All Stories from March 8, 2013 (Change date)
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McDonald’s sales fall 1.5 percent in FebruaryMar 08, 2013 6:36 am - $PHOTOCREDIT_ON$Associated Press$PHOTOCREDIT_OFF$ Oak Brook-based McDonald’s says a monthly sales figure dipped again as it struggled with intensifying competition and c...
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Osbourne confirms seizure, tweets hospital photoMar 08, 2013 6:28 am - LOS ANGELES — Kelly Osbourne says she had a seizure and doctors are trying to figure out why. The 28-year-old TV personality posted a photo on Twitter late Thursday of a...
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Bieber scuffles with photographers in LondonMar 08, 2013 6:27 am - LONDON — Justin Bieber’s week just got worse. Following a brief hospital stay after fainting backstage, the 19-year-old pop star’s preparation for a final concert in Lon...
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Markets buoyant ahead of US payrolls figuresMar 08, 2013 6:14 am - LONDON — The buoyant mood in financial markets showed few signs of abating Friday as investors appeared confident ahead of U.S. monthly jobs figures, a key measure of st...
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Jobs growth dents unemployment rateMar 08, 2013 6:01 am - The American job market isn’t just growing. It’s accelerating. Employers added 236,000 jobs in February and drove down the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent, its lowest l...
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Urlacher aside, Bears do have free agent needsMar 08, 2013 6:00 am - Although unrestricted free agents cannot be signed until 3 p.m. (Chicago time) next Tuesday, teams were allowed to begin wooing those players at 11 p.m. Friday. That tra...
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United Airlines passenger revenue up sharplyMar 08, 2013 6:00 am - United Airlines said a key measure of revenue rose as much as 7.5 percent in February, after a weak showing a year earlier. United reported late Thursday that passenger ...
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U.S. household wealth regains pre-recession peakMar 08, 2013 5:56 am - WASHINGTON — It took 5½ years. Surging stock prices and steady home-price increases have finally allowed Americans to regain the $16 trillion in wealth they lost to the ...
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Backlash grows to allowing knives, clubs on planesMar 08, 2013 5:51 am - WASHINGTON — Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration’s ...
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Apple seeks to revive patent claims against MotorolaMar 08, 2013 5:40 am - Apple Inc. asked a U.S. appeals court today to reinstate patent-infringement claims it filed against Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit over touch-screen technology us...