2-4859-9412-03e612bf91d9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="374" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/d006e47a-43c2-4859-9412-03e612bf91d9.jpg" width="120" height="164" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this May 15, 2001 file photo, Charles C. Conaway, former chief executive of Kmart Corp., is shown. The Securities and Exchange Commission is telling a federal court Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, that Conaway should pay millions of dollars for misleading investors about the retailer's financial health in 2001.  (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Owner of ex-Kmart pitches it as home for City Hall</title>
<description><![CDATA[The owner of a former Kmart building thinks it would be a dandy location for a new city hall, library and police station.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/28/3203013-owner-of-ex-kmart-pitches-it-as-home-for-city-hall</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/28/3203013-owner-of-ex-kmart-pitches-it-as-home-for-city-hall</guid><category>us</category><category>kmart</category><category>city-hall</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:36:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ex-Kmart CEO wants to overturn verdict in SEC case</title>
<description><![CDATA[With millions of dollars at stake, lawyers for the former head of Kmart Corp. urged a judge Wednesday to throw out a verdict in a civil trial that centered on what investors should have been told before a bankruptcy filing in 2002.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed White]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ed White]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/12/3146290-ex-kmart-ceo-wants-to-overturn-verdict-in-sec-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/12/3146290-ex-kmart-ceo-wants-to-overturn-verdict-in-sec-case</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:18:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>SEC: Ex-Kmart CEO should give up more than $22M</title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators are seeking more than $22 million from the former head of Kmart Corp., who was found liable for misleading investors about the company's finances before a bankruptcy filing in 2002.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed White]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ed White]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/03/3111735-sec-ex-kmart-ceo-should-give-up-more-than-22m</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/03/3111735-sec-ex-kmart-ceo-should-give-up-more-than-22m</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:26:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>EEOC sues Kmart alleging disability discrimination</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing retail giant Kmart for employment discrimination, alleging that the company fired an employee because he used a cane.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/24/2965404-eeoc-sues-kmart-alleging-disability-discrimination</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/24/2965404-eeoc-sues-kmart-alleging-disability-discrimination</guid><category>us</category><category>lawsuit</category><category>discrimination</category><category>politics</category><category>kmart</category><category>equal-employment-opportunity-commission</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:14:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Banks sue former Kmart CEO, alleging unpaid loans</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former Kmart Corp. chairman and CEO Joseph Antonini is being sued by five banks accusing him of defaulting on more than $2.3 million in loans and promissory notes.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/30/2881023-banks-sue-former-kmart-ceo-alleging-unpaid-loans</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/30/2881023-banks-sue-former-kmart-ceo-alleging-unpaid-loans</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>kmart</category><category>sued</category><category>antonini</category><category>ceo-joseph-antonini</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 22:42:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Jury in Michigan sides with SEC in Kmart case</title>
<description><![CDATA[The former head of Kmart Corp., who told jurors he was hired to save the venerable retailer, was found liable Monday for misleading investors about company finances before a bankruptcy filing in 2002.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed White]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ed White]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/28/2872693-jury-in-michigan-sides-with-sec-in-kmart-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/28/2872693-jury-in-michigan-sides-with-sec-in-kmart-case</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><category>exchange-commission</category><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Civil trial under way in Michigan for ex-Kmart CEO</title>
<description><![CDATA[A civil trial is under way in a federal court in Michigan where former Kmart Chief Executive Charles Conaway could be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed White]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ed White]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/14/2817186-civil-trial-under-way-in-michigan-for-ex-kmart-ceo</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/14/2817186-civil-trial-under-way-in-michigan-for-ex-kmart-ceo</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>sec</category><category>ceo</category><category>kmart</category><category>kmart-chief-executive-charles-conaway</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 16:14:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Police: Kmart shooting suspect commits suicide</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Philadelphia man suspected in the shooting of a Kmart manager on a store loading dock has committed suicide.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joann Loviglio]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Joann Loviglio]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/02/2169045-police-kmart-shooting-suspect-commits-suicide</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/02/2169045-police-kmart-shooting-suspect-commits-suicide</guid><category>shooting</category><category>kmart</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/cdb20680-961c-4039-a0aa-9b7107f931f8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="393" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/cdb20680-961c-4039-a0aa-9b7107f931f8.jpg" width="120" height="156" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Police investigate the crime scene inside a loading dock area of a Kmart store in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, where a gunman shot a store employee. The worker who intervened in an argument between a co-worker and her boyfriend on the store loading dock was shot and critically wounded, police said. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ded13570-a6a0-4b1b-a3fb-108e339bc5b2.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ded13570-a6a0-4b1b-a3fb-108e339bc5b2.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Police SWAT team members exit an apartment complex in Philadelphia, Tuesday Dec. 2, 2008, after an unsuccessful search for a gunman wanted for shooting an employee at a nearby Kmart store.   (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Layaway makes a comeback</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hot Shoppes. Green Stamps. Rexall. Layaway.Ask your grandparents.Wait a minute ... did we say layaway?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Johnson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Johnson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/10/2093926-layaway-makes-a-comeback</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/10/2093926-layaway-makes-a-comeback</guid><category>business</category><category>credit</category><category>kmart</category><category>fee</category><category>christmas</category><category>retailers</category><category>purchase</category><category>eau</category><category>consumer-news</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ex-Kmart HQ Sells Off Fine Art, Furniture</title>
<description><![CDATA[Kmart, one of the nation's top discount retailers, is selling off high-end art from its former corporate headquarters.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/20/261184-ex-kmart-hq-sells-off-fine-art-furniture</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/20/261184-ex-kmart-hq-sells-off-fine-art-furniture</guid><category>business</category><category>art</category><category>kmart</category><category>fine</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>