News Topic: People

Associated Press Blame the game, not the player. ... Read full article

EPA/Erik S. Lesser A lot of odd things have happened to pitcher Vicente Padilla during his 13-season Major League career. ... Read full article

Bloomberg News Lee Farkas “A tremendous asset to the community.” “A great source of inspiration and love.” “Courteous, truthful and contrite.” Someone “who seems always to p ... Read full article

Associated Press Jack Nicklaus hits from the sand to the eighth green during a golf tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on June 1. A Colorado couple th ... Read full article

Federal prosecutors say Lee Farkas should spend the rest of his life behind bars because the former chairman of mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. continues to deny responsibility for the devastation he wrought as the mastermind of ... Read full article

A judge on Wednesday gave Borders Group Inc. the go-ahead on an aggressive schedule that the bookseller hopes will result in a bidder for its remaining assets emerging by July 1 and a transaction closing by the end of July, as the bookseller looks to keep ... Read full article

Associated Press Tampa, Fla., entrepreneur Maureen Rorech Dunkel needs to repay creditors in her bankruptcy case, and she’s got a royal idea on how to do it. ... Read full article

Associated Press Patricia Kluge hugs her son John Kluge, Jr. at the funeral for his father, philanthropist John W. ... Read full article

Bloomberg News Lee Farkas The U.S. ... Read full article

Restructuring pros Grab a pen and paper and Start writing haikus. That’s because if your poem strikes the fancy of Bracewell & Giuliani partner Evan Flaschen , you could find yourself sitting in a primo pair of seats at Yankee Stadium. ... Read full article

Even a year after Barry Stokes’s death in a federal prison, the court-appointed trustee winding down the convicted Tennessee fraudster’s business is still searching for eighty pieces of potentially valuable art that Stokes may have hid. ... Read full article

Aurelius Capital Management, one of the big hedge funds accused of benefiting from insider trading in the bankruptcy case of Washington Mutual Inc., says it’s the victim of a “shakedown” by the committee representing aggrieved investors. Read the Daily ... Read full article

Las Vegas casino operator Station Casinos LLC on Friday emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection controlled by the company’s founding Fertitta family, ending a nearly two-year restructuring odyssey. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here . ... Read full article

Melanie Cohen Losing his grasp of the beloved Chicago-based Giordano’s pizza chain he’d built over decades, a despe ... Read full article

We have an idea for how the U.S. ... Read full article

2010 brought a corporate bankruptcy and a new baby to Rock & Republic founder Michael Ball, and it changed his outlook on, well, everything. “Life is different,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “I look at it with perspective now. It’s not all about ... Read full article

Young Buck has an important gig on July 1. But the Nashville rapper won’t be performing before his adoring fans. Instead, he’ll be answering questions about the whereabouts of performance and appearance fees he’s supposed to turn over as part of his ... Read full article

Associated Press Marc Dreier A bankruptcy trustee is suing an Anguillan developer to recover the approximately $1.5 million Marc Dreier spent on property on the Caribbean is ... Read full article