The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Eastern North Carolina warns consumers to approach enticing job offers cautiously. Recent complaints have surfaced regarding e-mail scams blending job opportunities and economic stimulus checks being distributed by the government.
“Consumers should be weary of any business opportunity received through e-mail or other means which requires the recipient to cash [...]

Cargill Inc. has donated more than $34,000 to Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas.
The money is going toward a program that provides YEK students with backpacks filled with business supplies. They will be issued at the beginning of the school year and is theirs to keep through the duration of the business-education program.
“This support from Cargill gives [...]

At a recent local event, however, the former Arkansas Razorbacks and professional basketball player focused on something else that is dear to his heart: Junior Achievement.
Kleine, now an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was the keynote speaker for a celebration of Junior Achievement’s success in Saline County.
The program, [...]

Men in their 50s are the most likely to fall off ladders in the home, causing injury and death, a new study says.
The research, presented at a medical conference in Hong Kong, said pelvic and limb injuries were most common, but some men suffered more serious head and chest fractures.
“This group was your typical victim [...]

One in three employed Australians who take methamphetamine admit going to work high on the effects of the dangerous stimulant.
A new report on stimulant use among Australian workers has revealed that four per cent of the workforce has recently taken ice, speed or some other form of methamphetamine.
One in five said they had injected it.
The [...]

Central High School hosted the official launch party today of the Financial Football game, an interactive video game created by Visa that tests students financial knowledge.
Attending the party was Brain Brohm, the former University of Louisville quarterback and Green Bay Packers draftee, and Kentucky Treasurer Todd Hollenbach.
The game will be distributed to every high school [...]

A top Invercargill athletics coach was concerned pupils were competing in the championship event without a basic knowledge of the sport.
Initially the Southland Principals Association had decided to cancel the Southland championships from next year onwards, meaning Southlands young athletes would be left with the Otago-Southland Secondary School Athletics Championships, which alternates being held in [...]

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Linneman’s: BSG, 10 p.m. March 28, Bill Camplin Band, 9 p.m. March 29, Sarah Louchs with John Davey and Andy Thiele, 9 p.m. April 3, 1001 E. Locust St.
Perk Pub: Tracy Beck, 8 p.m. March 29, 12862 W. Blue Mound Road, [...]