Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The potential for violence is an undercurrent at all political demonstrations and I've wondered whether the Tea Parties were prepared for that possibility. The Tea Parties are Disney versions of real (and potentially scary) political protests. Most of the Tea Party participants are firmly ensconced in the middle class and would bolt from all of them if lefty loonies showed up with guns. The folks at...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
November 5, 2009 (FinancialWire) Of the Most Actives , Tuesdays sessions trading showed 14 advancers versus 11 decliners. Volume leaders were led by Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) trading 77,460,500 shares closing at $4.04 (up 1.3%), the SPDR Trust ETF (NYSE: SPY) trading 38,915,600 shares closing at $104.65 (up 0.3%) and the PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ: QQQQ) trading 38,204,995 shares closing...
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Jessica Johnson submits: Sirius ( SIRI ) reports earnings on Thursday. Wall Street does not know what to expect from this NASDAQ stock, which has had a rollercoaster of a ride this year. The short position is rising, and currently stands at 4.7%. The price has been stable, but trade is thin. However, a number of related stocks - Emmis Communications ( EMMS ), Entercom Communications ( ETM ), and Cumulus...
Laptop blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Way back in January of 2007, we reported on the Strange family , who were suing Sacramento radio station KDND-FM for the wrongful death of Jennifer Strange, who was found dead in her home after competing in a contest to try to win a Nintendo Wii. The contest -- "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" -- involved seeing who could drink the most water without urinating, and Jennifer, who did not win, left...
DS Fanboy (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
It's been a while since we've heard anything about the tragic case of Jennifer Strange, the mother who died from water intoxication during an attempt to win a Wii in KDND-FM's "Hold your Wee for a Wii" radio contest. Yesterday, a California jury finally ruled on the wrongful death suit filed by the victim's family back in 2007. Entercom Sacramento LLC, subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Entercom...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
A family in the United Stated has been awarded 16.5 million U.S dollars following the death of a 28-year-old woman in a water-drinking contest. A Sacramento County jury found Philadelphia-based Entercom Communications Corp. and its Sacramento subsidiary liable for the actions of its employees at Sacramento radio station KDND-FM which organized the event. Jennifer Strange, a mother of three, died of...
Hctor.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
It's been a while since we've heard anything about the tragic case of Jennifer Strange, the mother who died from water intoxication during an attempt to win a Wii in KDND-FM's "Hold your Wee for a Wii" radio contest. Yesterday, a California jury finally ruled on the wrongful death suit filed by the victim's family back in 2007. Entercom Sacramento LLC, subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Entercom...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Bruce Maiman Nearly three years after it began, the saga of Jennifer Strange is over. A jury has awarded her family nearly $16.6 million as a result of her death in a water-drinking contest held in January 2007 by a local radio station. It sounds understated to say that this story is saddening and troubling, but it is because it says so much about so many, including us. It's not just the death of...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Billy Strange, whose wife, Jennifer, died in 2007 after a radio contest, talks to reporters at the Sacramento County courthouse Thursday after a jury awarded her survivors more than $16 million. With him are Nina Hulst, his wife's mother, and her husband, Mark. A Sacramento jury set an eye-popping standard Thursday on the cost of radio station contests that kill and the resulting loss of a mother's...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
This family photograph shows, from left, Keegan Sims, 10, Jennifer Lea Strange, 28, Jorie Strange, 11 months, William Strange, 27, Ryland Strange, 3, all of Rancho Cordova. A Sacramento Superior Court jury today awarded the survivors of Jennifer Lea Strange $16.57 million as a result of her death nearly three years ago in a water-drinking contest conducted by a local radio station. In making the award,...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
This family photograph shows, from left, Keegan Sims, 10, Jennifer Lea Strange, 28, Jorie Strange, 11 months, William Strange, 27, Ryland Strange, 3, all of Rancho Cordova. Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial over a woman's death nearly three years ago after her participation in a Sacramento radio station's water drinking contest. Sacramento Superior Court officials said the verdict will be...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Sacramento County jurors went home today without returning a verdict in the Jennifer Lea Strange wrongful death trial. The seven-man, five-woman panel will resume deliberations Tuesday at 9 a.m. in Sacramento County Superior Court. The case was filed on behalf of the survivors of the 28-year-old Strange, who died Jan. 12, 2007, as a result of a contest put on by radio station KDND "The End"...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Jurors concluded their sixth day of deliberations without a verdict Friday in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" wrongful death trial. The panel is scheduled back Monday to resume deliberations in the case filed over Jennifer Lea Strange's death that resulted from a water-drinking contest put on by radio station KDND "The End" 107.9. In what could be a very favorable signal to the plaintiffs...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Jurors in the wrongful death trial over a woman who died in a radio station's water drinking contest went home this afternoon without reaching a verdict. Deliberations will resume Monday in Sacramento Superior Court. The seven-man, five-woman panel has now concluded six days of deliberations in the case stemming from Jennifer Lea Strange's Jan. 12, 2007, death in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii"...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd A. Phillips sent a jury out to begin deliberations Thursday in the wrongful-death trial over a woman who died in a radio station's water-drinking contest nearly three years ago. The seven-man, five-woman panel took the case just before 11 a.m., in a trial in which 41 witnesses testified and 192 exhibits were admitted into evidence. The trial has consumed 26 court...
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