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Oil rises near $99 a barrel before Bernanke speaks
The price of oil rose Wednesday, before the conclusion of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting. Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 48 cents to $98.92 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 67 cents to close at $98.44 ...
News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT
3 more plead guilty in probe of Pilot Flying J NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three more employees of the truck stop chain owned by the Cleveland Browns' owner and Tennessee's governor pleaded guilty Tuesday in what authorities call a scheme to cheat trucking firms out of rebates. Regional sales manager ...
Texas Senate drops abortion ban after 20 weeks
The Republican-led Texas Senate voted late Tuesday night for tough new restrictions on abortion clinics and providers, but abandoned efforts to ban the procedure after the 20th week of pregnancy. While the U.S. House approved a similar ban after 20 weeks earlier in the day, the sponsor of the Texas ...
NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled
The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence ...
Chrysler agrees to recall of Jeeps at risk of fire
After initially defying federal regulators, Chrysler abruptly agreed Tuesday to recall some older-model Jeeps with fuel tanks that could rupture and cause fires in rear-end collisions. But the recall, which came in an 11th-hour deal between the automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, covers only 1.56 million of ...
Brazil protesters keep up pressure on government
About 50,000 protesters energetically returned to the streets of Brazil's biggest city Tuesday night, a demonstration of anger toward what they call a corrupt and inefficient government that has long ignored the demands of a growing middle class. The protests were well organized via social media and mostly peaceful, like ...
3 more plead guilty in probe of Pilot Flying J
Three more employees of the truck stop chain owned by the Cleveland Browns' owner and Tennessee's governor pleaded guilty Tuesday in what authorities call a scheme to cheat trucking firms out of rebates. Regional sales manager Kevin Clark pleaded guilty to mail fraud in federal court in Knoxville. Local media ...
Army Corps won't do overall study of coal exports
An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday that the agency doesn't plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United States. Environmentalists and elected officials in Washington, Oregon and Montana have called on the federal government to look at the cumulative ...
US spy chief: plot against Wall Street foiled
The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence ...
Union presents plan to save jobs at GE Erie plant
Union officials presented a plan Tuesday to keep 950 jobs at a General Electric Transportation plant in Erie, but the company cast doubt on the proposal. The Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/f76MQq ) reports that the leadership of Local 506 said the union can save $20 million a year in exchange for ...
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