News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

Rachel Feintzeig 530 Fifth Ave. ... Read full article

Fox Sports faced a skeptical judge Wednesday, when it launched its attack on the Los Angeles Dodgers’ plan to put the team’s future broadcast rights on the bankruptcy auction block. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Associated Press FedEx and UPS cargo planes sit on the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. If you’re an online shopper who has rec ... Read full article

A judge on Tuesday confirmed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s $65 billion creditor-payment plan, one final major milestone in the investment bank’s record-setting bankruptcy case and a cathartic ending to the collapse that tipped world economies into chaos ... Read full article

For Bill’s Gay Nineties in midtown Manhattan, the taps may finally have run dry. “The original New York speakeasy” boasts four generations of customers who’ve enjoyed its hooch, even when the stuff was illegal. It claimed to be “unchanged and unspoiled” ... Read full article

Melanie Cohen NYC OTB In the past two years, two of New York state’s six off-track-betting organizations faced challenges to their ability to seek bankruptcy protection with vastly ... Read full article

Getty Images Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ... Read full article

The Giant and Stop & Shop supermarket chains are balking at A&P’s deal with its unionized employees to slash wages and benefits, claiming they may be forced to pick up the slack with respect to a multiemployer plan the three chains share. Read the ... Read full article

Aware of the virtually unlimited array of fried foods that a fairgoers can purchase on a stick, Virginia State Fair organizers shouldn’t have been surprised at the similarly impressive range of financial deals that Wall Street titans were willing to cook ... Read full article

Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises Inc. said Friday it’s preparing to file a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy within the next 10 days as it struggles to refinance its heavy debt load. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, the company that hosted Michael Jackson’s memorial concert danced into administration. We also report on a TLC band member falling into bankruptcy and boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman’s bankruptcy trustee’s bad news ... Read full article

Dynegy Inc. appointed a new chairman and said it joined its Dynegy Holdings LLC unit in filing a proposed reorganization plan with the U.S. bankruptcy court. Read the article in Daily Bankruptcy Review. ... Read full article

Getty Images Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., which owns the A&P, Pathmark and SuperFresh supermarket chains among others, has released a list of store leases it plans to assume, or keep, when it exits bankrup ... Read full article

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., on the heels of winning “overwhelming” support from creditors for its Chapter 11 plan, struck a deal concerning nearly $4 billion in priority claims from mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were seized by the ... Read full article

Peppermint with Oreo, the new holiday flavor for Dippin’ Dots The financial strain at Dippin’ Dots Inc., which is in bankruptcy, hasn’t thrown off the researchers at its Kentu ... Read full article

Some 95% of creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its affiliates overwhelmingly approved its latest reorganization proposal, bringing the failed investment bank a step closer to paying back some of what it owes. Read the story here in the Daily ... Read full article

AMR Corp., the parent company of American Airlines, filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reports . ... Read full article

Courtesy of Chuck Tatelbaum The breakfast clowns, including Tatelbaum, far left, and wife Kitty Charles “Chuck” Tatelbaum’s gig as a clown in the 85th annual Macy’s Tha ... Read full article