Not only is USHEALTH Advisors now on pace for another record sales year, the company has just recorded its highest level of late-summer sales, including a new company record for regional sales performance. Vice President of Sales Travis Yoder. “Product innovation is a hallmark of what we are all about,” said USHA President and CEO Troy McQuagge. “
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Sterling Bail Bonds, Southern New Jersey’s full service bail bonds company, proudly announces the debut of its website sterlingbail.com. If New Jersey residents in a legal bind, Sterling Bail Bond’s mission is to get them out of it. Located in Ocean County New Jersey, Sterling Bail Bonds was founded on the belief that in the moment of need clients should be treated…
Aug. 31– FAIRBANKS– At 5 feet 8 inches, John A. Miscovich was an unlikely giant in the Alaska placer mining industry. Miscovich, who died Aug. 22 at 96 in Orange, Calif., is on track to be a future member of the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame in Fairbanks, joining his father, pioneer Alaska miner Peter Miscovich. John Miscovich was born in 1918 in Flat, a settlement about 280 miles…
Aug. 30– Universities nationwide, including the University of Colorado, are under pressure from the White House, students, advocacy groups and government offices to respond more aggressively to acts of sexual misconduct on campus. In May, the U.S. Department of Education released a list of 55 schools with open Title IX investigations, a roster that included CU’s…
Aug. 30– A Sonoma Valley man was arrested Friday night in connection with the death of a man during a fight outside the Valley of the Moon Teen Center in Agua Caliente. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said Joshua Javier Gonzalez, 19, was booked into the Sonoma County jail on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter. Sheriff’s officials said Mario Zamudio Perez,…
Aug. 30– Monica Little, a pioneer of the local design-agency trade since she started Little& Co. fresh out of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1979, has stepped out of day-to-day operations and is selling her majority stake to her successor, Joe Cecere. Little, 59, is selling for an unspecified sum over “a long time” to Cecere, 44, the president and a 15- year…
Aug. 30– The prospect of a bin-busting crop has driven corn prices to their lowest levels in four years and raised fears of a prolonged slump for crop farmers in Minnesota and elsewhere. “It’s the absolute flip of where we were at 12 months ago,” said Mark Greenwood, senior vice president at AgStar Financial, referring to corn prices that have dropped from more than $6…
Aug. 30– Giving a push to the next great wave of the American women’s movement was probably far from St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman’s mind when he included paid leaves of absence for city employees when they become new parents in his 2015 budget proposal. Increasingly, St. Paul will be competing with other public and private employers for scarce young talent,…
Aug. 30– WILKES-BARRE– A security breach in Community Health System’s databases has resulted in 4.5 million patients being affected and a class-action lawsuit by five patients in Alabama that were affected. Based in Franklin, Tennessee, CHS owns or leases 206 hospitals in 29 states, including: Wilkes-Barre General Hospital; First Hospital in Kingston; Regional…
William Dando in the spring of 2012, helping him with laser surgeries and other cosmetic procedures he had begun performing at his longtime family practice on Frederick Road in Catonsville. Attached was a link to a news article from Dando’s days as a medical resident in Florida some 25 years earlier, showing that he had been convicted of following a woman home,…
Aug. 30– Authorities in Coffee County arrested a suspect Sunday wanted in Lebanon for a methamphetamine lab found in a car parked in the Walmart parking lot earlier this month. But Jamie Lee Smotherman, 40, of Brush Creek will have to wait to face local charges because he was released to Smith County authorities Tuesday to face a laundry list of meth-related…
Aug. 30– IOWA CITY– University of Iowa graduate students say low teaching wages and high fees are keeping talented young people from considering higher education. Kate Kedley, a doctoral student in the UI College of Education, serves as an adjunct instructor at Kirkwood Community College and Cornell College on top of her UI duties in order to support her three…
By Pat Shaver, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. McClatchy-Tribune Information Services Aug. 30–BLOOMINGTON — The grief of losing a spouse or…
Aug. 30– The pressures reshaping the nation’s hospital industry, which prompted a West Memphis hospital to close permanently on Sept. 7, are also challenging the two major hospital systems based in Memphis. Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. is having a rougher time navigating the waves of change than Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, according to…
NuGrowth Community, the philanthropic arm of Strategic Insurance Software and its parent company NuGrowth Solutions, has donated to seven charities and foundations so far this year. This past year, NuGrowth Community’s donations to the Mid-Ohio Foodbank resulted in 22,000 meals for the hungry in central Ohio. The full list of philanthropic activities…
Aug. 30– Williamson High School Hall of Famer Mike Slater still holds the single game record at West Virginia University for the most interceptions in one game. Since he grew up in the Tug Valley on the Kentucky border, he knew a lot of diehard UK Wildcat fans. “I remember the summer before that season I saw Dom Gentile in Williamson,” Slater recalls.
Aug. 30– The city of Lodi will hire outside attorneys to represent itself, Lodi Police Chief Mark Helms and two Lodi police officers in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Sacramento rights attorney Mark Merin on behalf of Parminder Singh Shergill’s family. The resolution will also authorize City Attorney Janice Magdich to negotiate with Mayall Hurley, P.C. of…
The Lion’s Den in this instance is life-affirming rather than life-threatening, said Lisa Miller-Baldwin, founder of the Entrepreneur of Faith Conference. The Lion’s Den, modeled after the popular ABC reality TV show “Shark Tank,” will be the highlight of the final session of the Entrepreneur of Faith Conference set for Sept. 13 at Southern Nazarene University…
Aug. 30– WATERLOO– UnityPoint Clinic-Family Medicine will host an open house on Sept. 9 at the recently opened Family Medicine Clinic on Dale Street. The open house will be from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the clinic, located at 212 W. Dale St., Suite 101. Tim Horrigan and Marti Hall, ARNP, receive free blood pressure checks and enjoy cookies and ice cream treats.
