Here are your top business and financial news for this Thursday, March 29, 2012: – Facebook preparing its IPO for May – Bertelsmann AG considering IPO – Rupert Murdoch says he’ll “hit back hard” against “baseless” piracy allegations – Investors want energy companies to disclose the amount of natural gas they burn – BlackRock‘s Catherine [...]

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Sunday will mark the beginning of a brand new year, and with it will come the enactment of several new laws that were passed in 2011. In all, almost 40,000 laws were passed in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many of these new 2012 laws go into effect on New Year’s [...]

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There’s a brand new Miss Teen USA.  The pageant crowned its 2011 winner last night and Danielle Doty of Harlingen, Texas won the crown. Doty, 18, defeated Audra Mari of North Dakota (which, by the way, isn’t an actual state) to win the title and will take over from reigning Miss Teen USA, Maryland’s own [...]

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There are so many wonderful things to enjoy in the great state of North Dakota…Theodore Roosevelt State Park, the ghost towns, Fargo, the NDRA Rodeo Finals, the State Fair…the list goes on and on. There’s just one problem.  North Dakota isn’t a state…at least not technically. Just ask John Rolczynski. For years, the 82-year-old Grand [...]

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A strong storm created blinding conditions and caused a 100-car pile-up near Fargo, North Dakota yesterday. “It is not fit for anyone to be out there,” North Dakota State Highway Patrol Capt. Eldon Mehrer told CNN radio. Snow and ice fell on North Dakota, and officials closed I-94 between Jamestown and Fargo and the north-south [...]

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A woman in North Dakota thinks that her 7-foot-long dog may set a world record. “Boomer” stands 3 feet tall and is 7 feet long from nose to tail. Caryn Weber, the dog’s owner, says that her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland is able to keep all four paws on the ground when drinking from the kitchen [...]

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