Emotions dominate as bank’s board is grilled (The Herald)

In the end the vote was clear-cut, with 95% of Lloyds TSB shareholders backing a merger with Halifax Bank of Scotland and the creation of the UK's biggest retail bank.

Bank Robber Gets $5,700 (Des Plaines Journal)

The downtown Des Plaines CitiCorp Bank at 1525 Ellinwood Ave. was robbed once and then entered after closing time in two separate incidents last week.

Shopping at Weedmart (San Diego Reader)

Colleen Daley lives on a sunburnt patch of overzoned Chula Vista real estate. She is besieged by the odiferous crosscurrents of wafting grease and the crackling bark of drive-in order speakers — her one-bedroom ranch is surrounded by fast-food joints.

Giant International Debuts First All Touch Multi-Media Wi-Fi Digital Internet Frame (Broadcast Newsroom)

ATLANTA, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/19/08 -- Giant International today unveiled its Intouch IT7150 digital photo frame , which takes the Wi-Fi digital frame to the next level by providing a complete multimedia entertainment experience.

NYPD opens new counterterrorism nerve center (The Charlotte Observer)

(By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer) The setting could pass for a high-tech trading floor: men in dark suits, sitting at tiered banks of desks, studying a steady stream of video and data on floor-to-ceiling monitors. But the front doors to the 28th-floor office near Wall Street are unmarked, and the men aren't fixated on stock market fluctuations. The stakes in their line of business, they ...