President Obama yesterday called on Congress to pass the DREAM Act before the 111th Congress adjourns. The DREAM Act would provide young people who came to the United States with their parents a path to U.S. citizenship after attaining a college degree or serving in the military. While the DREAM Act had previously received bipartisan [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Austin, TX, United States (AHN) – Texas may have wrongly executed a man in 2000 for murder, according to DNA tests conducted after a legal battle between a non-profit and local prosecutors. The findings don’t prove innocence of Claude Jones, but bring scrutiny to attorneys who urged the governor [...]

PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rent-A-Center, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ/NGS: RCII) today announced that it intends to make a private offering of $300 million in principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2020. The Company intends to use $200 million of the net proceeds from the offering to repay term loans under the Company’s existing senior secured credit [...]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — JunkScience.com has learned that California Treasurer Bill Lockyer is retaliating against two Texas-based refiners that are supporting Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative to rollback the state’s global warming law until unemployment (now at View full post on All Stories

Texas congressional candidate Bill Flores (R) blamed a headache for “a verbal miscue” and has now backed away from comments suggesting he would raise the Social Security retirement age for future recipients, the Dallas Morning News reports. Flores made the comments in a taped interview earlier this week and later called the program host to [...]

Very few consumers lose their homes because of delinquent credit card debt. In fact, I would say that it almost never happens, except in certain bankruptcy cases in which the consumers voluntarily gives up his or her home. Although forcing the sale of a consumer’s home due to credit card debt is technically possible in [...]

Food and franchising have gone together like peanut butter and jelly at least since 1935, when Howard Dearing Johnson franchised his first restaurant featuring ice cream, fried clams and hot dogs under an iconic orange roof. Though today only a handful of HoJo restaurants survive, food-related concepts are still some of the most popular and [...]

Ill will toward President Obama and a voter belief that Gov. Rick Perry has helped save the Texas economy are giving the incumbent a re-election edge over former Houston Mayor Bill White. View full post on All Stories

Taking its cue from big bank endorsement of Wal-Mart’s “Supplier Alliance Program”, Charter Capital (a specialized provider of Factoring Services) has positioned itself to fund advances to an even wider range of suppliers challenged by the need to extend ever more generous payment terms to their customers like Wal-Mart, Costco and others. Due to the [...]