Skydance Media on Monday was awaiting a response to its enhanced bid for entertainment conglomerate Paramount Global, in which it offered to buy nearly half of the nonvoting Paramount shares at $15 each, according to a source familiar with the matter. "We received the financial terms of the proposed Paramount/Skydance transaction over the weekend and we are reviewing them," said a spokesperson for movie theater owner National Amusements, which holds 77% of Paramount's class A voting stock. The new proposal follows months of negotiations between Santa Monica, California-based independent studio Skydance and Paramount, which, like other media companies, has been hit by the decline of the traditional television industry.
The vast majority of people will confidently say that the crime rate in the U.S. is going up, even though the best data we have suggests it's decreasing at a rapid pace.
A coroner's inquest into a workplace death at the American Iron & Metal scrapyard in west Saint John nearly two years ago got underway today with jury selection.Deputy chief coroner Michael Johnston and the five-member jury will publicly hear evidence from witnesses to determine the facts surrounding the death of Darrell Richards, a contractor.Richards, 60, was injured at the metal recycling plant on June 30, 2022, while cutting into a calender roll with a circular saw to strip material, held un