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Higher gasoline costs raise US producer prices 07/16/2014 12:54pm • JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rising gasoline costs pushed up the prices U.S. companies receive for their goods and services in June, but overall inflation remains tame.The Labor Department said Wednesday that the producer price index, which measures the cost of goods and services Man uses 'blowtorch' to kill spider, sets house on fire 07/16/2014 12:44pm • SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle fire officials say a man trying to kill a spider caused a $60,000 fire using "a self-made blowtorch." Fire department spokesman Kyle Moore says the man used a can of spray paint and a lighter in an attempt to torch the spider, setting the wall and ceiling of a laundry roo Stocks rise...Factory output edges higher...Home builders feel more confident 07/16/2014 11:41am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are rising in early trading on Wall Street on second-quarter earnings reports and deal news. Time Warner soared 17 percent after Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox disclosed it made a bid for the media giant last month that was rejected. Apple and IBM rose after the fo Bill could limit student rentals at Univ. of Md. 07/16/2014 09:18am • COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- A bill under consideration in Prince George's County could restrict the number of single-family homes available in College Park as rentals for University of Maryland students.The bill, sponsored by county councilman Eric Olson, would allow College Park and other neighborhoo Silver Line Playbook: What commuters need to know 07/15/2014 04:30pm • WASHINGTON -- After years of waiting and months of delays, the first phase of the Silver Line is now open on Saturday, July 26, and that means it's time for riders to figure out which stops are most convenient and whether the new stations are worth using. This part of the Silver Line runs betwee Rental Report: Moving Day 07/15/2014 12:20pm • Editor’s Note: This biweekly sponsored column is written by Rick Gersten, founder and CEO of Urban Igloo, a rental real estate firm that matches up renters with their ideal apartments, condos or houses. Please submit any questions in the comments section or via email. If you ar Citigroup to pay $7B in subprime mortgages probe 07/15/2014 08:28am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citigroup has agreed to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into its handling of risky subprime mortgages, admitting to a pattern of deception that Attorney General Eric Holder said "shattered lives" and contributed to the worst financial Woman charged with staging husband's 2011 suicide 07/12/2014 05:31pm • AVON LAKE, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio woman who called 911 to report that her husband committed suicide by suffocating himself has been charged with his 2011 murder.A three-year investigation into the death of 55-year-old Michael Gabel concluded that he didn't commit suicide and that his wife, Jeane Harri Town hasn't been able to enforce immigration rule 07/10/2014 07:10pm • JOSH FUNK Associated Press FREMONT, Neb. (AP) -- A Nebraska city that bans renting homes to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally is having trouble enforcing part of its ordinance three months after it went into effect.The lack of an agreement between the city of Fremont and the federal government Thai soldiers hit the beach in cleanup campaign 07/09/2014 01:15pm • THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- Soldiers in full combat uniforms, some armed, were deployed by Thailand's military junta to one of the country's most crowded beaches Wednesday to clear away food stalls, massage huts and other illegal vending operations as part of a campaign to cle Woman can break lease at suspected killer's home 07/08/2014 07:29pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A woman who discovered her rental home was the likely site of several slayings by a suspected serial killer is moving out early after appealing to St. Louis public housing officials when her landlord wouldn't budge.KMOV-TV (bit.ly/1mtN29H) reported Tuesday that Catrina McGhaw rente Ex-Girl Scouts CEO gets 3 months for embezzlement 07/08/2014 03:40am • HANOVER, Va. (AP) -- A former Girl Scouts executive in Virginia will serve a three-month sentence after pleading guilty to embezzling nearly $23,000 from the organization.The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1qEFZg5) that 62-year-old Linda Carne of Crozier was sentenced Monday. A Hanov 5 things to know as the Tour de France hits London 07/07/2014 04:46pm • JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- It may be as French as camembert, but the Tour de France is coming to London. Almost 200 speeding cyclists are set to race past the city's greatest landmarks, from the Tower of London to the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace.The world's greatest Hornets look into altercation involving Hairston 07/07/2014 12:40am • DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- The Charlotte Hornets say they are looking into an altercation involving rookie P.J. Hairston and a person his agent described as an area high school player during a pickup basketball game at the Durham YMCA.The Hornets issued a statement Sunday night saying they're aware of the Only road onto NC island reopening after Arthur 07/06/2014 10:52am • EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's popular beach towns began returning to the business of recreation Saturday, after Arthur lashed the state's coast with forceful winds and heavy rain and then churned northward without leaving a trail of significant dam