Lucky Strike cigarettes on display July 26 (Bloomberg) -- British American Tobacco Plc, the world's second-biggest traded cigarette maker, said second- quarter profit rose 6.4 percent after the company increased prices on Lucky Strike and Pall Mall cigarettes. Lucky Strike cigarettes on display July 26 (Bloomberg) -- British American Tobacco Plc, the world's second-biggest traded cigarette maker, said second- quarter profit rose 6.4 percent after the company increased prices on Lucky...

Klang had discovered the tobacco in the boy's bag earlier in the day after another student told him about it, and the principal had ordered Hainstock serve in-school suspension. Hainstock's attorneys counter the boy was abused at home and upset that Klang and other teachers had done nothing to keep other kids from teasing him and calling him a "fag. Nowak's testimony is key for prosecutors, who hope to show Hainstock was so angry at Klang and Nowak because they had disciplined him he...

She said that from the safety of a special education classroom, where she had barricaded herself and students after word got out that Hainstock had a gun at school, she heard five shots. Young, a guidance counselor at Weston for the past two years, testified Monday at Hainstock 's first-degree murder trial. Although Hainstock complained of being teased and picked on, he never complained of bullying by others -- which, Young said, is a more persistent, domineering type of behavior. A...

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The moment many feared and predicted finally came on Thursday, when shares took their biggest tumble since the dark days of 2003. While the FTSE was falling through the floor last week, a number of savvy investors were picking up large stakes in British companies at knock-down prices. Many of the hedge funds stung by the collapse of their investments in structured credit vehicles, have been selling equities to raise this money. In this series of articles, we look at what the wider knock-on...