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Committees, super PACs disclose June fundraising 07/21/2014 03:42pm • PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The political parties, their campaign committees and super PACs faced a Sunday deadline to disclose how much donors gave and how much operatives spent in June. Highlights from the filings:___MISSISSIPPI GOOD FOR FUNDRAISINGThe anti-tax Club for Grow DNC raises almost $9M in June, cuts debt to $3M 07/21/2014 09:20am • PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic National Committee narrowly outraised its Republican rival last month and cut its debt to just $3 million, down from a onetime high of $23 million, according to federal financial forms due Sunday.The DNC raised almost $9 million in Ju Puerto Rico on shaky ground with creditors 07/21/2014 09:03am • DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico's government has managed its first balanced budget in more than a decade. Sales tax revenues are up and the publicly owned power company has won breathing room to pay its debts.The U.S. territory has managed to buy some time to s Atlantic City doomed by glut of casinos in region 07/21/2014 07:29am • WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The rapid disintegration of Atlantic City's casino market might be an early indicator of what could happen in other parts of the country that have too many casinos and not enough gamblers.In the 36th year of casino gambling in New Jersey, whic Judge orders James Brown documents made public 07/21/2014 12:43am • JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A judge has ordered South Carolina's attorney general to turn over documents to a freelance journalist investigating the court fight over the estate of soul singer James Brown.Sue Summer wants to see the records, which include the diary of the Detroit seeing upgrades ahead of bankruptcy trial 07/20/2014 07:53pm • COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit neighborhoods are being relit, its vacant homes are being sold off or torn down, its public transportation is cleaner and more often on schedule and the city has renegotiated some burdensome union contracts.In the little more than a year since Prosecutors: Debt motive for 2012 Indy explosion 07/18/2014 06:41pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Prosecutors have filed court documents indicating that mounting gambling and credit card debt were the motive behind a deadly explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 2012.Monserrate Shirley, her then-boyfriend Mark Leonard and his brother, Bob Leonard, face cha In Ga. Sen., voters weigh experience vs. outsider 07/18/2014 03:00pm • CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) -- Former CEO David Perdue has hammered Rep. Jack Kingston as a business-as-usual politician the race for Georgia's open Senate seat, offering himself as an outsider with the business sense needed to end the frequent stalemates in Washington. Glance: Biggest corporate deals so far this year 07/18/2014 01:10pm • The Associated Press Abbvie Inc.'s deal to combine with Shire PLC would be the largest made so far this year, excluding assumed debt. Here are the top five:Source: Dealogic data. Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or re China, Russia leaders seek South American inroads 07/18/2014 12:07am • JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- It's enough to make an aging U.S. Cold Warrior shudder.During overlapping visits to Latin America, the leaders of China and Russia have been welcomed with open arms by governments that are among the most hostile to Washington, including Cuba, Puerto Rico power company's finances spark concern 07/17/2014 07:38pm • DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- U.S. investors on Thursday pressed Puerto Rico government officials about the financial health of the island's power company amid fears it might soon seek to restructure millions of dollars in debt.The questions came after a nearly two-hour Kingston, Perdue offer few details on budget fixes 07/17/2014 06:40pm • BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- Neither Rep. Jack Kingston nor businessman David Perdue has detailed a clear course for changing the nation's fiscal situation, instead broadly railing against government spending and debt in their campaign for Georgia's open U.S. Senate seat.That makes i Burlington Stores and Mattel are big market movers 07/17/2014 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEBurlington Stores Inc. (BURL), up $2.39 to $31.34The discount retailer increased its second-quarter same-store sales guidance and launched a debt refinancing tra Correction: Editorial-Rdp story 07/17/2014 04:01pm • The Associated Press In a July 16 national editorial roundup, The Associated Press erroneously reported which newspaper had authored an editorial about Ukraine, as well as the date it was published. That editorial was published July 10 by The Washington Post, not the New Britain Herald.A corrected Fiat denies merger talks with VW 07/17/2014 03:11pm • COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) -- Italian automaker Fiat and its main shareholder denied on Thursday a media report that the company is in merger talks with rival Volkswagen. The German carmaker also said it had no plans for mergers or acquisitions.Shares in Fiat briefly rose 5 percent,