Candy Magnate Loses Bid to Bar Drilling on Ranch
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A judge has ruled that an energy company may drill for natural gas on a sprawling Montana ranch owned by the billionaire candy magnate Forrest E. Mars Jr.
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By Leigh Dethman and Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  Salt Lake County leaders are fighting to keep $15 million in restaurant-tax revenue, which they would lose under a bill that cleared a Senate committee Wednesday.
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By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS\\ Staff Writer  LEBEC -- Hoping to protect rebounding condor populations, Tejon Ranch will ban hunters from using lead bullets on the massive property near the Los Angeles-Kern county line.
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Strike two for ballpark vendor "Bob the Beer Man." A federal appeals court refused to reinstate a lawsuit Wednesday filed by Robert Donchez, who accused Adolph Coors Co. of using his unique beer-vending persona in its "beer man" television commercials in 1999.
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Duane "Dog" Chapman cannot be extradited to Mexico to face criminal charges in his capture of serial rapist and fugitive Andrew Luster in 2003, a three-judge panel in Mexico has ruled.
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Actor Wesley Snipes lost a bid on  Wednesday to get a federal judge to cancel an arrest warrant  stemming from an Indiana paternity case.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.
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By ?Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Mar. 1--The long-rumored threat that rancher/developer Ernie Dalidio would be stalled by legal action before he could build his shopping center in San Luis Obispo came true Wednesday.
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The Senate on Thursday night dropped an amendment to the farm bill that would have banned fatty foods and high-calorie beverages at school snack bars, stores and vending machines, dealing a blow to its chances of passage.
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After a number of groups objected, Masterfoods USA, the maker of Snickers candy bars, has pulled the plug on a controversial Super Bowl commercial that showed two men accidentally kissing.
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Some of the fizz is gone from the proposed merger between Molson and Golden, Colo.-based Adolph Coors Co. Molson has had trouble convincing institutional shareholders the Coors deal
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THE DECISION: The state Supreme Court banned next week&#39;s planned bear hunt, saying the state does not have a proper plan to manage the animals.
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A South Korean man&#39;s legal battle against Coca-Cola to obtain compensation for his decayed teeth has ended in failure, the Korea Times reported.
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THE defence of Gold Fields against a hostile $8.1 billion (Â£4.3 billion) bid from Harmony Gold Mining, its smaller South African rival, was dealt a further blow last night when a US court threw out its legal challenge to the takeover.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - It was a big enough bummer for Kenneth Affolter when he was sentenced to more than five years in prison for making pot-laced treats and soft drinks. Now he faces the wrath of a candy giant. The Hershey Co.
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Jim Hall and his dad knew it was just a matter of time before the companies holding the rights to the natural gas under their ranch came knocking. They knew, too, there wasn't a thing they could do legally to keep the developers off their land.
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Chief Justice Elliott E. Maynard of the West Virginia Supreme Court disqualified himself  from further participation in a case involving a powerful coal executive.