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Insurance Auto Auctions Announces Improved Fourth Quarter and Full ...

WESTCHESTER, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2007--Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leading provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2006. The Company's strong performance in 2006 was driven by successfully integrating acquisitions and greenfields along with increased buying activity as a result of the Company's live auctions combined with Internet bidding capability. The Company recorded revenues for the quarter of $92.6 million, compared to $69.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2005, an increase of 32.5%. Fee income in the fourth quarter increased to $79.2 million versus $59.6 million in the fourth quarter of last year. The Company reported Consolidated EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) consistent with the definition in the Company's senior credit agreement of $15.8 million during the quarter compared to $10.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2005, an increase of 56.4%.

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Insurance.com Buys 4insurance.com

Online agency Insurance.com has purchased personal lines insurance shopper 4insurance.com, one of the original insurance sites on the internet.

As a result of the acquisition, 4insurance.com will offer car insurance quotes from over a dozen auto insurance companies.

Launched in 1996 by iHomeowners, 4insurance.com offers consumers the ability to shop for auto, life, home and health insurance products.

At 4insurance.com, consumers answer one set of questions in order to get multiple rates from top companies, and can then select and purchase a policy online or over the phone with in-house licensed agents.

Insurance.com, based in Solon, Ohio, is owned and operated by Insurance.com, Inc., a ComparisonMarket Company. In addition to car insurance, it sells life, health and home insurance as well as travel, dental and pet health insurance.

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Oscar Predictions: What will the nominees wear?

You've seen my trend predictions, we've raided the couture shows for tips, and now I'm ready to make wild claims that'll no doubt prove untrue. It's time for the Catwalk Queen pre-Oscar predictions. Nope, I'm not guessing who'll win the gongs, but which designers and looks the female nominees will go for. My money's on Cate Blanchett (shown left at the Berlin Film Festival in a purple Yves Saint Laurent number I picked up on a few days ago) and Kate Winslet looking the best....

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Penélope Cruz in "Volver" Penélope is a big fan of subtly romantic, timeless looks from designers like Oscar De La Renta and Georgio Armani, and usually goes for strapless shapes and dramatic colours. She's done yellow, black and green so perhaps this year she'll be one of the ladies in white or pale peach or blue? It wouldn't surprise me, though I'd like to see her in something more dramatic, perhaps deep red or a bold blue, or really detailed beading or embroidery.

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Jury finds Springfield man guilty of killing Sheila Wilson

DECATUR - A Macon County Circuit Court jury took less than three hours on Friday to find Tony A. Rolfe guilty of first-degree murder in the May 4, 2003, stabbing death of Sheila M. Wilson.Associate Judge James Coryell set Rolfe's sentencing hearing for April 24.The 30-year-old Springfield man faces 20 to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced, said Assistant State's Attorney Steve Langhoff, who prosecuted the case with Assistant State's Attorney Elizabeth Dobson.Rolfe will have to serve 100 percent of whatever sentence he receives, Langhoff said.Wilson, 30, suffered at least 50 stab and cutting wounds from a box cutter-style knife and died from loss of blood in the basement of her mother's house in the 1900 block of East Prairie Avenue. Police found bloody shoe impressions in the basement and kitchen of the house.A theory of the case presented by state witnesses was that Wilson was killed when Rolfe went to her house to steal up to a pound of marijuana.Key testimony in the weeklong trial came from Torre Wilson, Sheila Wilson's boyfriend at the time of her death.

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Accessories for iPods proliferates

From a solar-powered battery charger that fairly shouts "eco-friendly rawk!" to a clock-radio fit for a space odyssey, there are better ways to run your iPod.

Feeding, clothing and caring for your iPod with accessories has become a major American growth industry, seeing as how Apple sold 21 million of its media players in the last three months before Christmas. Estimates put the sales market for iPod add-ons at $1 billion a year, and growing fast.

Companies like Griffin, Belkin, JBL and Bose have either launched or revived entire brand names by jumping on the iPod's goodwill marketing train.

Many of the accessories are ridiculous, of course. Do you need the $40 iFish that amplifies your iPod and flops around on the floor in time to the music? Or the iPod dock for the bathroom that also dispenses toilet paper? We think not.

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Wilson's rise proclaims the revenge of the nerd

Rainn Wilson -- perhaps better known to you as sycophantic, promotion-obsessed paper salesman Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office -- has a dream for his deluded character. Dwight will marry his love interest Angela (Angela Kinsey), procreate feverishly and create, in Baron Von Trapp fashion, a dynasty of singing Schrutes. "They could sing Amish war anthems, if such a thing exists," says Wilson.

Dwight Schrute is among the most enjoyably cringe-worthy characters TV has produced. "I love that the writers keep throwing me different things to do," says Wilson. "I can be a crypto-fascist nerd, but show a lot of colors and textures."

It was another nerd -- Arthur on HBO's Six Feet Under -- who got Wilson an audition for the lead in The Office. The part of Michael ultimately went to Steve Carell, but Wilson nailed Dwight, drawn, as he told one reporter, on "a whole slew of white trash middle managers and gun enthusiasts in my family."

Two years and a Dwight bobblehead doll later, Wilson, 41, is taking a turn for the serious in the new film The Last Mimzy, in which he plays a likable science teacher named Larry White who is drawn into an E.T.-like spiritual quest.

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Man, 30, charged in hit-and-run death

Police on Friday charged a township man in connection with the hit-and-run death of an 84-year-old township woman, who was struck after leaving the diner where she had been a regular customer.

Timothy J. Napolitano, 30, of Sharon Drive was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in a fatality and with tampering with evidence, according to the Monmouth County Prosector's Office.

The victim, Helen Adams Gilman, initially survived the crash on Feb. 9, but died eight days later at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune.

Gilman sustained a severe head injury and a broken left leg when she was hit about 8:15 p.m. after leaving the Sunset Diner on Sunset Avenue. The force of the impact carried her up into the car's windshield and back onto the roadway, according to the police investigation.