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Retinal scanning. Heartbeat detection. Photoelectric beams. Access: granted. Since opening three years ago, the RoboVault storage facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has made it like a scene from “Mission: Impossible” to retrieve items kept at its heavily ... Read full article

Philip Falcone ‘s LightSquared on Friday made a proposal to the Federal Communications Commission that the company hopes will solve the regulatory issues surrounding its wireless satellite network and help it build its business faster without abandoning ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Digital Domain creative leaders want a happy ending, and a Lynyrd Skynyrd-themed restaurant finds a sweet home in bankruptcy. Also this week, a Ponzi-scheme operator disputed a lawsuit involving musician John ... Read full article

The restaurant is behind this wall. There isn’t much left of Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer—just a white wall and a group of shocked employees. ... Read full article

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This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, special-effects company Digital Domain has sunk into bankruptcy, and singer John Mayer is being targeted in a Ponzi-scheme lawsuit. Also, a record-label exec got $2 million from a lawsuit over “Whoomp! (There It ... Read full article

Getty Images A holographic image of Tupac Shakur is seen performing during the third day of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 15, ... Read full article

A New York judge on Tuesday grilled a lawyer representing Patriot Coal Corp.’s union workers over whether the company’s bankruptcy case should be moved to Charleston, W.V., home of most of Patriot’s coal mines. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article ... Read full article

Fun may indeed come first at Fundex Games Ltd. , but eventually someone had to take a look at the balance sheet. ... Read full article

Journal Register Co., the publisher behind local newspapers such as the New Haven Register, is back in bankruptcy protection, three years after emerging from a previous Chapter 11 stint. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, a production company behind actor Brad Pitt’s upcoming thriller filed for bankruptcy, and so did a bridal shop featuring dresses by well-known designers like David Meister and Lilly Pulitzer. Also, Eva Longoria is ... Read full article

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A bankruptcy judge urged union members to vote in favor of the final contract offered up by Hostess Brands Inc., a proposal both sides acknowledge represents the last hope for s ... Read full article

Designer Bride Inc. , which has dressed Manhattan brides in wedding gowns by the likes of Carmen Marc Valvo, David Meister and Lilly Pulitzer, has called it quits. The retailer filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation on Friday with assets of nearly ... Read full article

Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images Brad Pitt arrives for the screening of “Killing them Softly,” presented in competition at the 65th Cannes film festival on May 22. ... Read full article

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Associated Press An American Airlines fleet clerk unloads a baggage can. A judge on Wednesday said American Airlines parent AMR Corp. ... Read full article

ATP Oil & Gas Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday, hit by the rising costs associated with its deep-water drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, it’s a family affair. Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas’s mom is in bankruptcy, and comedian and actor Russell Brand’s dad just narrowly avoided it. Also, former big leaguer Jose Canseco says bankruptcy can ... Read full article