Dallas

pBy Sarah N. Lynch/p pWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The internal watchdog at the Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded that the accusations of investigative misconduct against the enforcement division by Dallas Mavericks basketball team owner Mark Cuban have no merit, according to a person familiar with the matter./p pThe SEC sued Cuban in 2008 for insider trading, alleging that he had sold his 6.3 percent stake in Mamma.com in June 2004 after learning confidentially that the Montreal-based search engine company was planning a stock offering.

NESV owner John W Henry "proud and humble" to become Liverpool's new
owner today. Read his full statement.

Warning: This post contains spoilers. Welcome to Sucker Punch, the only blog post that ranks the gaudiest moments on this week’s episode of True Blood. Um… remember last week , when I worried the show was slowing down? Well, “Heard-Hearted Hannah” has settled my hash. There are so many sucker-punchy scenes in this installment that I could get carpal tunnel syndrome writing about them all. But before we begin… have you noticed that on the bottom right side of the screen, there’s an automatically generated ad leading you to the books I supposedly wrote?

JUNEAU, Alaska — An eighth letter containing suspicious powder and addressed to a governor’s office was intercepted in Alaska on Tuesday, and it bore a Texas postmark like suspicious mailings to other governors this week, officials said. A spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin said the letter was received Tuesday in Juneau at a mailroom about a block from the Capitol, and it was addressed to Palin’s predecessor Gov. Frank Murkowski, who left office two years ago. Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said the letter came from Texas, but she didn’t know which city.

McCain-Palin are treading on very dangerous ground by falsely tying Barack Obama to domestic terrorists and treason and invoking his middle name like a racial slur. They spent the last week stoking fear and trying to destroy Obama by branding him as unpatriotic. Today a psycho at one their rallies said, "I don't trust Obama. I have read about him. He's an Arab." Over the last few days, people have shouted "kill him," "traitor" and "treason" -- McCain & Palin have stood silently by and let it happen.