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Service has designated driver pick you up -- and your car 06/12/2014 02:05pm • GAITHERSBURG, Md. - A night of drinking can end up in disaster for anyone who's had too many but doesn't want to leave their car. But a new program in the area will get a driver for those in need. The BeMyDD program is available in 31 cities across the country and is gaining popularity in the D. Stocks flat...Tyson wins Hillshire bidding war...NY court to hear GM lawsuits 06/09/2014 03:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are drifting between slight gains and losses in afternoon trading on Wall Street. The market has been on a steady climb for three weeks running, pulling the S&P 500 up 4 percent in a month. On Friday, the S&P 500 index notched its latest record high, its eighth in 10 trading Uber launches public lobbying effort to keep operating in Va. 06/06/2014 04:19pm • WASHINGTON - A day after being told to park its cars, Uber urged its riders to contact Virginia state officials in support of the mobile-based car service. In an email to users, Uber urges riders to tweet, email or call Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Attorney General Mark Herring or the Department of Motor Stocks rise...May job gains...Hertz accounting errors...Colorado regulating ridesharing companies 06/06/2014 11:30am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are moving higher this morning on Wall Street, after the government reported another month of solid job gains in May. The Dow and the S&P 500 are both in record territory, with the blue-chip index adding about 70 points in the first hour of trading and the S&P adding 7. The N Uber, Lyft become regulated in Colorado 06/06/2014 11:30am • DENVER (AP) -- Leading a push to legitimize Internet companies that connect riders to drivers with a few taps on a cellphone app, Colorado has become the first state whose legislature passed a law regulating companies like UberX and Lyft.Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the bill on Thursday."Consumer p Va. orders Uber, Lyft to stop operating in state 06/05/2014 04:27pm • WASHINGTON - The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says that ride services Lyft and Uber are violating state law and must stop operating immediately. The DMV sent cease and desist orders to both companies Thursday. The letters state that the department has levied penalties against both comp Kia hamster actor charged with disability fraud 06/05/2014 07:20am • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man who played a dancing hamster in Kia car commercials and was a backup dancer for Madonna has been charged with California disability fraud.The California Department of Insurance says 27-year-old Leroy Barnes of Los Angeles collected $51,000 in workers compensation benefits i Former Uber driver charged with assaulting rider 06/04/2014 10:30pm • TERRY COLLINS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A man who drove for the ridesharing service Uber in San Francisco has been charged with assaulting a customer, prosecutors said Wednesday.Daveea Whitmire of San Francisco was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor battery of a transit passenger, Distric Business Highlights 06/04/2014 07:30pm • The Associated Press ___Will that be a 6-bedroom suite or just a couch?NEW YORK (AP) -- Private elevators, personal shopping assistants, six-bedroom suites with their own postal codes. Even helipads. This is what the super-rich have come to expect from hotels.For others, vacation now means renting Stocks edge higher...Fed Beige Book show economy improving...Data discrepancies in health coverage 06/04/2014 03:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are edging higher on Wall Street this afternoon. Trading has been muted following discouraging reports on hiring at U.S. companies and the trade deficit. Investors also appear to be holding back ahead of Friday's jobs report and the European Central Bank's decision on interes 41 charged in insurance scam involving dead deer 06/01/2014 09:50am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.Ronald Galati Sr. is accused of running a $5 million scam out of his auto body shop.District Attorney Seth Williams said Wed Americans and their cars: A love affair on fumes? 06/01/2014 04:02am • ADAM GELLER AP National Writer The couple in the convertible sail down a pristine freeway, the pavement theirs alone. At the wheel, he smiles in suit and tie, while she leans closer, every blonde hair in place, her face a portrait of mobile bliss."To whirl along with all the joy your car has to offe Ky. man auctioning rare comic book collection 05/31/2014 06:54pm • DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The first glimpses of iconic heroes Superman, Batman and Flash are part of a rare comic book collection a Kentucky man is auctioning off to the highest bidders.Paducah insurance executive John C. Wise decided it was time to sell the collection he' Report: Car, truck crashes cost whopping $871B 05/30/2014 10:10am • JOAN LOWY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economic and societal harm from motor vehicle crashes amounted to a whopping $871 billion in a single year, according to a study released Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.The study examined the economic toll of car and t Parks Looking For Corporate Sponsors 05/30/2014 08:15am • Montgomery Parks will seek Planning Board approval next week to start a corporate sponsorship program it thinks can eventually bring about $1 million a year. You won’t see corporate sponsors take over naming rights for Cabin John Regional or Caroline Freeland Parks, but the department is hopin