Parents of Wal-Mart heiress give up rights to name arena after her
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The University of Missouri&#39;s new sports arena is looking for a new name. The Paige Sports Arena opened three weeks ago, named in honor of Wal-Mart heiress Elizabeth Paige Laurie and a gift to the school from her parents.
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Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has been given the right to appeal a US judge's order giving the go-ahead for a huge sex discrimination lawsuit.
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Leona Helmsley, the hotel magnate who died last month, showed her enduring love for her dog, Trouble, by leaving the dog $12 million in her will.
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PC Magazine - Wal-Mart Stores has shut down "The Hub," its attempt to cash in on the craze for social networking with a MySpace-like clone.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. can no longer remain sheltered in its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters while potentially costly lawsuits pile up, Chief Executive Officer Lee Scott said on Wednesday.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D.  - Descendants of the storied Native American warrior Crazy Horse want a French strip club to stop using his name, saying it's disrespectful to him and his offspring.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. - The University of Missouri-Columbia's $75 million basketball venue was formally renamed Mizzou Arena on Friday, just days after the Wal-Mart heiress for whom it originally was named was accused of cheating her way through another college.
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Wal-Mart said it had ended the business because Hewlett-Packard, a chief technology partner, had decided to discontinue essential infrastructure for the service.
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NEW YORK -- The owner of the New York Knicks dismissed a top female executive solely in retaliation for accusing head coach Isiah Thomas of boorish behavior and to scare other unhappy employees, a lawyer said Thursday in closing arguments at the sexual harassment trial.
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Wal-Mart Canada will close one of its  two Quebec stores that won union certification last year after  failing to reach a labor agreement, the retailer said on  Wednesday.
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Clay Bennett, the Seattle SuperSonicsâ owner, filed paperwork to have an arbitrator rule on whether the club could escape the last two years of its arena lease and relocate. The team has sought construction of a new home arena and Bennett is from Oklahoma City, which drew rave reviews as a temporary home for the Hornets after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. A deadline for having a new arena deal is set for Oct. 31, the day the N.B.A. season opens.
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A settlement was reached Saturday in the dispute over the estate of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, including the rights to her name and image, a lawyer in the case said.
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Australian basketball star Lauren Jackson has dedicated the WNBA finals to the memory of her grandmother who died last month but the Connecticut Sun have spoiled it so far.
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Descendants of the native American warrior Crazy Horse want a change in the famed Paris strip club named after him. Alfred Red Cloud, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, delivered a letter Saturday to the operators of the Crazy Horse saloon asking them to change the club's name.
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After two years as the face of the antiwar movement, she has announced she's ending her public protests. A photographic look back at the antiwar mom's two years in the spotlight
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Beyonce Knowles and her mother, Tina Knowles, have been sued for $1.5 million by a former business associate who claims they neglected to compensate him for securing a deal involving their House of Dereon clothing line.
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NEW YORK - Ready for "The Curse of the Mick?" The family of late Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle expressed its anger Friday at a decision to temporarily rename the Yankee slugger's eponymous restaurant - and even worse, to call the place "Ted Williams," after the Red Sox great - following Boston's victory over the Bronx Bombers.