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Sydney Morning Herald Kid Cudi Buys Four Pairs Of Nike Mags (Marty McFlys)BallerStatus.comThe hype culminated with the release of 1,5000 pairs, which are currently being auctioned off on eBay with proceeds benefiting the Michael J. Fox Foundation. While reports surfaced about UK rapper Tinie Tempah copping the very first pair …

Endangered post offices still neededColumbus Ledger-EnquirerNationwide, 3700 rural post offices are on the proposed hit list. That includes 45 in Georgia and 52 in Alabama. Close to home, the discontinuance list includes post offices in Andersonville, Bluffton, Howard, Junction City, Omaha, Parrott, …and more » More: continued here

Reuters DOJ investigating alleged criminal actions by eBayTimes of IndiaSAN FRANCISCO: US prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into whether eBay Inc employees took confidential information from classified ad website Craigslist as eBay sought to build a rival service, a copy of a grand jury subpoena obtained by …Federal prosecutors …

Kansas City Star Our view: Hard days at the post officeAnchorage Daily NewsThirty-one Alaska communities got a reprieve last week when the US Postal Service took them off its prospective list for closures. That was good for village Alaska, where the post office is a vital link for everything from …

The US Postal Service may close thousands of brick and mortar post offices by the end of the year as mail volume falls and an increasing number of people pay bills online. And though the brick and mortar post office might be little used in many communities, many residents in …

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Is the Post Office Going Extinct?Southern Pines PilotSo now it's the post office. I, too, will be mourning the demise of the 3700 sweet little hometown POs that will go the way of the manual typewriter and the VCR. Seems we've lost a lot of who and what we were …

Reuters EBay's Dispute With Craigslist Being Probed by US ProsecutorsBusinessWeek14 (Bloomberg) — EBay Inc. said it's cooperating with a US Justice Department investigation of its dispute with Craigslist Inc. Prosecutors are investigating whether EBay employees stole confidential information from Craigslist, according to a copy of …Federal prosecutors probing alleged criminal …

With the United States Post Office facing a deficit projected to reach close to $10 billion this fiscal year, the government has announced plans to close 3,700 post offices. They include the location at the circa 1882 building, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. …