Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it
filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the
nation's
poorest major city.
Wisconsin Atty. Gen. James Doyle said Wednesday that his office
filed civil antitrust charges against the
nation's two largest makers of infant formula, Abbott Laboratories and Bristol - Myers Squibb Co., accusing them of working together to reduce price competition in bidding on a state - federal program to provide infant formula to
poor families.