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Restaurants

Restaurants fear tough drunk-driving law will be buzzkill for light drinkers

Apple CEO Tim Cook is pictured at the All Things Digital conference in Los Angeles in this May 29, 2012 handout photo.
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Apple

Apple CEO wants lower taxes in exchange for job creation

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personal-finance

Banks to porn stars: Your money's not welcome

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Former General Mills CEO, and inventor of the fish stick, E Robert Kinney, has passed away, according to the company.
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food

The man who gave America fish sticks is dead at 96

Workers unload materials at Ariel Castro's home in Cleveland, Ohio, May 10, 2013. Castro is accused of kidnapping and raping three women during a deca...
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Cleveland kidnappings

What is Ariel Castro home's fate? For now, legal limbo   

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markets

Bloomberg LP at center of storm over snooping on Wall Street

No mom, no free meal. Hooters waitress takes lunch orders from diners at a restaurant in Troy, Mich., Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007.
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Retail

Hooters offers free meal for moms on Mother's Day ... and bring the kids

Pictured is the exterior of a McDonald's Angus Third Pounder hamburger in carton purchased at a Chicago area McDonald's fast food restaurant Friday, M...
AP
food

Where's the beef? McDonald's dropping Angus burgers from US menu

DULUTH, GA - JULY 9: (FILE PHOTO) A Merck & Co. sign sits in front of a Georgia facility July 9, 2002 in Duluth, Georgia. An Angleton, Texas jury fou...
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discrimination

Merck sued for $100 million in sexual bias case

In this Thursday, April 4, 2013, photo, Michael Goodwin, Senior Partner for HTC, displays an HTC First cell phone wit the new Facebook interface at Fa...
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technology

AT&T cuts 'Facebook phone' price to 99 cents

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stocks

Will Barnes & Noble be unloading Nook? Wall Street bets yes

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beef

Bad news at the grill as beef prices hit all-time high

labor

Union rights dealt a blow again by appeals court 

The National Labor Relations Board violated the law when it required U.S. businesses to put notices in their workplaces and on their...

mortgage-banking

NY AG to sue BofA, Wells Fargo over mortgage settlement

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday said he plans to sue Bank of America Corp and Wells Fargo and Co for violating the...

wages

Republicans: For some workers comp time more valuable than cash 

It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of...

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2005 file picture, a humpback whale leaps out of the water in the channel off the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Haw...
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environment

Hawaii fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: Pulitzer Prize winner and "To Kill A Mockingbird" author Harper Lee smiles before receiving the 2007 Presidential Medal of F...
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Business

Author Harper Lee sues for To Kill a Mockingbird rights 

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FILE - This file publicity image provided by 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation shows Harrison Ford, as Han Solo, Carrie Fisher, as Princess Leia Organ...
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Business

May the Fourth be with you: Perks on Star Wars Day

lancome

Lawsuit claims Lancôme's 24-hour makeup fails Sabbath test

What do you do when you think your 24-hour makeup isn’t lasting the 24 hours? File a class-action lawsuit against the manufacturer...

Buyers say Thoroughbred horse prices depend largely on the discretionary wealth and income of the affluent and wealthy. Here, horses walk in the paddo...
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Business

Thoroughbred horse prices race ahead