BMW, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz Are The Most Valuable Auto Brands
22 May 2012, 9:51 am
How do you value a brand -- not a company, not a world-renowned CEO, but a brand? Marketing research firm Millward Brown knows, and its recent rankings of international brands puts BMW, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz at the top of the automotive sector. Millward Brown starts with quantitative data, looking at how much money brands have made and how...

Otisville prison a 'castle behind bars'
20 May 2012, 1:19 am
OTISVILLE — That's the sound of the men working on the gold-chain gang.

The cushiest sports jobs
19 May 2012, 7:28 pm
By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer Saturday, May 19, 2012 Punters If you think placekickers have a good life, what about punters? Pretty much all they do is kick a ball, too, and yet they don't have near the pressure of a placekicker. A busy game day for a punter is kicking the ball seven or eight times. If you're lucky enough to hook on with an offensive juggernaut such as the Patriots, you could ...

Carl’s castle behind bars
12 May 2012, 11:28 pm
That’s the sound of the men working on the gold-chain gang. White-collar criminals and crooked pols are banging down the door to get into Otisville federal prison. The reason? It’s a walled Shangri-la. “You could do about anything you wanted there,” said former inmate John Altman. “It’s...

2012 Fiat 500 Abarth vs. 2012 Mini Cooper S Coupe
1 May 2012, 2:05 am
Which Will Wear the Puny Performance Crown?

Bloc party for Carl & lover
1 May 2012, 12:44 am
They shared the good times — and now a corrupt New York politician and his partner-in-crime boyfriend want to share the bad times, too. The live-in lover of disgraced Brooklyn pol Carl Kruger asked the feds yesterday to lock him up in the same medium-security upstate prison as the former state...

Deputy accused of fraud
27 April 2012, 7:14 am
TAVARES GREG JONES | Staff Writer gregjones@dailycommercial.com A Lake County sheriff's deputy ha ...