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Captains of the state’s retirement, health care and education systems round out the top 10 highest paid employees in the 2008 Journal of Salaries, an annual list of all positions created by state statute.
The only other top earner with a salary of more than $200,000 is Dr. Don Williamson, the state health officer. Williamson earns [...]

As a 10-year-old boy, Matt Horsfield understood much of what was unfolding around him when his father, Pat, decided to start a construction business.
Now, as an adult and president of his father’s firm, Horsfield Companies, Matt Horsfield said he realizes how substantial his father’s undertaking was.
“Essentially, he gave up everything and sacrificed everything,” he said.
All [...]

Fifteen years ago, you almost couldn’t give a condo away. Now some people line up overnight to buy them. Partly that’s because of a housing market so hot that getting your foot in the proverbial door no longer means a derelict semi, but a pint-sized condo. But another reason is the condo lifestyle, which [...]

How do Belleville Bulls fans rate on a scale of one to 10?
“I’d give them a nine,” says Allison Myers.
The Stirling native and Loyalist College student ought to know. After all, she has spent a lot of time in close quarters with many of the Bulls’ most ardent supporters.
Myers is enrolled in the tourism, marketing [...]

She keeps a home for her husband, Scott, who was her college sweetheart and is now a marketing executive. She keeps an eye on her 20-year-old daughter, Abby, a sophomore at nearby Bates College, and her 18-year-old son, Anders, a high school senior.She confers with neighbors on how to replace an old neighborhood bridge [...]

By Cal Mankowski
NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) - Managed assets at Waddell %26amp;
Reed Financial Inc (WDR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) grew rapidly in the last year to $65
billion, with its Ivy Funds setting the pace, a senior
executive said.
The Ivy Asset Strategy Fund, which takes a “go anywhere”
approach, has been [...]

Keep in mind, though, that Jan Chipchase will probably be too busy with his job to talk much anyway. He could be bowling in Tupelo, Miss., or he could be rummaging through a woman%26#8217;s purse in Shanghai. He might be busy examining the advertisements for prostitutes stuck up in a S%26#227;o Paulo phone booth, [...]

(Adds index futures, updates table)
PARIS/LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) - European stocks were set to rise on
Monday, adding to the previous session’s gains, with buoyant commodity prices
expected to support shares of mining and energy companies.
Futures for the Euro Stoxx 50 STXEc1, for Germany’s DAX FDXc1 and for
France’s CAC FCEc1 [...]

By James Mackenzie
PARIS (Reuters) - The author of a best-selling
autobiography that told the story of a young Jewish girl saved
by wolves while hiding from the Nazis in wartime Europe has
admitted that most of the story was made up.
Misha Defonseca’s book, “Survivre avec les Loups” is known
in English as [...]

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It’s a wrap for New Line
Cinema.
The struggling studio behind the blockbuster “Lord of the
Rings” trilogy, will be absorbed into Warner Bros. Pictures,
their Time Warner Inc parent said Thursday.
The cost-cutting move will lead to the layoffs of an
undetermined number of New Line’s 600 staffers. [...]