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Bankrate, Inc. today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013. Total revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 was $335.2 million compared to $363.9 million in the comparable period in 2012, representing a $28.8 million or 8% decrease. “The improvement of the business has continued into the second half of the year…

Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm dedicated to protecting the rights of individuals against fraud, commends Mark Kirsch for successfully blowing the whistle on Kmart Corp. The Whistleblower filed charges that led the retailer to pay $2.55 million to the United States and 32 states to settle allegations that its national pharmacy centers had filed…

The Obici Healthcare Foundation awarded $2.2 million in grants to 28 nonprofit organizations that serve the Western Tidewater region on Oct. 15. To provide free, mobile medical services to medically underserved in Western Tidewater. Eastern Virginia Medical School, Specialty Care Center Project, $25,000.

Oct. 30– A partnership headed by many of the same physicians and other investors who built an 80- bed rehabilitation center in northwest Colorado Springs is building a second facility in northern Colorado Springs that will open in late 2014 with about 150 employees. The $17 million Center at Cordera, which will be built near Memorial Hospital North and St….

Tausha Carmack Alexander has been appointed executive director of Tennessee Railroads Inc., the trade association for Class I freight railroads operating in the state. In her position, Alexander will serve as TRI’s primary lobbyist in Nashville. Alexander has degrees from the University of Tennessee, where she was named a Torchbearer, and the University of…

On Oct. 23, West Virginia State Police responded to a hit and run crash with injuries on US 119 near Chapmanville. Another vehicle, a 2006 Volvo commercial truck belonging to Peerless Block and Brick, was sitting in the emergency lane. According to the complaint, officers ordered the driver, identified as Steven Lee Sansom, 21, of Chapmanville, to come from out of the…

Oct. 30– The Woodville Union School District Board of Trustees provisionally appointed Diana Oceguera-Martinez as its fifth board member during a special board meeting held Monday at Woodville Elementary School. Oceguera-Martinez will be sworn in at the district’s next regularly-scheduled board meeting on Nov. 4, joining trustees Amanda Medina, Fabiola…

Oct. 30– At the Tuesday meeting of the Scioto County Commissioners, an agreement was signed between the County Employee Benefit Consortium of Ohio and the county to provide some health benefits to its employees. We’re going to stick with Anthem for our vision and life insurance coverage, “said Doug Coleman, Scioto County Commissioner. According to Commissioner…

Oct. 30– CLAREMORE– Flawless Smile dentistry will host its fifth annual Free Dental Day from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday at the Claremore office located at 1502 W. Blue Starr Drive. MobileSmiles Oklahoma is a program co-managed by the Oklahoma Dental Foundation and Delta Dental of Oklahoma Oral Health Foundation. As one of the sponsors for Free Dental Day, First…

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30– TTI Inventions C, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent developed by Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Madison, N.J., and Faramak Vakil, Long Grove, Ill., for a “virus localization using cryptographic hashing.” ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30– Verizon Patent and Licensing,…

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Connecticut. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30– 3 M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent developed by Richard Francis Averill, Seymour, Conn., Jon Eisenhandler, Bristol, Conn., and Norbert Israel Goldfield, Northampton, Mass., for a “method of grouping and analyzing clinical…

To: Chief Executive Officers and Chief Risk Officers of All National Banks and Federal Savings Associations, Technology Service Providers, Department and Division Heads, All Examining Personnel, and Other Interested Parties. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency expects a bank to practice effective risk management regardless of whether the bank…

SUMMARY: The NCUA Board is issuing a final rule to require federally insured credit unions with less than $50 million in assets to maintain a basic written policy that provides a credit union board-approved framework for managing liquidity and a list of contingent liquidity sources that can be employed under adverse circumstances. The rule requires FICUs…

Written testimony of NPPD for a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency hearing titled “Facility Protection: Implications of the Navy Yard Shooting on Homeland Security”. We are pleased to appear before the Committee today to discuss the efforts by the National Protection and Programs Directorate to increase security…

This final rule also amends and adopts as final interim provisions set forth in the Amendments to the HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2014 interim final rule, published in the Federal Register on March 11, 2013, related to risk corridors and cost-sharing reduction reconciliation. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leigha Basini at 492-4380…

Oct. 27– ZEBULON– The two commissioners elected in this town Nov. 5 will join a board that will likely have to wean Zebulon off a major revenue stream. The five candidates for the Zebulon Board of Commissioners have weighed in on ways to keep the town’s budget balanced in the expected absence of the funding– which at the full rate was about $400,000, or 5 percent of the…