Business Stories from January 15, 2016 (Change date)
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Duke, opponents reach agreement on coal-gasification plantJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Four consumer and environmental groups agreed Friday to stop fighting a Duke Energy coal-gasification plant and join the utility's settlement with ot...
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US Treasury Secretary demands action on Puerto Rico's crisisJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew urged Congress on Friday to pass legislation by March to help ease Puerto Rico's economic crisis before it...
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US business stockpiles and sales fall in NovemberJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. businesses reduced their stockpiles in November, as sales also slipped. The decline in inventories among manufacturers and merchant wholesalers co...
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Inspired by reality, 'Division' takes on interactive terrorJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - At the beginning of "Tom Clancy's The Division," players portraying top-secret operatives are dropped from a helicopter into a rendition of New York C...
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Bird flu found at Indiana turkey farm not same as 2015 virusJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A bird flu virus that's a different strain than the one that ravaged turkey and chicken farms in the Midwest last summer has been found at a southern...
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Report: Texas lottery officials pursued fantasy sports gameJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Records show that for months, the Texas Lottery Commission aggressively pursued efforts to get the Texas lottery involved in the multibillion-dollar fantas...
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Salt mining on hold at NY site where 17 workers were rescuedJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - LANSING, N.Y. (AP) - Mining operations remain on hold at a central New York salt mine more than a week after 17 workers were rescued from an elevator stuck 900 feet unde...
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1 man brain dead, 5 others hospitalized in French drug trialJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - One man was brain dead and three others faced possible permanent brain damage after volunteering to take part in a drug trial for a painkiller based on a na...
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German court allows most Etihad-Air Berlin codeshare flightsJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - A German appeals court has ruled that Etihad Airways can continue most of its disputed code-share flights with Air Berlin for the rest of the winter schedu...
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Hawaiian, Delta top latest on-time ratings for US airlinesJan 15, 2016 6:00 am - Here are the government's rankings of the leading airlines and their on-time performance for November. The federal government counts a flight as on time if it arrives wi...