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Last of Three Parts In the predawn solitude of a prison cell on Terminal Island, a thin, graying state prisoner shaved, ate some bran flakes and a banana and started a letter to his wife, before a convoy of heavily armed U.S. marshals took him to court....

First of Three Parts The summer after her first year of law school, Pamela Dowden dug a red calico sundress out of her closet and left her apartment in Sacramento. It was a hot, shadeless morning. She drove her orange Datsun pickup out of town as...

Second of Three Parts "Well, it's dinnertime at the amazing Miss Weird's Place," Pamela Griffin wrote her husband, Robert, one night in 1986, sitting alone at her kitchen table with leftovers. "Tonight we have the famous incredible squash concoction --...

Children antsy to go online and play in Webkinz World had to find some other diversion for part of Thursday and Friday, when the Web site with games and other activities for owners of the stuffed animals experienced technical problems. Although Ganz, the...

Illinois bankers have increasingly suspicious minds. Banks and other depository institutions statewide filed 20,118 "suspicious activity report" forms in 2006, breaking the record of 17,137 in 2005 and blowing past the 13,910 submitted in 2004, according...

Soaring energy prices may be blowing a hole in drivers' wallets, but they've been mostly good news for oil companies shareholders -- and doubly so for top executives like Occidental Petroleum Corp. CEO Ray Irani. Aided by a doubling of the Los Angeles-...

Monday: -- Earnings: Eaton Corp.; Mattel Inc.; Novellus Systems Inc.; Sensient Technologies Corp. Tuesday: -- June producer price index -- June industrial production -- Earnings: AMB Property Corp.; Coca-Cola Co.; CSX Corp.; Forest Laboratories Inc.;...

1307 Walt Whitman Rd., Melville, 11747 631-843-6000 www.firstdata.com Employees: 800 Top official: John Shlonsky, president Parent company: First Data Corp., Denver Ticker: FDC

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After the most disappointing holiday retail season in a decade, few experts expect a quick rebound for retailers in 2001. News has been grim so far, with store closings, layoffs and bankruptcies coming on the heels of a 2000 holiday season hurt by a...