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Sales Momentum today introduces how companies can provide their sales forces with product and sales training that lead to successful product launches. Historically, product launches to sales teams all too often more closely resemble escape plans than product launches to develop market superiority. This means the sales training investment should be made…

–Sly Bail Bonds announced that Vicki Carr and Latisha Clark has joined the Sly Bail Bond’s family in the Cleveland office to further develop their experienced staff of Cleveland bail bondsman. Vicki Carr and Latisha Clark will cover the courts in Cuyahoga and surrounding counties. We view the addition in our Cleveland market as a sign of our commitment to being…

Marshall University issued the following news release:. Marshall University Career Services will conduct its annual Fall Career Expo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Memorial Student Center’s Don Morris Room on the Huntington campus. Leading up to the event, the “Resume Doctor,” Senior Career Counselor Mirek Bialk of Career Services, will be reviewing…

The Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business will host the annual Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lecture in Accounting on October 29. This year’s keynote speaker is Christopher D. Ittner, EY Professor of Accounting at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. The Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lectures in…

“It’s a hole in the system, no question about it,” said Richard Kuppelweiser, who was CEO of Mayview State Hospital, a state mental hospital in South Fayette that closed about five years ago. Alex Hribal, 17, was ordered to be transferred from the Westmoreland County juvenile detention center, where he has been held since his April 9 arrest, to Southwood Psychiatric…

Like everything else at the Cancer Support Community in Westlake Village, the bra served as a road sign for an oasis where survivors can talk about anything. Once known as the Wellness Community, the nonprofit support organization was launched 23 years ago by two nurses to give people a place to relate, share and survive. It serves 3,200 people from Van Nuys to…

Oct. 01– As the jury filed into the courtroom, Vicky Galati clenched family photos in one hand and a tissue in the other, waiting to hear what fate awaited her husband, accused of conspiring to murder their daughter’s boyfriend. The case, which had put the South Philadelphia family’s sordid dramatics on display over two weeks, ended Tuesday afternoon with the jury…

Hungry to snap up next spring’s crop of graduating engineers, a record 373 employers set up booths at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh Tuesday for the first of two days of N.C. State University’s biannual engineering career fair. The youngish throng of some 4,000 job seekers who packed the McKimmon Center marked a record turnout, too, with some traveling hundreds…

Sept. 30– LAS CRUCES– Four years ago, Republican Ben Hall won the District 5 seat on the Public Regulation Commission being vacated by Democrat Sandy Jones, who had decided to run for land commissioner instead. This year, Jones is challenging Hall to get his old seat back. The PRC regulates a wide variety of businesses in New Mexico including public utilities,…

Sept. 30– FORT WALTON BEACH– Every time Emma Ritchie reaches the edge of the football field, her mind is racing. It all started three decades ago when Emma’s mother attended a football game with her family and saw Brian Buckaroo gallop out onto the field before the start of a Choctawhatchee High School home football game. “I looked at my dad and said,’ I’m going to do it…

Oct. 01– The city of Centerville has removed more than 700 ash trees from Stubbs Park and 300 from Yankee Trace golf course as part of an ongoing effort to replace trees that have been deemed safety hazards. Removing the ash trees– severely weakened by the emerald ash borer– has cost the city roughly $200,000 in contractors and equipment over the past couple years,…

CareSource, Ohio’s largest Medicaid managed care provider, began selling its CareSource Just4Me brand commercial insurance products in Ohio’s marketplace this year. Indiana is expected to generate about 10,000 new marketplace members for CareSource in its first year, according to company officials, who declined to give projections for Kentucky and Ohio…

Earlier this month, Elmhurst Toyota was proud to sponsor the Talkie Trot 5 k Walk and Run. Proceeds from the event benefit children with special speech and language needs, and fund special therapy programs at the Center for Speech and Language Disorders in Lombard, IL. The Talkie Trot is a fun family event with participants of all ages– from grandparents out…

The state Attorney General’s Office charged Jessica Cardillo, 32, with felony insurance fraud, theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception. She has a preliminary hearing set for Oct. 7 in front of Magisterial District Judge Jay H. Dutton. Her stepmother, Dianne Cardillo, 49, and a friend, Michelle D’Angelo, 53, both of McDonald, also face…

Sept. 30– PORTLAND, Maine– The general manager of The State Theatre has signed an agreement to operate a new outdoor concert venue at Portland’s waterfront Thompson’s Point, where developers Forefront Partners are working on a broader redevelopment effort. “Until Thompson’s Point, there has not been a feasible site in Portland that can host concerts outdoors on…

New program: Representatives from Junior Achievement were at Central’s school board meeting earlier this month to give an update on the programming and introduce Real Life, a forum and day of activities for high school students that introduces students to concepts such as building a budget, dealing with student debt and other issues that young adults face.

Sept. 30– YORK– Through the Spring of 2013, John Ross Eddy, a former opera singer, woke before dawn to unlock the doors at the YMCA sports complexes at Lake Wylie and Tega Cay. The whole time from March to June 2013, for almost four months, Eddy tucked tiny hidden video cameras in the ladies shower room, even in a toilet stall, so he could watch and keep recordings of these…

The gathering is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Central Mall in south Salina. WorkForce Solutions, a division of OCCK that stages the expo every year, set a record by renting 43 booths filled with employers by Tuesday, and at least one more was interested. Booths can be rented as late as noon Friday by calling Shanna Consbruck-Sowers, director of Workforce Solutions, at…

Oct. 01– A Janesville woman was arrested in Oregon Sunday night after authorities said she drove drunk with two young children in her car and got into a crash. Torrie L. Carlson, 29, was charged in Dane County Circuit Court Tuesday with second-offense drunken driving, with an enhancer for having minors in the car. According to a criminal complaint, Carlson was…