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No written proposals have been submitted and any new bids or other options for the Swedish unit will be reviewed by Detroit-based GM's board at a meeting next week, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified...

So begins a recent gathering of Debtors Anonymous, a support group for those addicted to overspending. Every week, in the fellowship room of a Sacramento church, Kevin and about 25 other self-described overspenders and compulsive debtors seek help from others...

Even with declining list prices, there still isn’t a whole lot of house to be had listed below $500,000 in our south coast cities. This isn’t a shock to Laguna Beach’s market, but the homes priced below $500,000 in San...

The euro jumped above $1.50 Wednesday, as up­beat US economic data and comments from the US Federal Re­serve that the dollar had seen an “orderly” decline sparked more investor risk trades. The weakening of the US unit sent the price of...

The retailer will stock the same number of cut trees as last year and a smaller percentage of factory-made trees, Menear said. Lowe's will carry about the same number of cut trees as last year and 10% fewer fakes, Chief...

Naples Originals will hold its final 2009 gift certificate sale starting Friday, Dec...The gift certificates will be available at its Web site, www.naplesoriginals.com. Naples Originals are neighborhood restaurants, locally owned and operated, serving a spectrum of culinary style, service...

The hordes of bargain-seekers crowding into stores. �I would not do that,� Clark said. Millions of other Americans, though, will heed the call of bargains on Black Friday. At some places, Black Friday is starting so early it�s becoming Black...

Ferocious styling meets conventional crossover In biology it's called "convergent evolution" -- unrelated organisms separately evolve the same trait. Birds and bats both have wings, for example, but they evolved from very different lineages.

Entrepreneur Bob Simpson bought the shuttered facility in February with the hopes of reopening it as a environmentally friendly toilet paper plant. He planned to spend $400 million rehabbing the factory and rehiring 215 workers who lost their jobs when...

Consumers spent more shopping online in the first 22 days of November — the windup period for the holiday frenzy — than they did during the same period last year, according to Internet researcher comScore. But even though they are...