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DETROIT (WJBK) - Billboards reminding Detroiters their vote is their voice are all over the city. They also mistakenly say the general election is September 2. Apparently the Detroit City Clerk's Office wanted the billboards updated on September 2 with the date of the general election. Clearly, the person responsible for the work got a little confused. No one caught the mistake until Clerk Janice Winfrey spotted the botched billboards and called the president of International Outdoor on Saturday, the same day the billboards were updated. The executive told us it was an honest mistake and his company's first in...

University of California officials said Monday they are fixing the tax forms of more than a dozen executives, after an audit found their pay wasn't reported correctly. UC President Robert C. Dynes said he and 19 other senior managers will get corrected W-2 forms for benefits the university did not properly report as taxable compensation. UC executive pay has been an issue for several months following a series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that UC quietly paid top leaders millions in stipends and other compensation at a time when student fees were being hiked to offset state...

In NEW YORK story of Nov. 5 headlined, "No bonanza for funds seen in Social Security reform," please read "... Pozen ..." instead of "... Pozens ..." throughout. (Correcting name) A corrected repetition follows: By Herbert Lash NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The bonanza many believe President Bush has handed the mutual fund industry with his plans to reform Social Security may be a mirage, industry leaders said on Friday. How workers will be allowed to invest some of their payroll taxes in the stock market is far from clear, but there is a presumption it will be windfall...

CIA 'corrected' Cheney's allegations on Iraq By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 11/03/2004) George Tenet, the Central Intelligence Agency chief, has cautioned Vice-President Dick Cheney about apparently overblown statements on Iraq and plans to do so again, he has revealed. Under fierce questioning from Democrats in the Senate, Mr Tenet said some of the most alarming allegations made by Mr Cheney and other administration leaders before and after the war did not reflect the consensus view of the intelligence community. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee of three occasions on which he had privately intervened to correct President George...