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JPMorgan CEO to get treatment for throat cancer 07/02/2014 05:42am • NEW YORK (AP) -- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, a feisty leader who steered the banking company through the perils of the Great Recession, is battling throat cancer.The condition is considered to be curable, according to a memo to JPMorgan Chase & Co. employees and shareholders that Dimon released UK payday lender used fake lawyers to chase debts 06/25/2014 09:50am • LONDON (AP) -- Regulators have ordered Britain's biggest payday lender to pay 2.6 million pounds ($4.4 million) in compensation to tens of thousands of people for unfair debt collection practices.Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said the company, Wonga, sent letters from non-existent law firms Vasyl Lomachenko gets 2nd title shot vs Russell 06/19/2014 09:04pm • GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Vasyl Lomachenko had the audacity to believe he could win a world title in his second professional fight after a glittering amateur career.Instead, Ukraine's two-time Olympic gold medalist discovered just how much he still didn't know about boxing.Lo 10 Things to Know for Friday 06/12/2014 10:48pm • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:1. WHAT'S BEHIND COLLAPSE OF IRAQ'S MILITARYDespite billions spent by the U.S. on training, the nation's army and police remain riven by sectarian discontents, corruption and Arkansas pastor is new Southern Baptist president 06/10/2014 06:30pm • JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) -- An Arkansas megachurch pastor was elected Tuesday to lead the country's Southern Baptists as the conservative denomination tries to turn around declining membership, church attendance and baptisms and faces increasing conflict with mainstream cultu Patrick Hope: Why You Should Vote for Me 06/05/2014 02:00pm • Last week, we asked the candidates for the Democratic nomination in the 8th District congressional race to write a sub-750 word essay describing why Arlington residents should vote for them in the June 10 primary. Here is Del. Patrick Hope’s unedited response: Arlington is my home. When my wif Website raising awareness on cigarette trafficking 05/29/2014 11:28am • MICHAEL FELBERBAUM AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Reynolds American Inc. is inviting lawmakers, law enforcement officials and others to take a trip along "the New Tobacco Road," where organized criminals are garnering huge profits for smuggling cigarettes and selling them on the black marke The other side of the lens: 5Qs about Paparazzi 05/28/2014 04:52pm • SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kristen Bell's No Kids Policy seeks to reduce the market for paparazzi photography of celebrity children by leveraging celebrity itself: She assembled a roster of dozens of stars, from Jennifer Aniston to Jennifer Lawrence, who agreed not to gr The CEO got a huge raise. You didn't. Here's why. 05/28/2014 06:28am • JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pay for globe-trotting CEOs has soared to new heights, even as most workers remain grounded by paychecks that are barely budging.While pay for the typical CEO of a company in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index surged 8.8 percent last year to $10.5 African-American cowboy crooner Herb Jeffries dies 05/27/2014 11:46am • JESSICA HERNDON AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 100.His death was confi Hunter-Reay gets $2.4 million for winning Indy 500 05/26/2014 10:40pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Ryan Hunter-Reay's narrow Indianapolis 500 win brought him a $2.49 million payday.The overall purse was $14.23 million. The winnings were announced Monday night.Hunter-Reay edged Helio Castroneves by 0.060 seconds Sunday in the second-closest margin of victory in the history of Here are 5 things to know about the Preakness 05/17/2014 01:16pm • DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) -- If trainer Art Sherman coughed, no one would care. When his horse coughs, that's news.Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome coughed after training Thursday, leaving open the possibility the horse wouldn't be in top shape for Saturday's Preakness.Sh Bowyer wins Showdown, Josh Wise wins fan vote 05/16/2014 09:09pm • JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Clint Bowyer, a usual Chase for the Sprint Cup championship participant, had to earn a spot into the $1 million Sprint All-Star Race.It wasn't a surprise when he won Friday night's Sprint Showdown to earn an automatic transfer into the main eve Drivers run for $1 million payday at All-Star race 05/16/2014 08:06pm • JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- It's dash-for-cash, nothing on the line for NASCAR's top drivers but a big payday.The Sprint All-Star race begs the question: What would a driver do for a cool $1 million?"If you can reach out and grab somebody you will get pretty aggressive fo Nets want to keep Pierce, Garnett, rest of core 05/15/2014 07:51pm • BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Jason Kidd's shirt read "GOLF," which he said was more random wardrobe choice than upcoming itinerary.He has plenty of time for that hobby with his first season as an NBA coach over, but it won't be all fun for the Brooklyn Nets this o