Dallas investment group Highland Capital Management, which gave up on a proxy battle with Brentwood's American HomePatient last May, has raised its stake in the company from 1.7 million to nearly 2 million shares

Central Parking's annual 10-K report shows that number of facilities in operation dropped by 10 percent, but investors seem to agree with company's own relatively upbeat take on mixed bag of financial results; stock up 2.45 percent in early trading

CCA lands a temporary contract to imprison Colorado inmates in an Oklahoma facility

Elsewhere in the incarceration industry, local lawmakers in Charleston, S.C. vote to enter into $3.2 mil annual inmate health contract with unit of Brentwood-based America Service Group

And finally, this little memento mori from the urban-focused Enclave blog, whose author channels Marx to deconstruct 21st-century stadium seating trends: The Titans may or may not keep up their hot streak against Jags this weekend, but in the long run "we and our tinker-toy field are living on borrowed time" as new Dallas palace sets an unapproachable benchmark of conspicuous consumption by those who control the means of production (hint: it ain't the workers)