The company s decision was the latest indication that the private equity boom may be coming to an end. Cadbury, the world s largest candy maker, extended the deadline to sell its American beverage unit, the maker of Dr Pepper and 7Up, saying that even though interest in the business remains strong it wants to allow bidders to complete their proposals against a more stable debt financing market. Cadbury, the world s largest candy maker, extended the deadline to sell its American beverage...

school principal tried to reason with teen who then fatally shot him Eric Hainstock was arrested in September 2006 after shooting his high school principal. His attorneys contend that, although the teen's decision to bring a loaded rifle and handgun to school was reckless, he did not intend to shoot and kill his principal. Joshua Manock said that minutes later, he heard three separate gunshots as he ran with other students for cover on Sept. Hainstock's attorneys argue that Hainstock was a...

BARABOO-- A boy accused of shooting and killing his principal picked on other kids and even hurled his backpack at them in an effort to get attention, students and a counselor testified Monday. Nowak also testified Hainstock accused him the day before the shooting of telling Klang he had chewing tobacco in school. But when she investigated the school incidents, she would find the teasing involved Hainstock along with one or two other students and was instigated by him. According to a...

Opponents also said the Partnership never should have received court-ordered payments of $20 million a year from the state's settlement of a tobacco lawsuit filed by Moore. Critics say the group was simply a machine to promote Moore's political career - an accusation that Moore, who chose not to seek re-election in 2003, has always dismissed. They served together on the board of the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, a private, nonprofit group created to deter kids from smoking and to...

Despite cigarette sales dropping 18 percent in the state this year, the Vick family planted more than every before this time. Nearly half of Vick s tobacco is sold in other countries, and he said he doesn t care who s buying it, as long as it keep bringing in the money. We re still higher, but we re much closer than we ve been in price. Tobacco Rising See why, though tobacco sales are down in the state, farmers continue to plant even more of the leaf. NORTH CAROLINA -- Though cigarette...

Hainstock's attorneys contend the shooting was an accident and Hainstock brought guns to school to convince Klang and other teachers to stop other kids from teasing him relentlessly. Samuel Brandt, a 17-year-old football player at Weston, testified he'd see Hainstock get in pushing and shoving matches with other kids in the halls, but "he would push people more than he would get pushed. Eric Hainstock picked on other kids as much as they picked on him, his fellow students testified today...