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Deals of the Hour / June 27, 2011, 4:47 pm

FBI's tip tale stinks as much as agency's past

I celand. Seriously? We are expected to believe that a woman from Iceland watching TV spotted Whitey Bulger and his girlfriend in Santa Monica where he has lived in the same apartment for 15 years just four miles from an FBI office? Why didn't the feds ... (Source: Boston Herald 2011-06-27T23:07:34Z)

Juror: Hard to convict Blago because he was so 'personable'

"I would rather have heard just the facts," she said. She also said that the evidence on the sale of the U.S. Senate seat was the clearest of all the charges because of the abundance of recorded evidence. "We felt he was trying to make a trade for ... (Source: New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV 2011-06-27T22:46:06Z)

The top U.S. Mac-using cities and states

Further digging into the research revealed that four out of the top five cities with the highest Mac usage in the nation reside in California – with Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Berkley taking 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th place, respectively. (Source: Macdaily News 2011-06-27T23:36:12Z)

Fitch downgrades Best Buy credit rating

with consumers increasingly heading online or to discount stores for the best deals and mainstays like flat screen televisions and DVDs no longer selling like they once did. The company also has had to spend more to promote its top products, putting profit ... (Source: Lompoc Record 2011-06-27T22:53:15Z)

Google and Getty team up for pictures worth a thousand links

About half of those have audio snippets as well. Google Goggles product manager Shailesh Nalawadi, whose engineering team is based in the technology giant's Santa Monica office, says they wanted to start local. "We always had the museum use-case in mind ... (Source: Los Angeles Times 2011-06-27T22:24:37Z)

Next up for feds: Powerbroker Bill Cellini

Meanwhile — through gambling, asphalt-paving and investment businesses — he amassed a fortune of more than $50 million, largely on deals that involved state government. Prosecutors originally planned to try Cellini alongside Blagojevich, but they ... (Source: Chicago Sun-Times 2011-06-27T23:14:44Z)

Niles teen still faces life sentence in sex case

A fifth defendant, Leon Murphy, 18, has accepted a plea bargain and will testify against the other four. Earlier this month, the victim in the case testified that she willingly had sex with Washington, 18, at Nichols' residence on March 14. Nichols ... (Source: South Bend Tribune 2011-06-27T23:07:34Z)

Whitey Bulger, a savvy, feared fugitive, is found frail and paranoid

Savvy and feared, Bulger seized control of a mob empire, running rackets, shakedowns and drug deals over 40 years ... But soon after Bulger was lured out of a Santa Monica apartment on Wednesday and arrested at long last, it became clear that the reputed ... (Source: Los Angeles Times 2011-06-24T17:20:22Z)

Business in flooded city survive with creativity

Suddenly, the phone stopped ringing. So he and his boss at Northfield Construction Co. have been surfing the Web for good deals on industrial-strength power washing machines, figuring plenty of homeowners and companies will need their services when the ... (Source: NWCN 2011-06-27T22:53:15Z)

Englewood Cliffs man arrested in $19.2 million fraud

At the time of the sale, Foster listed his mailing address as 2 Second St., Jersey City. Records show he bought a 33rd floor residence in Crystal Point, a 42-story condominium tower, for $915,000 in February 2010. Records also show that a Gary Foster ... (Source: NorthJersey.com 2011-06-27T23:14:44Z)

Business in flooded Minot survive with creativity

Suddenly, the phone stopped ringing. So he and his boss at Northfield Construction Co. have been surfing the Web for good deals on industrial-strength power washing machines, figuring plenty of homeowners and companies will need their services when the ... (Source: Sioux City Journal 2011-06-27T22:53:15Z)

Apple, Intel, Wal-Mart, SAFA: Intellectual Property

No one immediately responded to an e-mail seeking comment. Chuck Mulloy , a spokesman for Santa Clara , California-based Intel, declined to comment. BlackBerry smartphone maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) and Ericsson AB are also weighing bids ... (Source: Bloomberg 2011-06-27T04:16:34Z)

Whitey Bulger on Life as a Fugitive: 'I Was Armed to the Teeth'

Bulger spilled that staggering detail -- along with the news that he stashed money with people he trusted -- while traveling from California to Boston's Logan Airport after his capture at a Santa Monica rent-controlled apartment where he had spent the last ... (Source: ABC News 2011-06-27T23:14:44Z)

Israel Begins Dismantling Portion of West Bank Barrier

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu are among the notables who have participated. Naalin started similar marches three years ago. The Bilin protests, attended by villagers as well as Israeli and international activists, usually ... (Source: FOX News 2011-06-26T14:54:50Z)

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