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An Amazon employee jumped from a building at the company’s Seattle headquarters after reportedly sending a disgruntled email to CEO Jeff Bezos and hundreds of his co-workers. The man, whose name is currently not public, survived the 12-story fall. He was critically injured and taken to a local hospital shortly after, Bloomberg first reported. Police reported the incident as a suicide attempt.

Seattle-based Internet retailer Amazon.com said Wednesday it has joined other large Northwest companies to support legislation that would legalize gay marriage in Washington state. Amazon's support comes as the state Senate prepares to vote on the measure, likely late afternoon or early evening Wednesday.

Earlier this year, a four-page document with a bland title, "Stipulation for Dismissal with Prejudice," was filed in a civil matter percolating on the King County Courthouse's ninth floor. Hardly anyone took notice. Most everyone had moved on. But that document — filed by lawyers tangled up in the estate of Stuart Greenberg, a nationally renowned psychologist whose life ended in scandal — signaled the end of a tortuous undertaking. Greenberg had proved such a toxic force — a poison coursing through the state's court system — that it took more than three years for lawyers and judges to sift...

Reporting from North Las Vegas, Nev.— Charles Mills can barely afford to stay here. But he also can't afford to move. That's why the 44-year-old heavy-equipment operator was preparing to leave his wife and young daughter here and go where he could find work — the Oklahoma oil fields. Mills has a mortgage to pay, even if its size pains him. He purchased his house in 2006 for $308,500. Current value: $105,797. "We talked about it: What can we do with the house?" Mills said. "Nobody's going to buy it. Nobody's going to rent it. If we walk away, my...

This man is a 10-year Navy veteran and 11-year microsoft employee. According to the news story an undiagnosed brain tumor affected his job performance and his manager "threw him under the bus" (gave him an unsatisfactory performance rating. According to the news story, once the brain tumor was diagnosed, Microsoft revoked his disability insurance because of his unsatisfactory performance rating. Here is his linkedin.com profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethknightley

Brooksville, Florida (CNN) -- Freda Green thought the battle was over when her husband returned from the Vietnam War. But more than seven years after his death in 2003, she says the U.S. Defense Department is demanding she repay more than $41,000 in benefits the government shelled out as part of an insurance policy he paid into.

From the video caption: Seven false green energy job 'myths' are debunked. This video was produced by http:rev-up.org -- a site that provides teachers and students all the resources they might need for renewable energy education.

Wondering about going galt. I have a car and a truck, both very old (early-to-mid 1990) probably each with book value less that $1k. I don't drive that much. Take the bus to work for the most part. I'm a renter - rent a house. I have cable/Internet, and land-line at home. I have a 'professional' private sector job, but I work from January to May for the Government. Things I already do: service my own vehicles, take the bus to work, keep thermostat at 58 degrees, small vegetable garden in summer. I have as much consumer crap as any...

ROME — A Milan court has convicted three doctors of performing unnecessary surgeries in what the Italian media has dubbed a "clinic of horrors," with the hospital's chief surgeon sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison.