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Carlyle sells off steel group for $3.53bn By Julie MacIntosh in New York Published: August 13 2008 00:24 | Last updated: August 13 2008 00:24 The Carlyle Group agreed on Tuesday to sell John Maneely, a US manufacturer of steel pipes and tubes, to Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel for $3.53bn, culminating a two-year turnround process. Carlyle has voluntarily filed to have the deal reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (Cfius), a panel that seeks to protect certain US national security interests from foreign investment.

(August 13, 2006)--A suburban New Orleans pastor says he believes Hurricane Katrina put the "fear of God" into the city, but he isn't sure that will last. The Rev. Grant Storms of The Reformer Church in Metairie, La., says New Orleans is a more sober city, literally and spiritually, than it was before Katrina struck. He hopes New Orleans' French Quarter will now shed its immoral image and become a place that families won't be afraid to visit. But Storms notes that the annual Southern Decadence festival is scheduled to begin on Aug. 30, the day after the first anniversary...

Charles Kushner and his wife, Seryl, flanked by his lawyers Benjamin Brafman, left, and Alfred DeCotiis, arriving at the federal courthouse in Newark before Mr. Kushner's sentencing hearing yesterday. Photo/Dith Pran/The New York Times. NEWARK, March 4 - Charles Kushner, a multimillionaire real estate executive, philanthropist and one of the top Democratic donors in the country, was sentenced on Friday to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations. Mr. Kushner, 50, built a construction business begun by his father into a private real estate empire...