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A decades-long conflict among residents of a small New Jersey community over what their town should be called has been resolved — for now, at least.
Global Hyatt Corp., the privately held hotel and resort company, said Thursday it has changed its name to Hyatt Hotels Corp.
No, the judge said to a 23-year-old Nebraska prison inmate. You can't call yourself "Sinner Lawrence Bilskirnir." Court documents said Jonathan L. Thomas cited his Norse religion in seeking the name change, saying he "is a heathen and Thor is his 'High God.'"
Would a New Jersey town by any other name smell as sweet?
The American Society of Newspaper Editors has voted to drop "paper" from its name to reflect the industry's shift online.
County leaders on Tuesday approved a resolution asking a federal agency to rename Negrohead Mountain near Malibu in honor of a black pioneer who settled in the area in the 19th century.
Blackwater Worldwide is still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, but executives at the beleaguered security firm are taking their biggest step yet to put that work and the ugly reputation it earned the company behind them.
A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity.
A school bus driver and amateur artist from the Chicago suburb of Zion has legally changed his name to "In God We Trust."
You can refer to him officially now as Mr. Experience. Daniel Michael Miller II is history. The former Dan Miller, 24, has legally changed his name to "The" Dan Miller Experience. His first name is "The" Dan, with the quotation marks. His middle name is Miller and his last name is Experience.
The lawsuit by Anaheim contesting the renaming of the Angels went to the jury Wednesday after nearly five hours of closing arguments.
A jury ruled Thursday that the Angels did not breach a contract with the city of Anaheim when the baseball team changed its name.
The lawsuit by Anaheim contesting the renaming of the Angels went to the jury Wednesday after nearly five hours of closing arguments.
R.I. to vote on plantation as part of namePROVIDENCE - Rhode Island residents will vote next year whether to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name because of its association with slavery, state lawmakers decided yesterday.
The other day I saw a story in the news about a guy who bought a hotel and had the members on his staff who were Latino shorten their names to more American sounding ones and required that they speak only English in his presence.
WTF? New name for tourism outfit.A Wisconsin tourism lobbying group is changing its name after realizing its initials formed a crude acronym.
70% say brides should take husband's nameWhat's in a name? Apparently a lot, especially if it's your last name.
Midway Games loses its nameAfter over fifty years, ending in a sort of drawn-out drama not unlike watching a goldfish flop around amidst the broken shards of its shattered bowl, there will no longer be a company called Midway Games.
Pirate Bay Nemesis Has Name Changed By PrankstersAnyone brave enough to take on The Pirate Bay with a view to shutting them down automatically makes millions of enemies, some of which become motivated enough to actually do something about it.
No more confusion: Atari drops Infogrames nameDespite Infogrames standing for entertainment that rocks our world, the armadillo branding is gone and now only Atari remains.
Salish Sea name back in playWest Coast waters could soon be united under the name Salish Sea after a two-decade-old proposal was revived.
Owners drop Freedom Tower name for new WTC skyscraper- The agency that owns the space where the World Trade Center towers stood is freeing itself of the term "freedom" to describe the signature skyscraper replacing the buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001.
No Mohr Cox for JayExcerpt: In mildly emasculating yet quite hysterical court papers, Jay Mohr is asking to have his wife's last name legally added to his own. Jay Mohr will now forever be known as Jon Ferguson Cox Mohr.
Another NFL Player Changes His Legal Name... See what it isGreg White doesn't have the high profile of Bengals receiver Chad Ocho Cinco, formerly known as Chad Johnson. But I do think he's pulled off the best name change of this NFL season.
Teen changes her name to CutoutDissection.comASHEVILLE, N.C. – You can call her CutoutDissection.com, Cutout for short, but just don't call her Jennifer. The former Jennifer Thornburg — whose driver's license now reads Dissection.com, Cutout — wanted to do something to protest animal dissections in schools...
Irish Dingle Over a Gaelic DaingeanThe town of Dingle, one of Ireland's best-known tourist destinations, has won its battle against a government edict to adopt the Irish language version of its name.
Due to confusion between my old display name, Kyle B, and KyleN's name, and because I want to promote professionalism on my column, I have changed my display name to my full name, Kyle Baxter. Hope this doesn't cause too much confusion around the 'Vine.
Woman changes her name to protest killing fish for foodA Flagstaff woman has changed her last name to "Fishinghurts" to protest the killing of fish for food. She had actually requested a judge change her name to Fishinghurts.com, a reference to PETA's anti-fishing Web site, but the judge denied the .com suffix.
So I've been thinking recently about a few things regarding my online presence, which is not terribly grand in the large picture.
Québec newlywed furious she can't take her husband's nameCaroline Parent assumed she would take her husband's surname after their wedding. But the Ontario-born newlywed, who lives in Quebec, was shocked to learn that a 1981 provincial law forbids it.
Thanks to Brian Ford's article, Anonymity and Newsvine: Identify Yourself, I have finally made a decision I've been mulling over for quite some time.
"My Name means Penis"I found this while trying to find out what is up with the Swedish tax authority not letting some couple name their daughter Metallica.... A woman whose name was difficult to pronounce used her one legal name change to call herself Willy.
Sweden May Have Free Health Care. But What If You're A Transvestite And You Want To Change Your Name?Just ask Lennart Widahr, who secretly lived (through two marriages) as a transvestite. He applied to the Swedish National Tax Board (yes, the Skatteverket) to change his name to "Pia." Oh no they didn't! That liberal, welfare state? They shot him down.
Howard Stern Changes Moniker to "The Howard"In the wake of increasing media attention to Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer and lover Howard K. Stern, disc jockey Howard Stern suggested today that media outlets begin referring to him as The Howard.
Bears Fan Changes Name to Peyton Manning After Colts Win SuperbowlDECATUR, Ill. — He doesn't want to do it, but die-hard Bears fan Scott Wiese is changing his name. The 26-year-old Forsyth man told friends that if his beloved team didn't win the Super Bowl, he'd become Peyton Manning after the Indianapolis Colts star quarterback.
Bears fan changing name to Peyton Manning | IndyStar.comBears lose and this guy has to change his name to Peyton Manning.
400 people in Latvia Change Their Names in Six MonthsDuring the first six months of this year more than 400 people in Latvia changed either their first or family names, a Justice Ministry official told the parliament human rights and public affairs committee today.
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