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WDAM-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Laurel, Mississippi, United States, serving the Hattiesburg area as an affiliate of NBC and ABC.It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WLHA-LD (channel 18).
In 1983, in a coffee shop in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Bernard Ebbers and three other investors formed Long Distance Discount Services, Inc. based in Jackson, Mississippi and in 1985, Ebbers was named chief executive officer. The company acquired over 60 telecommunications firms, and in 1995, it changed its name to WorldCom. [3]
Business and economy Barclays plc chief executive Antony Jenkins says he will waive his bonus for 2012. (BBC) The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 points for the first time since 2007 as investors welcomed strong economic data from the United States. (CNN) Disasters and accidents At least 26 people are killed on the G30 Expressway in Henan province, China, after a truck ...
Casey's (); Dubuque Bank and Trust (); Fareway (); Happy Joe's (); Hartig Drug (); HNI Corporation (); Hy-Vee (West Des Moines); Kum & Go (); Lee Enterprises (); Maid ...
Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O) becomes the most expensive artwork ever to sell at an auction at Christie's auction house selling for US$179,365,000. (AP via Business Insider ) (BBC) Alberto Giacometti 's lifesized statue Pointing Man sells for a record US$141.3 million making it the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.
In 1795, to stock the store he and his brother-in-law Samuel Donelson ran at Hunter's Hill, [166] Jackson set off on a work trip to Philadelphia intending to buy trade goods and to sell lands that were still legally under Indian title. [167] There Jackson "traded land preemptions for flour, sugar, piece goods, and pocket knives."
The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was founded in Rochester, New York by Samuel L. Selden, Hiram Sibley, and others in 1851. [10] In 1856 the company merged with its competitor the Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company, controlled by John James Speed, Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith and Ezra Cornell [11] and, at Cornell's insistence, changed its name to Western Union ...
The News Journal covers New Castle County most in-depth, but also offers considerable coverage of the Delaware General Assembly and the Delaware beaches.The paper also offers limited coverage of northeast Maryland and southeast Pennsylvania, mostly by means of short news briefs.