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Associated Press Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice President Mike Sinnett poses with a model of newly designed 787's battery during a Friday news conference in Tokyo. Boeing executives said commercial flights of its grounded 787 jets will resume "within weeks, not months" with a third of safety tests already completed. They had not pinpointed the causes of the two battery problems that resulted in the global grounding of the technologically advanced Dreamliner planes.
Boeing aims to finish 787 testing
Boeing unveiled its fix for its troublesome 787 battery on Friday and is aiming to wrap up testing within two weeks. The company hopes to get quick approval from the Federal Aviation Administrat...
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Associated Press Dietz Werland works on an assembly line Feb. 28 at the Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind. A strong increase in auto output boosted U.S. factory production last month.
Factory output increases with auto production
WASHINGTON — A strong increase in auto output boosted U.S. factory production last month, the latest sign that manufacturing is helping drive economic growth after lagging for much of 2012. Fact...
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Photo contributed by the Prairie State Energy Campus A conveyor moves coal mined on-site to the Prairie State Energy Campus in Marissa, Ill. Paducah Power System began receiving all of its power from Prairie State in January.
Hope and a Prairie State
Had Ray McLennan and the rest of the Paducah Power System board owned a crystal ball in 2007, he still would have pursued the Prairie State Energy Campus investment, he said. In December 2009, P...
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SAC affiliate pays SEC $600 million to settle charges
Two affiliates of SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund run by billionaire Steven Cohen, will pay more than $614 million in what federal regulators are calling the largest insider trading settlement...
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Netflix’s customers in the US get new Facebook-sharing tool
SAN FRANCISCO  — A long-awaited coming attraction has finally arrived for Netflix’s U.S. subscribers. They will now be able to automatically see what their Facebook friends have been watching on th...
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Group seeks closer oversight of student loan firms
WASHINGTON — The government’s consumer finance watchdog wants stricter oversight of companies that collect and log student loan payments. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed Thursd...
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Teen’s petition removes questionable ingredient from PepsiCo’s Gatorade
SAN FRANCISCO — When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who...
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Associated Press Blank U.S. Treasury checks appear on an idle press in 2008 at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies. The Internal Revenue Service says it has $917 million in unclaimed tax refunds from 2009, and time is running out to claim them.
Millions in unclaimed tax refunds to expire April 15
WASHINGTON — If you didn’t bother filing a federal tax return for 2009, it might be a good time to rethink your tax strategy. The Internal Revenue Service says it has $917 million in unclaimed t...
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Samsung phone to face stronger competition
NEW YORK — Samsung Electronics is taking to the Big Apple to reveal its next big challenge to Apple Inc.: a successor to its top-selling Galaxy S III smartphone. The Korean company has rented Ne...
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Possible overhaul-induced price hikes
The health care overhaul starts expanding coverage to nearly 30 million uninsured people next year. The law also begins tacking on some expenses and coverage requirements to insurance policies. ...
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