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The Minnesota Wild fired coach Todd Richards on Monday after the team missed the playoffs in each of his two seasons. General manager Chuck Fletcher announced the decision a day after the Wild finished in 12th place in the Western Conference at 39-35-8, 11 points out of the final playoff spot. An eight-game losing streak in March sealed their postseason fate.

Warner Brothers announced that it had fired Charlie Sheen from his hit comedy “Two and a Half Men.”

A Florida woman fired from her company says she told she was "too sensual" for promotion and was dismissed because she complained of harassment. “You should try to hide your breasts because they are too distracting,” one manager allegedly told Amy-Erin Blakely, 43.

A northwestern Ohio school board is firing a longtime teacher after an investigation concluded she slept in class and repeatedly arrived late.

NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller isn't sorry about firing longtime news analyst Juan Williams last week, but now says she regrets how the network handled the episode. Schiller, who has come under fire from conservatives, said that NPR still stand[s] firmly behind the decision to terminate Williams contract after he commented about getting nervous when ...

Juan Williams, speaking on Fox's 'The O'Reilly Factor,' says people in Muslim garb on planes make him 'worried' and 'nervous.' NPR says the remarks 'were inconsistent with our editorial standards.' National Public Radio terminated the contract of commentator Juan Williams after he said on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor" that people wearing Muslim garb on airplanes made him "worried" and "nervous."

The New York Mets fired manager Jerry Manuel and general manager Omar Minaya on Monday, an expected shake-up of the big-spending ballclub after its second straight losing season.

CNN today fired anchor Rick Sanchez a day after Sanchez assailed The Daily Show host Jon Stewart as a "bigot" and suggested that CNN and the other networks are run by Jews. Sanchez made his rant Thursday on the Sirius XM radio show "Stand Up! with Pete Dominick". CNN acted within 24 hours. "Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well," the Time Warner cable news channel said in a statement. Sanchez recently lost his afternoon show on CNN Rick's List, which is being replaced by CNN Newsroom. The Daily Show considered Sanchez an intellectual lightweight compared to CNN stars Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blizter and made him the butt of jokes, which Sanchez resented and thought was racist. (He's Hispanic.)

LG CEO Nam Yong is stepping down October 1 due to slumping mobile phone sales.

Google confirmed on Tuesday that it fired an employee earlier this year for violating its policies on accessing the accounts of its users.