Morning Links: 21 August 2008

CCA promotes execs, local exec named COO of China ag company, progress in O'Charley's franchise suit, and more...

Email | Print By Geert De Lombaerde

Corrections Corp. of America has promoted former Stokes Bartholomew attorney Lucibeth Mayberry as well as three others. The company (Ticker: CXW) also has beefed up its business development team.

Hendersonville-based agribusiness executive Gerry Daignault has been named COO of New York-based AgFeed Industries Inc. (Ticker: FEED), which expects to book $150 million in revenue this year rearing hogs in China.

Community Health Systems (Ticker: CYH) outlines its expansion plans should it complete its proposed acquisition of a Pennsylvania health system.

O'Charley (Ticker: CHUX) says a Wisconsin judge recently dismissed a suit against the company by a joint-venture group and cleaned up a related Tennessee case that will go to trial early next year. Click here and search for Wi-Tenn. 

And finally, the name behind Nashville is set to be permanently memorialized in the Pennsylvania town where he died during the Revolutionary War.