In the good-news/bad-news spirit of Good Friday comes this report from the Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey of private economists out today: 86 percent of of them think that the recession will end in the second half of this year. However, they said, unemployment -- which stands at 8.5 percent -- will keep rising into 2010.
The economists predicted unemployment will peak next year at 9.8 percent.
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Police have signed a warrant on an employee they say helped two men rob Arby’s, 161 S. Pine St., at gunpoint about 10:10 p.m. Friday.An employee said she was sweeping the floor when a customer placed an order for two French dip combos with small drinks.
The employee said she began making the drinks when she noticed two men wearing ski masks were in the vehicle.
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Carl Pavano (0-1), who made his first start for Cleveland after being a free-agent bust with the Yankees the past four seasons, gets the loss in one full inning pitched.
A student teacher at a Sussex County elementary school admitted having sexual encounters with a pupil in her car and in her bedroom prior to her arrest last week, according to an affidavit of probable cause released today by the county prosecutor's office.
A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The Yankees insist CC Sabathia is healthy, but the heating pad, a dip in velocity and his awful results on Opening Day are causing some knowledgeable baseball observers to wonder what was happening when the lefty got rocked by the Orioles.
There's a rumor making the rounds today from the Arizona Republic that Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald could share the Madden NFL 10 cover.
With the more-needs-than-one-player-could-ever-fill Lions holding the first overall pick in a year with no obvious candidate worthy of being the initial name called, the question is coming up again. What if the team with the No. 1 overall pick in the draft chooses not to use it?
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A father caught her daughter chatting on websites he had blocked, and alleged his daughter was posting "inappropriate pictures" of herself online. Her punishment: she was banned from her Grade 6 graduation trip to Quebec City in June 2008, for which her mother had already granted permission. The father — who had custody — withheld his written permission for the trip, prompting the school to refuse to let the girl go with her classmates. That's when the girl asked for help from the lawyer who represented her in her parents' separation, and petitioned the court to intervene in her case. A lower court ruled in the girl's favour in 2008.
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A disclaimer on the box says full growth takes between 1-2 weeks, but the shelf life for "Chia Obama" has expired. Walgreens has ordered stores in Tampa and Chicago to remove the product, saying the ceramic planter molded in the apparent likeness of the president was not appropriate for sale.
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