Electricians to play alumni on Saturday
MARQUETTE - Hockey is supposed to be fun no matter what level you're playing. At 6:30 p.m Saturday, the Marquette Electricians Midget AA squad will take a break from its busy regular season schedule to play their local alumni at Lakeview Arena for fun ... and for charity.

Gang members plead no contest
Two Half Moon Bay Sureño gang members pleaded no contest last week for trying to start a fight at the Strawflower Village McDonald?s restaurant after accosting electricians whom they accused of being in a rival gang because they wore red clothes.

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We are seeking experienced Electricians to join our land rig operations in Egypt. This is an opportunity to join a company with the personal touch for a long term career where you can develop professionally and personally.

Boeing plane orders, deliveries fall in 2008
PITTSBURGH -- Hurt by a late-year strike and shrinking airline demand, Boeing Co.'s passenger jet deliveries fell 15 percent in 2008, ensuring that archrival Airbus retained its rank as the world's top plane maker.

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Ensign International Energy Services are seeking experienced Oil and Gas Drilling Rig Electricians to work a 21 day on/off rotating cycle in Australia.

Seeds Of The Satyam Scandal
How B. Ramalinga Raju's pride--and risk-taking--created India's Enron.

BIW to eliminate 179 workers
Bath Iron Works is laying off 179 workers, the largest single job cut in at least three years for the Navy shipbuilder, officials said Thursday.

Business Websites: Do You Really Need One?
Maybe the Web is overrated.

Bath Iron Works to lay off 179 workers
Bath Iron Works is laying off 179 workers, the largest single job cut in at least three years, officials said Thursday. The layoffs, effective Jan. 23, reflect workload instability as the Navy?s DDG-51 destroyer program winds down and production of the next-generation DDG-1000 destroyer ramps up.

Elections are still won, but inaugural balls are lost
Sadly, sometime in American history, the inaugural ball became, to put it bluntly, hideous.

Budget problem 'unprecedented'
Gov. John Lynch struck a stark tone in his third inaugural address yesterday, telling the assembled crowd of lawmakers and dignitaries that recession has brought the country to a "critical juncture" and that the state of New Hampshire now faces a "budget challenge of unprecedented dimensions."

Boeing expected to post fewer deliveries for 2008
PITTSBURGH - Boeing Co.?s deliveries of passenger jets nose dived last fall as a strike froze the company?s commercial aircraft factories, and that disruption is expected to dent the airplane maker?s overall tally for 2008.

ODD JOBS: In the chimney business
Not long ago, the art of chimney sweeping was a dying trade.

Boeing plane orders, deliveries fall in 2008
Hurt by a late-year strike and shrinking airline demand, Boeing Co.'s passenger jet deliveries fell 15 percent in 2008, ensuring that archrival Airbus retained its rank as the world's top plane maker. Orders for Boeing planes, meanwhile, plunged by more than...

Strike, weaker demand hurt 2008 Boeing deliveries
Hurt by an autumn strike and shrinking airline demand, Boeing Co.'s passenger jet deliveries fell 15 percent in 2008, ensuring that archrival Airbus retained its rank as the world's top plane maker.

NH Gov. Lynch inaugurated to 3rd term
After taking his oath to a third term Thursday, Gov. John Lynch rejected again -- as he has consistently -- the need for an income or sales tax to weather the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Committee talks Fox Theatre, Streetscape
Tuckpointing work has started on the Colonial Fox Theatre, and Vonnie Corsini said roof work is only some good weather away.

New Scheels: Space, selections 'bigger, better'
With its Valentine's Day grand opening still more than five weeks away, the new Scheels sports store at the Rushmore Crossing development is still very much a work in progress.

Boeing's deliveries, plane orders drop in 2008
Hurt by an autumn strike and shrinking airline demand, Boeing's passenger jet deliveries fell 15 percent in 2008, ensuring that archrival Airbus retained its rank as the world's top planemaker. Orders for Boeing planes, meanwhile, plunged by more than half last year, following three straight years of exceptionally strong bookings, a grim reminder that carriers have been scaling back spending ...

Onslow Schools want to put Obama's stimulus plan to good use
Onslow County Schools officials think they could put President-elect Barack Obama's plan to stimulate the economy by funding construction on the nation's infrastructure to good use.