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Two days after Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. sought Chapter 11 protection , federal securities regulators said they settled fraud charges against the bank-holding company and a former executive. ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, “Real Housewives of New Hersey” stars Teresa and Joe Giudice pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. And a day after film financier David Bergstein lost a lawsuit, his former partner dropped an appeal of a similar ... Read full article

A judge declined to approve AMR Corp.’s plan to exit bankruptcy through a merger with US Airways Group Inc., citing the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the deal. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

After an explosion, an evacuation of a small Louisiana town and a threatened eviction, military explosives-disassembler Explo Systems Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection. ... Read full article

David Goldman/Associated Press A new report by special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Christy Romero, takes a look at the U.S. ... Read full article

AMR Corp. is set to move ahead with a Thursday court hearing on a bankruptcy-exit plan based on its merger with U.S. Airways Group Inc. , but the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit to block the tie-up adds great uncertainty to AMR’s Chapter 11 ... Read full article

According to The Wall Street Journal , The Department of Justice on Tuesday moved to block the merger of American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and US Airways Group Inc. , which could hurt AMR’s plan to leave b ... Read full article

David Goldman/Associated Press Morris Brown College has gotten pulled into the debate over where to build the Atlanta Falcons’ new $1 billion stadium, and the recent negotiations have turned into a game of (requisite sports pun) ... Read full article

Patriot Coal Corp. and its mine workers have reached a settlement in their long-standing labor fight, a deal that gives the workers “significant improvements” over Patriot’s labor-contract changes approved by a judge in May. Read the Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

EPA This October, Judge Steven Rhodes of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit will preside over a trial on whether the city of Detroit was eligible to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection last month. ... Read full article

Against criticism from the U.S. government’s executive-bonus watchdog, attorneys for American Airlines’ parent company defended the $20 million severance payment promised to departing Chief Executive Tom Horton, arguing the bill would be paid once the ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Detroit’s problems are hitting the small screen, and “Real Housewives of New Jersey” stars Teresa and Joe Giudice were released on bond. Also, rapper DMX is getting a movie part. ... Read full article

Lawyers for Dish Network Corp. Chairman  Charlie Ergen  and Phil Falcone squared off in front of LightSquared’s bankruptcy judge Thursday, for the first time since Mr. Falcone sued Mr. Ergen over allegedly improper purchases of LightSquared’s debt. Read ... Read full article

The railway company that operated the train that derailed and exploded last month, killing 47 people and destroying part of a small town in Quebec, sought bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday with the intention to sell the business. ... Read full article

Phil Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners LLC sued Dish Network Corp.Chairman Charlie Ergen  for fraud, accusing him of secretly acquiring the debt of LightSquared Inc. in order to take control of the telecommunications firm and its wireless spectrum ... Read full article

Capitol Bancorp  has gone to court seeking to protect its remaining community banks from potential closure, arguing that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is improperly pressuring state regulators and that closure would cost the government agency more ... Read full article

Santa Clara County, Calif. was the first entity to register its appearance in the bankruptcy proceeding of Rural/Metro Corp., and it’s not the possibility the ambulance company’s behind on its taxes that has the county racing to court. Santa Clara has ... Read full article

Ambulance company Rural/Metro Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday after striking a deal with lenders to trim its debt load. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article