

Criminal gang shuts down part of Rio. Several districts of Rio de Janeiro were shut down Monday when a powerful criminal gang ordered stores and schools to close to protest the treatment of their incarcerated leader. [Google Headline News]
Labels pay to settle price-fixing suit. The major record labels will pay out $67.3 million to settle charges that they violated antitrust laws through ad practices that kept the prices of CDs artificially high. [Roymond Radio]
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The Arizona Daily Star is offering several different RSS feeds for personal and non-commercial use. [The Shifted Librarian via BlogRoots]
Man sentenced to death for food poisonings in China [Google Headline News]