Object Oriented

Meriden police: Man passed off drugs before probation appointment

22 May 2012

MERIDEN — Police say two men face drug charges after officers caught one passing off drugs to the other so he could go to an appointment with his probation officer.

Deputy who tortured, mutilated wife, her lover sane, jury finds

22 May 2012

A former Los Angeles County sheriff s deputy convicted of torturing and sexually assaulting his wife and her lover -- leaving both badly mutilated -- was found legally sane by jurors in the case.

Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

21 May 2012

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which dates back to Cobol's early days in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next ...