Kimberly schools to pursue levy, declare financial emergency

KIMBERLY On the same night it joined the statewide declarationof financial emergency for public schools, the Kimberly SchoolDistrict decided to seek voter approval for a supplementallevy.,Accusations that Goldman Sachs defrauded customers who bought investments tied to risky mortgages have only just begun to reverberate in the financial world.,It appears the White House will have to search elsewhere for Republican senators willing to support their financial reform bill, which the Senate is expected to take up next week.,HAMILTON First Financial Banks President and CEO Claude Davis took a 27 percent pay cut last year, despite record earnings thanks to the U.S. Treasurys Troubled Asset Relief Program.As part of the TARP program, banks were not allowed to pay top executives bonuses, retention awards or incentive compensation, as was the case with Davis, the company said in its annual proxy statement posted to ...,Unwilling to negotiate further, Democratic leaders said Thursday they want to move forward on financial regulation legislation next week even as Republican leaders tried to unify their members against the bill in hopes of winning further concessions.,FILER Slashed state public school funding due to a saggingeconomy forced Filer School District to join the statewidedeclaration of financial emergency on Wednesday night.,WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama vowed Friday to veto a financial overhaul bill that doesnt regulate the eclectic derivatives market, even as Senate Republicans lined up en masse against it.,Santa Cruz County Sheriff's detectives said that Thursday's murder-suicide on Hutchinson Road was motivated by a financial dispute and a lawsuit between the two men.,NEW YORK When youre done with your tax return, your first instinct may be to stash it in a drawer and put it out of your mind until next year. That would be a mistake.,Financial shares dragged the stock market lower Friday as investors worried that the government's mortgage-related fraud charges against Goldman Sachs