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GM boosted June sales with discounts to dealers 08/01/2014 10:46am • TOM KRISHER Associated Press Auto Writer As General Motors tackles a safety crisis, a look its numbers from June show just how intent the company is on keeping new-car sales on the rise during a record spate of safety recalls.The Detroit automaker has recalled nearly 30 million cars and trucks this GM boosted June sales with discounts to dealers 08/01/2014 10:46am • TOM KRISHER Associated Press Auto Writer As General Motors tackles a safety crisis, a look its numbers from June show just how intent the company is on keeping new-car sales on the rise during a record spate of safety recalls.The Detroit automaker has recalled nearly 30 million cars and trucks this GM boosted June sales with discounts to dealers 08/01/2014 10:46am • TOM KRISHER Associated Press Auto Writer As General Motors tackles a safety crisis, a look its numbers from June show just how intent the company is on keeping new-car sales on the rise during a record spate of safety recalls.The Detroit automaker has recalled nearly 30 million cars and trucks this Not in my backyard: US sending dirty coal abroad 08/01/2014 10:10am • DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) -- Coal from Appalachia rumbles into this port city, 150 railroad cars at a time, bound for the belly of the massive cargo ship Prime Lily. The ship soon sets sail for South America, its 80,000 tons of coal destined for power plants and factorie For sale: A nearly nonexistent insurance agency 08/01/2014 08:40am • JEFF HORWITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the country's largest overseers of troubled home loans, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc., is quietly trying to sell a $100 million insurance agency that doesn't appear to exist.Harwood Service Co. has no website, no independent offices and onl Grammy winner Ne-Yo: Ex-manager owes me $8M 08/01/2014 07:42am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Grammy winner Ne-Yo wants $8 million from his ex-manager.The Daily News reports (http://nydn.us/1lgmBAH ) that the R&B singer-songwriter has sued one-time manager and confidant Kevin Foster in Manhattan federal court.Foster started handling Ne-Yo's finances in 2005.The lawsuit says Elvis' guitar donor says he is rightful owner 08/01/2014 07:26am • REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A man who donated to a South Dakota museum a slightly damaged acoustic guitar played by Elvis Presley that is at the center of a custody battle insisted Thursday he had the right to give it away because he owned it.The instrument's fate i Rolex passed among jurors in ex-Va. gov trial 07/31/2014 06:10pm • ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The requests for lavish gifts were frequent. Jonnie Williams -- the star witness in a corruption trial against the former Virginia governor and his wife -- was being asked for everything from a joy ride in his Ferrari to stock in the company he le Loan aid offered to western Md. flood victims 07/31/2014 06:10pm • HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- The U.S. Small Business Administration is making low-interest loans available to people whose homes or businesses were damaged by flooding in two western Maryland counties in June.Gov. Martin O'Malley says the funds will help ensure that communities in Washington and Allegany $100 million for firm without offices, 1 agent? 07/31/2014 06:00pm • JEFF HORWITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Companies overseeing millions of mortgage loans appear to be skirting new federal regulations and legal settlements intended to stop them profiteering at the expense of troubled homeowners.They are selling or have sold nearly nonexistent insurance age First plea agreements signed in lottery scam case 07/31/2014 03:10pm • DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The first plea agreements have been reached in a wide-ranging federal investigation into a Jamaican lottery scam targeting mostly elderly victims in the United States, including one woman from North Dakota who agreed to empty her savings account and First plea agreements signed in lottery scam case 07/31/2014 03:10pm • DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The first plea agreements have been reached in a wide-ranging federal investigation into a Jamaican lottery scam targeting mostly elderly victims in the United States, including one woman from North Dakota who agreed to empty her savings account and First plea agreements signed in lottery scam case 07/31/2014 03:10pm • DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The first plea agreements have been reached in a wide-ranging federal investigation into a Jamaican lottery scam targeting mostly elderly victims in the United States, including one woman from North Dakota who agreed to empty her savings account and Eurozone inflation down again but ECB seen on hold 07/31/2014 11:28am • JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- The inflation rate in the 18-nation eurozone dropped again in July, official data showed Thursday, in a worrying sign that adds pressure on the European Central Bank to beef up its efforts to spur the economy.Extremely low inflation is a concern becaus Stocks fall...Jobless claims rise...Mortgage rates edge lower 07/31/2014 11:20am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are falling in early trading on Wall Street as investors react to some disappointing earnings reports. L-3 Communications Holdings plunged 14 percent, the most in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, after the company said it's investigating accounting irregularities at is Aerosp