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Workers on the second shift at Cummins Filtration were gathered together Monday, told the news, and sent home with a letter directing them to be back in the morning. Tuesday morning, with a team of security guards surrounding company officials, workers at the company's two Lake Mills plants got the word and were then sent home for the day to be with their families. Starting in November, about 400 jobs will be moved to Cummins manufacturing plants in San Luis Polosi, Mexico. The job shift will take four months, completed by March, 2010. The cost-cutting move will help the company...

Heather Mills 'may return to court for new Paul McCartney fight' By Emma Henry Last Updated: 3:29pm BST 01/04/2008 Heather Mills wants secret documents exposing Sir Paul McCartney's alleged behaviour during their marriage published and may return to court to make it happen, her lawyer has said. In an interview with the Evening Standard, David Rosen said Miss Mills wants to put the record straight over claims that she is a gold-digger who was only interested in the former Beatle's £400 million fortune. Heather Mills was described by Mr Justice Bennett as ‘her own worst enemy’ He said his client...

Heather Mills is trying to prove Sir Paul McCartney is worth much more than the £400million he claimed in their divorce battle. She has told friends she is employing a team of forensic accountants to examine her former husband's finances. Such information, she hopes, will lead to the divorce ruling being overturned and see more money go to their daughter Beatrice, four. In her impromptu press conference after the divorce hearing at the High Court, Miss Mills said: "We all know he's worth £800million. He's been worth £800million for the last 15 years." The Sunday Times Rich List put the...

Heather Mills, who earlier this week became millions of pounds richer, has signed up to become a judge at the upcoming Miss U.S.A. pageant. The charity worker is due to give her expert opinion on the beauty queens at the annual parade in Las Vegas next month. Osmond siblings Donnie and Marie are set to host the event set up by tycoon Donald Trump. Mills became a household name in the U.S. last year after her stint on the show Dancing With The Stars. However, she is a figure of hate in her home country of England where she was...

LONDON (AFP) - Heather Mills on Tuesday hit out at a judge's comments in his ruling on her divorce from Paul McCartney and admitted pouring a jug of water over the lawyer representing the former Beatle. The 40-year-old former model turned charity campaigner, who lost a bid to keep the full judgment on the divorce private, told the BBC that judge Hugh Bennett's criticisms of her as "less than impressive" were "outrageous". She also said that the decision to put the entire ruling in the public domain, including her home addresses, threatened her security and that of her daughter, four-year-old...

THE judge who heard the Sir Paul McCartney v Heather Mills divorce case said in his judgement that Heather’s evidence was “not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid." In his explosive ruling made public today, Mr Justice Bennett added: "Overall she was a less than impressive witness.” Mills hoped to be paid £125m from the Beatles' singer's fortune. And it has emerged she said she needed over £3million to fund her life of luxury. The judgement says: "In her letter of 31 January 2008 the wife computes her reasonable needs for herself and Beatrice at £3,250,000 p.a....

Money and plenty of it is all Heather Mills wanted to say hello, goodbye to Paul McCartney for good, and it looks like she's getting it. Two years after their highly publicized plans for a divorce were announced, Sir Paul has agreed to give Mills more than $108 million - a tidy $27 million for every year of their marriage, London's Daily Mail reported. Mills, 40, will pocket a nearly $40 million lump sum, with $5 million annual payments until their 4-year-old daughter Beatrice reaches 18.

McCartney and Mills' divorce battle to continue By Nick Allen Last Updated: 4:34pm GMT 15/02/2008 Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife Heather has criticised him for turning down a request from an autograph hunter as their divorce battle moved towards a bitter conclusion at the High Court. Heather Mills smiles as she leaves court The Beatles fan approached Sir Paul with an original version of the 1968 White Album as he prepared to enter Court 34 where the proceedings are being held in private. But, apparently Sir Paul turned him down, explaining he was sorry but he was not allowed to...

LONDON (Reuters) - Heather Mills has parted ways with the law firm representing her in a bitter divorce battle with former Beatle Paul McCartney, the firm said on Friday. The news emerged just over a week after the 39-year-old charity worker and former model lost her main PR adviser, who quit before she gave a series of emotional television interviews for which she was slammed in the media. "We can confirm that she is no longer a client," a spokeswoman for top legal firm Mishcon de Reya said. The Sun tabloid reported that the company had "fired" Mills over her...

When the U.S. Forest Service received no bids on two small timber sales in Eagle County earlier this year, the agency's local rangers encountered what is becoming a problem throughout the intermountain West. The federal agency got a lesson in market economics and the three-way tug of war over lumber in national forests. There were no bidders for the timber "salvage" sales designed to remove trees killed by infesting pine beetles. The Forest Service also wants to sell the dead trees so they won't add extra fuel to wildfires. The glut of dead trees is occurring at a time when...

LONDON (AP) - Heather Mills McCartney broke her silence Wednesday about her divorce from Paul McCartney, saying in TV interviews that she fears for her life because of death threats and blaming tabloids for her problems. Mills McCartney appeared on an ITV television morning show to complain about media coverage and to announce that she would seek European legislation to compel newspapers to apologize for untruthful stories. She also urged the public to stop buying sensationalist newspapers. "We've had death threats, I've been close to suicide. I'm so upset about this," Mills McCartney said on the ITV show. "I've had...

Paul McCartney offers Heather Mills £20m By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor Last Updated: 1:08am BST 20/07/2007 Sir Paul McCartney has reportedly offered a divorce settlement worth £20 million to his estranged wife Heather Mills. Heather Mills is reportedly holding out for £50 million At one stage there was speculation that the divorce settlement could leave the former Beatle with a bill for £20 million, but it is reported that Lady McCartney is holding out for £50 million. If the couple do not reach agreement, their financial dispute could be fought out in the High Court next year. The case is...

Heather Mills’ thus-far successful stint on ABC’s “Dancing with Stars” has convinced one former Heather-hater that “America should apologize” for making Paul McCartney’s estranged wife the villain in their bitter divorce battle. “I’m ashamed that I had a judgment against her based on everything that you read in the newspapers,” a caller identified as “Pat” told Ryan Seacrest who had the ex-Mrs. Beatle on his West Coast radio show yesterday. The caller continued to say he’d “love to apologize to her” for how the former model and animal activist “was wrongfully treated,” moving Mills to tears, People maggie reported.

Time to catch up on some Pop Culture. First, heh, Sir Paul McCartney wrestles with wife Heather, who's busy dancing with one leg and demanding millions from Paul. Also, what's up with America's comic books? Captain Marvel, Captain America…why are they being killed off? Also, Rita Cosby career in peril, Mike Jackson and his Beatles' ownership and some neat blind items.

Heather Mills is accusing her estranged husband Paul McCartney of repeated violence against her. Explosive court papers lodged by her lawyers in their £1billion divorce battle portray him as a 'vindictive' man who once tried to choke her and even attacked her while she was pregnant. Last night, Sir Paul's spokesman refused to comment on the allegations, but it is understood he denies them and that they will be fiercely contested in court. In an extraordinary escalation of their dispute, Miss Mills claims in the documents that the ex-Beatle: Subjected her to four violent attacks, including one in which he...

Logging trucks are again rumbling through town after a nearly 15-year hiatus. The Forest Service has reopened - or has plans to reopen - numerous drainages south of Eagle Ranch to logging... There are currently two active sales south of Eagle, with another in the works, said Cary Green, the White River National Forest's timber management assistant for the Eagle area. The 60-acre Beecher Gulch salvage timber sale, on Hardscrabble Mountain, sold in 2005, and about 500,000 board feet of timber is currently being harvested... A typical 2,000-square foot, single-family home requires about 27,000 board feet of framing lumber, paneling...

RICHMOND -- For nearly 40 years, Donna Loring was a Democrat. Thursday, she became a Republican. Loring, a Richmond selectwoman and former legislative representative for the Penobscot Nation, said she's disappointed with Democratic leadership and believes Republican Sen. S. Peter Mills should be the next governor of Maine. "We need solid party leadership to get this state out of the quagmire it's in," she said after filing paperwork at the Richmond Town Office to change her affiliation. Loring spent eight years in the Legislature representing the Penobscot Nation. She ran as a Democrat for the state Senate in 2004 but...

Your immediate attention and action is needed! DEFEAT BALDACCI! - SUPPORT A REPUBLICAN IN ONLINE POLL http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/051003menext.shtmlmust visit website to vote 2006 Governor's Race Who would you support for governor? John Baldacci, Dem. Peter Cianchette, Rep. Peter Mills, Rep. None of the above It looks as though the Portland Press Herald will be offering this question regularly through the 2006 election. John Baldacci hasn’t won one yet, let’s keep it that way.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A company that sought state approval for a major development deal on the city's waterfront made substantial campaign contributions to politicians who controlled the project's fate, a newspaper reported Saturday. Campaign finance records show that Mills Corp., which long has lobbied to build a $210 million retail and sports complex on Piers 27-31, contributed at least $53,250 to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and state Controller Steve Westly in the months before and after they endorsed the project, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Westly and Bustamante, who sit on the three-member California...

Acting legend Sir John Mills dies Sir John Mills, one of Britain's best-known and best-loved actors, has died at the age of 97. Mills starred in more than 100 films since the early 1930s including Great Expectations, War and Peace, and Ryan's Daughter - for which he won an Oscar. He died at home in Denham, Buckinghamshire, on Saturday after a short illness. He continued acting until recently despite bouts of ill-health. His only Oscar came in 1971. Sir John, father of actress Hayley Mills, was one of the UK's most enduring stars. He was made a CBE in 1960,...

Gov. Pataki proved again yesterday that failure is no bar to advancement in state Republican politics. Pataki nominated hapless GOP U.S. Senate candidate Howard Mills — the Orange County assemblyman who had the worst showing in history in his race against Sen. Charles Schumer in November — to be his new $127,000-a-year state insurance superintendent.

United States Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat from Brooklyn, won re-election to a second term yesterday by an enormous margin, outpolling the former top vote-getter in the state, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and fueling talk that he may soon become a candidate for governor. Mr. Schumer defeated his opponents with more than 70 percent of the vote, a figure that exceeded Mr. Moynihan's record for a Senate election of 67 percent in 1988. His margin is doubly noteworthy because Mr. Moynihan's record was set in his run for a third term, after 12 years in the Senate, whereas...

NEWBURGH, N.Y., Oct. 6 - The Lapis Lounge at the Chianti Ristorante was filled with local business leaders seated at tables draped with light blue tablecloths. This was the 66th Newburgh Developers Association lunch, and each person had paid $15 for a buffet of pasta, eggplant, meatballs and salad, and for a midafternoon chance to talk about revitalizing their small city along the Hudson River. But first, Howard Mills, the Republican assemblyman running for United States Senate, was to speak. "Honey, no Howard Mills is speaking," said Regina Angelo, the deputy mayor, as she escorted a visitor into the back...

Howard Mills does not have much money, or support, or, for that matter, basic name recognition in his bid to unseat United States Senator Charles E. Schumer. But Mr. Mills did manage to land a blow in his long-shot bid this week. Mr. Mills's staff pored over documents and maps and found that during his years in office, Mr. Schumer chartered private planes 603 times, spending $409,253 of taxpayer money. They asserted that they had caught the senator using tax dollars to fly around the state to raise campaign cash, which would be illegal, and turned their findings over to...

President George W. Bush gets a negative 40 -- 56 percent approval rating, his lowest ever in New York. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry beats President Bush 49 -- 35 percent in New York State, with 6 percent for independent candidate Ralph Nader. With Nader out of the race, Kerry tops Bush 53 -- 36 percent.

Susanville timber mill closing Sierra Pacific Industries blames move on cuts in harvesting on federal land David Benda Record Searchlight December 17, 2003 — 2:07 a.m. SUSANVILLE — This city is losing a major employer and its last timber mill. Sierra Pacific Industries announced Tuesday that it will close its 39-year-old sawmill by the end of the first quarter of 2004. The company cited the loss of government timber supplies and competition from foreign imports as reasons for the closure. The move will affect about 150 workers, SPI spokesman Ed Bond said. Workers at the mill make an average hourly...

The Marple Newtown School Board is scheduled to vote 7 p.m., June 17 on a budget of $46.5 million for the 2003-2004 school year. The budget for 2002-2003 was $44.3 million albeit spending is expected to be $1.3 million less. Most of the increase is due to rising salaries -- salaries make up 80 percent of the budget -- an increase in the Pension Fund, and increased costs for Blue Cross and Blue Shield, said MN Director Jim Cashel.

<p>LONDON, England -- Paul McCartney's wife Heather is pregnant with their first child, a spokesman for the couple has announced.</p> <p>"We are delighted with this happy news," the couple said in a brief statement.</p> <p>The baby is expected later this year, the spokesman said.</p>

ABOUT a month ago in these pages, I had cause to complain about the headline appended to my review of George W Bush's first year: quot;My, How You've Grownquot;. I pointed out that, as I've always regarded the President as a colossus who bestrides the planet, he could hardly grow any more in my eyes. Well, if the Executive Editor (Headlines) is short of inspiration this weekend, feel free to use my suggestion: My, How You've Shrunk. Last Tuesday was the absolute low point of the Bush presidency. Even in the wobblier moments of September 11 and 12, he never...