Sean Cooper

Oct 22, 2024 | thefp.com | Sean Cooper

Can you name the scrappy start-up that struck gold in 2020, earning its three female founders worldwide fame and $90 million in company revenue? Multimillion-dollar homes and a production deal with Warner Bros. soon followed, while friends and family were showered in consultant gigs worth millions of dollars.

May 2, 2024 | crimereads.com | Sean Cooper

Perched on a stool at the end of the bar of the Elks Club lodge 656, Gary Webb answered his black Nokia flip phone like a celebrity fielding live calls at a telethon fundraiser. After so many decades as a farmer, political agitator, activist, competitive fisherman, football coach, school board member, and historical preservationist, Webb, 69, was a well-established connector, the hub at the center of a giant wheel of people.

Apr 30, 2024 | crimereads.com | Sean Cooper

There was no good reason for Bob Ramsey, a veteran St. Louis defense attorney, to take on Mark Woodworth as a client. At first glance, Woodworth couldn’t appear more guilty. He’d already been convicted, not once but twice, of the same murder—once in 1995, and then again in 1999 after a retrial, when the judge, throwing the book at him, had sent Woodworth back to Missouri state prison with four life sentences. The evidence against Mark looked damning.

Nov 8, 2023 | money.ca | Sean Cooper

A geotechnical survey was done Tuesday and DriveBC, the province's online traveller information system, says Highway 3 between Keremeos and Hedley opened to single lane traffic in each direction by late afternoon. The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen says it has lifted the local state of emergency declared shortly after boulders crashed down on the section of highway about 300 kilometres east of Vancouver.

Nov 8, 2023 | money.ca | Sean Cooper

The bus maker, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says its loss amounted to 42 cents per share for the quarter ended Oct.1, compared with a loss of US$40.2 million or 53 cents per share a year earlierRevenue totalled US$709.6 million, up from US$514.0 million in the same quarter last year. On an adjusted basis, NFI says it lost 41 cents per share in its latest quarter compared with an adjusted loss of 60 cents per share a year earlier.