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Associated Press Fire boat response crews spray water on the burning remnants of BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. The gargantuan legal bill for the 2010 catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is coming due for BP as a federal trial opens on Monday to determine the company's liability for the blowout of its Macondo well.
Gulf oil spill trial delayed for settlement talks
NEW ORLEANS — A judge has delayed the federal trial over the nation’s worst offshore oil disaster by a week, saying Sunday that BP PLC was making some progress in settlement talks with a committee ...
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Texas’ Permian Basin experiencing oil boon
DALLAS — The Permian Basin of West Texas is experiencing an oil boom, leading some of the region’s top oilmen to predict that Texas oil production will double within five to seven years. Oil dri...
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Associated Press Young people gather in Madrid to discuss sky-high levels of youth unemployment. Spain's young people are becoming a "Lost Generation," with no work and seemingly with no real prospects of getting work.
Spain’s ‘Lost Generation’ threatens social fabric
MADRID — Daniel Lorente has worked construction, flipped burgers at McDonald’s, been a camp counselor, telemarketing representative and doorman. But Lorente’s part-time jobs never lasted more th...
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Geithner
G-20 linking hike to bigger ‘firewall’ fund
MEXICO CITY — The G-20 nations are conditioning additional money for the International Monetary Fund on the European Union first increasing its financial stabilization funds to ease concerns about ...
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Associated Press The entrance to one of the parking lots at a Chrysler plant in Kokomo, Ind will be busier now that Chrysler has pledged a $1.3 billion investment and 1,000 workers to return.
Town mending, bailout still divides
KOKOMO, Ind. — Back in this town’s darkest days, Jeff Shrock, a third-generation autoworker, would cruise down the streets where he grew up, past the foreclosed homes and four giant Chrysler factor...
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Pepsi’s new soda amps up competition
NEW YORK — Pepsi is hoping to win back soda drinkers with a compromise. Some people don’t like the calories in regular soda, but loathe the taste of zero-calorie diet drinks. So the nation’s No....
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Cyber-security researcher finds flaw in smartphones
WASHINGTON — Just as U.S. companies are coming to grips with threats to their computer networks emanating from cyber-spies based in China, a noted expert is highlighting what he says is an even mor...
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Lead plant environmental engineer — Need a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, chemical engineering or other related tech field, plus five years’ experience. Job order: KY0446888 Ind...
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Coming soon
In another year or two, you’ll be able to take a photo of your check with your smartphone to deposit it into your local bank account. At least, that’s the rough estimation from local bankers. ...
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Associated Press Ben Fisk hammers a tap and collection tube into the trunk of a maple tree in Newbury, N.H. An unusually mild winter across much of the Northeast has raised concerns about whether the maple syrup crop is in danger.
Mild winter concerns some maple syrup producers
TEMPLE, N.H. — A mild winter across the Northeast is injecting extra uncertainty into maple syrup season, but many producers say they’ll just go with the flow, whenever it starts. Temperatures h...
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