| Jones's jail sentence is signal for U.S., says Coe
Coe told BBC radio: "I can't be glowingly happy that a young mother with two children goes to prison for six months but if the message out there is that at long last American track and field takes this problem seriously then it's a positive. "They have woken up to the fact that this is a very disfiguring episode in their own sport," said Coe, a vice-president of athletics' ruling body and a former double Olympic champion. "The organization of the American anti-doping agency and American track and field now recognize there is a responsibility to sort this problem out. "This is a very damaging episode for my sport and we have to move on with better protocols in place and an American sport that recognizes they are part of the global sport. "It's not just enough to come to compete on the European circuit and forget they need to promote the better qualities of the sport in their own country." Jones, 32, retired last October and confessed to betraying the trust of her fans after years of denying she used performance-enhancing drugs.
The terrible reach of online scams
I wanted to make sure this didn't happen to someone else, but I can't." Like thousands of other Minnesotans being scammed on the Internet or on the phone, Giancola found it nearly impossible to do anything. Americans are now taken for more than $5 billion per year in various scams, according to Federal Trade Commission estimates. And while the prevalence of scams is growing as criminals take advantage of increasingly sophisticated technology, prosecutions are few and far between. "We're working it aggressively," said the FBI's Paul McCabe, a special agent in the Twin Cities. "But, sadly, there's so much [fraud] we just have to go after the biggest offenders. Sometimes the best thing we can do is education." Police blotter checks from Twin Cities suburbs in the past few months show dozens of victims or potential victims.
State pushes money literacy
A new policy will force students to learn Money 101 in a state with one of the highest numbers of bankruptcy filings in the nation. The State Board of Education votes Jan. 25 on a requirement, starting with today's seventh-graders, that students take a personal finance class in high school. It's expected to pass, and local districts will determine which year of high school to offer the course, said David Sevier, the education board's policy adviser. .
Business Briefing
Starbucks Corp., which returned Chairman Howard Schultz to the chief executive job earlier this week, hired former executive Harry Roberts and put him in charge of the "look and feel" of the coffee chain's stores. Chris Bruzzo was appointed to a new chief technology officer position to find ways to build loyalty programs, the Seattle-based coffee chain said Friday in a news release. Terry Davenport was promoted to senior vice president to run a new unit that will develop new products. Expeditors among defendants in federal antitrust lawsuit Expeditors International of Washington Inc. disclosed late Friday that it has been named as a defendant, along with seven other European and North American global logistics companies, in a federal antitrust class-action lawsuit filed in New York.
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