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Unhinged from their dream of running a museum crowded with tourists who are eager to learn about young America’s Westward expansion, officials at the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument in Nebraska will settle for mediocre attendance and no more bond ... Read full article

Associated Press Victor Cristobal speaks at a news conference to protest Mi Pueblo Food Center’s use of the federal E-Verify program on Sept. 6, 2012, San Jose, Calif. ... Read full article

Bloomberg News Before the first spectator set foot inside a courtroom for the city’s debut bankruptcy hearing Wednesday morning, the judge in charge of Detroit’s historic Chapter 9 case laid out some ground rule ... Read full article

The Jungle Bells sign beckons onlookers to enter. ... Read full article

Associated Press A bankruptcy judge Tuesday handed a win to disabled Nortel Networks Corp. ... Read full article

Associated Press Tom Petters in January 2002 More than three years after receiving a 50-year sentence, convicted Ponzi scheme-operator Tom Petters is looki ... Read full article

When Griffin Campbell filed for Chapter 13 protection in March, he was like a lot of other small-time Philadelphia entrepreneurs, with a string of properties, a load of unpaid taxes, a criminal record and a contractor’s license. Then came the June 5 ... Read full article

You are a construction company in Harlingen, Texas, the heartland of tough, that’s been around since 1937. You’re working at a San Antonio road project, already strained by fuel prices that are higher than what you forecast in your contract bid, when ... Read full article

Sony Music Entertainment Sly and The Family Stone Sly Stone’s former manager, who the troubled singer claims duped him into signing away his music royaltie ... Read full article

Reuters “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles. Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis says the trustee who ... Read full article

The Texas company that once held the license to sell the Zerona fat-melting laser machines, which offers incision-free liposuction in the offices of cosmetic surgeons, has filed for bankruptcy protection to try to keep its grip on its recently terminated ... Read full article

Revel Atlantic City Revel is offering its four-legged guests custom dog beds. Revel is kicking o ... Read full article

Satellite mogul Charlie Ergen bid $2 billion for certain spectrum from LightSquared Inc., the bankrupt wireless venture spearheaded by financier Philip Falcone , The Wall Street Journal reports . ... Read full article

Associated Press Gold bars and coins from the S.S. ... Read full article

Florida home builder Tousa Inc ., which collapsed five years ago when the housing bubble popped, is seeking approval of a Chapter 11 plan that proposes to pay bondholders hundreds of millions of dollars, a big win for the hedge funds who bought up the ... Read full article

The Oreck family is rallying to take back their namesake vacuum-cleaner company from private equity owners in a deal valued at $22 million—a price that founder David Oreck hints is cheaper than what he sold the business for a decade ago. Oreck, 89, has ... Read full article

Eastman Kodak Co. is seeking court permission to enter into a deal with its U.K. pension plan, an “unprecedented” settlement that lies at the heart of its reorganization proposal. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here . ... Read full article

We just passed the seven year anniversary for bankruptcy reform.  It is hard to believe that October 17 made for the seventh year since reform.  Most bankruptcy professionals would agree that reform has been a disaster.  There is such a greater cost and ... Read full article