Hal Ellis continued with the company he and the Grubb brothers had formed, and served as its chairman and chief executive until 1992. He went on and built a truly outstanding boutique residential real estate company that is the leader in its market area. He was interested in being the best at one thing, with a lot of discipline, focus and goal orientation. Grubb traveled extensively and was a cook, photographer and family man, said his son. The privately held company has 58 agents. Georgia...

Staff at the Farm Sanctuary near Watkins Glen say a man in Ulster County brought ten lambs to his ex-wife's house as a gift to his daughter, but they say he didn't tell the women or provide them any way to care for the animals. The county SPCA took the lambs. Then three went to the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary and seven to the Farm Sanctuary. They're definitely going to need a lot of care in the next couple of weeks, said Daniel D'Eramo, a Farm Sanctuary employee. After that, Farm...

But what's more terrifying is that whatever it cost even if none of the three leads took more than minimal fees up front it will be lost money in the end. Even if WMG manages to finish a little higher by the end of Friday, the fact remains that nearly every day of this bear market notches them a little lower. Robert Redford's noble try for political discourse on film actually didn't do too badly last night. I say not bad because given the reviews and the reality of the situation, things...

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