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A Charleston gentlemen's club that turned not-so-gentlemanly after a 2001 fight between employees and two patrons filed for bankruptcy this week, more than two years after it was ordered to pay $1 million in legal damages to the customers involved in the altercation. | |||
Strip club says it is bankrupt A Charleston gentlemen's club that turned not-so-gentlemanly after a 2001 fight between employees and two patrons filed for bankruptcy this week, more than two years after it was ordered to pay $1 million in legal damages to the customers involved in the altercation. Trial testimony becomes testyA federal breach of contract trial pitting local real estate investor Richard C. Davis against major television network A&E turned personal Thursday. A&E's New York-based attorney Jeremy Feigelson worked to disprove Davis' claim that his Trademark Properties and the network verbally agreed to a 50-50 profit split from the reality series "Flip This House." Dow, as in DownWASHINGTON â" A fresh wave of bad economic news, including a half-million Americans newly out of work and the weakest October retail sales in nearly 40 years, pummeled the stock market Thursday, driving the Dow Jones industrials under 9,000 again with a stunning two-day decline of 10 percent. Banks bouncing back, borrowers still waryNEW YORK â" Billions of federal bailout dollars are flooding the financial system, credit markets are loosening and many banks say they are ready to lend. But a crucial piece needed to solve the credit crisis is still missing: borrowers. With the economy slowing, banks are seeing a big decline in the number of people seeking loans because nervous consumers and small businesses are scaling back their borrowing. | |||
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