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FINRA: Brokers' disciplinary records stay online

Brokers' disciplinary records will be available online to the public even if they leave the securities industry, a regulatory organization said Tuesday.

UK: Millions of customer records sold

Rogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday.

Ariz. court rules records law covers 'metadata'

Hidden data embedded in electronic public records must be disclosed under Arizona's public records law, the state Supreme Court said Thursday in a groundbreaking ruling that attracted interest from media and government organizations.

TMZ founder vows fight against sheriff's office

The founder of TMZ.com is promising a fight, saying the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department illegally obtained his phone records in its investigation into who leaked a report on Mel Gibson's 2006 drunken driving arrest, including details on the actor's anti-Semitic tirade.

Government teams with company to track swine flu

The federal government is teaming up with a medical software maker to better track the spread of swine flu nationally.

Work begins on national e-health record network

Dr. James E. Sanders is a big believer of switching patient records from old paper files to sophisticated computer databases.

Bicycle records fall at Nevada event

A Canadian man and a French woman have set world bicycle speed records at an annual event in northeastern Nevada.

No charges in disappearance of Va. Tech records

The former director of Virginia Tech's counseling center will not face criminal charges for taking the Virginia Tech gunman's mental health records.

Biden: US closer than ever to health care reform

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the nation has never been closer to substantial health care overhaul despite "all the shouting and all the political turmoil" of recent weeks.

3 Australians set world short-course marks

Libby Trickett, Christian Sprenger and Emily Seebohm set world short-course records at the Australian swim championships on Monday.

NY man sentenced in college grades-for-pay scandal

A former official at New York City's Touro College is going to prison for his role in a scheme to sell phony degrees and transcripts.

Virgin Islands researchers unveil slavery records

A collection of slavery records newly available over the Internet may help thousands of people trace their families back to Africa through St. Croix, a former slave-trading hub in the Caribbean.

Settlement to require animal labs to post data

Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department.

Sanford backs out of vow to release records to AP

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed out of a promise to release personal financial records to the media proving he did not use state money for trips to see his mistress.

Sanford backs out of promise to release records

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed out of a promise to release personal financial records proving he did not use state money for trips to see his mistress.

Sealed divorce record offers privacy to Jon & Kate

Jon and Kate Gosselin don't live in Montgomery County, Pa. So why are the stars of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" getting divorced there?

Train crash investigators want cell, text records

Federal investigators want the cell phone and texting records from the operator of a Washington subway train that smashed into another train to determine whether she was distracted before the crash.

9,200 uncounted vials found at Army biodefense lab

An inventory of deadly germs and toxins at an Army biodefense lab in Frederick found more than 9,200 vials of material that was unaccounted for in laboratory records, Fort Detrick officials said Wednesday.

College official in NY convicted in grades-for-pay

A former official at New York City's Touro College has been convicted on charges of creating and falsifying student transcripts for money.

Warner touts e-medical data despite hacker attack

A hacker's theft of millions of Virginia's most sensitive prescription drug records isn't slowing Democratic Sen. Mark Warner's push for electronic medical records.

Va.: Scope of drug data breach still not known

State officials still don't know the extent to which a hacker compromised Virginia's prescription drug monitoring system.

Complaint over Palin's mining comment dismissed

A state panel has dismissed a complaint that accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of breaking election law by taking a public position on a mining ballot initiative days before the vote.

Va. gov says state won't pay hacker ransom

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine says the state won't pay a $10 million ransom to the hacker or hackers who accessed millions of personal records from the state's prescription drug database.

Netherlands' Veldhuis sets 2 world records

Marleen Veldhuis has broken world records in the 50-meter butterfly and 50-meter freestyle at a swimming meet in Amsterdam.

2 Isinbayeva pole vault records ratified by IAAF

Two indoor pole vault world records set by Yelena Isinbayeva were ratified Thursday by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

The Vine
The Pot & The Kettle
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News

To think that Barack Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party, the most corrupt political organization in Western history, would lecture the President of Afghanistan on the merits of clean government and honest elections is just...incomprehensible.

Unemployment Flim-Flam
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News

Whether Democrats conceived the idea of a minimum wage as an economic tool with which to buy the votes of those at the bottom rung of the economic ladder, or if the potential political benefits occurred to them as an afterthought, we may never know.

Universal Republic Records Signs New Rock Band We Are the Fallen
Source: Reuters

Universal Republic Records has signed new rock group We Are The Fallen, it was announced today by Monte Lipman, President and CEO of Universal Republic Records.

Is Obama Impeachable?
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News

Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution tells us that "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." In t …

Rising Above the Rabble
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News

For those who like to say with absolutely certainty, but with no basis in fact, that there is "not a dimes worth of difference" between the two major parties, consider this: the Republican Party is composed primarily of individuals whose primary political interest is in being …

Legal delays have blown a hole in UK's digital heritage
Source: Guardian Unlimited

• Failure to hand archive rights to major libraries • Five years of literature, research and news missing

BUB Racing's Chris Carr Breaks Speed Record
Source: motorcycle-usa.com

Chris Carr and the BUB Racing team have done it again. Carr piloted the BUB Racing Streamliner Seven to a new motorcycle land speed record of 367.382 mph yesterday on the Bonneville Salt Flats at the Land Speed Shootout promoted by Mike Cook.

300 sellouts a streak for the fans
Source: Lincoln Journal Star

This is a streak that belongs to the fans, created by the loyalty of those like 90-year-old Betty Graham, those like Milton and Ann, those kids with the caramel apples.

GNW- Record Setting Kids!

A few accomplishments from just bunches of kids. Every once in a while I like to try to find stories like these, they kind of reaffirm for me a little bit of hope that not all kids are slaves to their play stations!

Pair shake their way to world record
Source: abc.net.au

Two Sydney men have broken the world record for the longest-held handshake.

Muskogee man lands in record book
Source: tulsaworld.com

Muskogee man has blown his way into the Guinness Book of World Records.

An Ode to Vinyl

I feel bad for this younger, "digital" generation. Yeah, I'm an old vinyl-junkie and a bit of a crank, so I am going to rail in a very "these-kids-today-don't-know-what-they're-missing" kind of way. You'll have to excuse my curmudgeonly hater-ism.

New TPS system opens records to parents
Source: tulsaworld.com

Attention Tulsa students: The days of hiding a bad test grade, report card or even a ditched gym class from your parents are numbered.

May to attempt Scalextric record
Source: BBC News

Top Gear presenter James May plans to re-create the famous banked track at Brooklands in an attempt to build the world's longest Scalextric track.

Here comes the bride, and world's 'longest dress'
Source: abc.net.au

A Chinese bride has made a bid for the record books, turning up to her wedding wearing a 2,162-metre-long gown.

Gaza's children fly for kite world record
Source: abc.net.au

Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip have succeeded in breaking the world record for the number of kites flown in one place and are now set to enter the Guinness Book of Records.

Columbo Redux: Excuse Me, Mr. President. I Have Just A Few Little Questions. They Probably Don't Mean a Thing. I Just Need a Couple Minutes of Your Time.

I won't take personal credit for this article. Although I seldom pay much attention to emails of this kind, when I read through the list, it seemed to me that these are perfectly legitimate questions related to the CIC.

Baseball has never been "pure"

Bill Simmons has an interesting column up: We're going with a one-question mailbag this week, courtesy of Phil D. from Montclair, N.J.: "What was the purest baseball era, from a statistical perspective?"

911 Dispatcher Fired For Being Too Nosey
Source: wftv.com

A Lake County 911 dispatcher was fired because she was too nosey. It seems the dispatcher kept looking up the personal information of undercover deputies.

Record Store Day Folks Announce Vinyl Saturday
Source: prefixmag.com

On the third Saturday of every month, aka Vinyl Saturday, there will be exclusive new releases at your participating brick-and-mortar record shop.

Giant Lobster Roll To Be Unveiled In Maine
Source: WMTW.com

Roll will contain 45 pounds of lobster meat!!!

Record stores survive MP3 era
Source: valley24.com

Old or new, independent record stores — and contents inside — are priceless. Youngstown, Ohio local record stores Indie Wax Records, Underdog Records, The Record Connection.

Authorities Hunt Hackers in Breach of Va. Health Data - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

RICHMOND, May 7 -- The FBI and Virginia State Police are searching for hackers who have demanded the state pay them a $10 million ransom by Thursday for the return of millions of personal pharmaceutical records they stole from the state's prescription drug database.

Are record shops worth saving? (Part 3)
Source: CNET.com

By now you've read what I love about record stores, and what I could live without. In this third--and final--installment, I'm going to throw out some ideas for how to bring record shops into the 21st century.

Are record shops worth saving? (Part 2)
Source: CNET.com

Many record stores are going out of business for perfectly good reasons that have little to do with iTunes or Amazon. In general, the brick-and-mortar music retail experience is antique and frustrating, and when it's bad, it's enough to make you swear off record shops for good.

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