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Big recall of gel fuel for firepots
![<span style="font-size: small;">WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a half-million bottles and jugs of gel fuel used in outdoor ceramic patio decorations known as firepots are being recalled.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/252465780-22141723.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a half-million bottles and jugs of gel fuel used in outdoor ceramic patio decorations known as firepots are being recalled.</span>")
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a half-million bottles and jugs of gel fuel used in outdoor ceramic patio decorations known as firepots are being recalled.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the pourable gel fuel can ignite unexpectedly and...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Washington, DC
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Car Clinic
10am-11am, Sunday www.carclinicnetwork.com It's hard to believe that a successful businessman's first intelligible phrase was "Hot car, Momma," but it gets easier when you know the man in question is Bobby Likis. A two-year-old Bobby uttered these words...Tags: Ceremonies, Newspaper and Magazine, Automotive Equipment, Apple iPhone, YouTube
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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...
Tags: Republican Party, George W. Bush, High Blood Pressure, Nikki Haley, Executive Branch
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IPOs on the rise as stocks zoom
As the stock market reaches new highs, companies are trying to get in on the action by raising money through initial public offerings of their shares. So far this year, U.S. companies — and their owners — have tapped $16.1 billion through...Tags: Loans, Private Equity, Gays and Lesbians, Realty, Real Estate Buyers
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Gilway: Post-session Citizens is best ever
Hurricane season doesn't officially start until next month, but Citizens Property Insurance Corp. already has weathered a series of political and public-relations storms. Still shy of his first anniversary at the helm of Citizens Property Insurance Corp....Tags: Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Insurance, Executive Branch, Natural Disasters, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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Another payday loan debate on the horizon
Get ready for another debate on whether payday loan stores should return to Pennsylvania. State Sen. Pat Browne of Allentown said Friday he intends to introduce legislation in the next few weeks that would "redefine the debate" over access to short-...Tags: Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Money and Monetary Policy, Loans, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Media Industry
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What's in millennials' wallets? Fewer credit cards
Ringed by the posh shops of Beverly Center, Tim Ratliff said no — he didn't have a credit card. He didn't need one. "I just hear so many horror stories about people being in debt," said Ratliff, 21, who studies psychology at Ohio State University....
Tags: Port of Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities, Credit and Debt, The Ohio State University, Education
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Missing Boca attorney had ties with companies facing FTC lawsuit
Missing Boca Raton attorney Timothy McCabe once had ties to what federal authorities have described as a web of South Florida businesses that financially preyed on people desperate to avoid foreclosure, the Sun Sentinel has found. McCabe got some of his...
Tags: Laws, Financial and Business Services, Prosecution, Loans, Trials
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Mich. customers oppose fees to refuse power meters
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A small but outspoken group of residential customers vows to continue battling Michigan's largest utility company over the freedom to opt out of having "smart" meters installed outside their homes. State regulators' days-...
Tags: Entertainment, Consumers Energy Company, Radio, Civil and Public Service, Electronics
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New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft
Reuters* Microsoft set to unveil new Xbox Tuesday * Renews contest with Sony, Nintendo for $65 bln game market * Xbox key to Microsoft's broader push into consumers' lives By Malathi Nayak and Bill Rigby SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE, May 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft...Tags: Xbox 360, Sony Corp., Consumer Goods Industries, Gaming, Computer Hardware
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Short sales routinely show up in credit reports as foreclosures
WASHINGTON — Are large numbers of homeowners who have negotiated short sales with lenders at risk because of a startling omission in the American credit system? Do their credit reports and scores indicate that they were foreclosed upon, rather...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mortgages, Freddie Mac, Services and Shopping
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EU finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil
Reuters* EU bans refillable oil jugs, bowls from tables from Jan. 1 * Commission says move will protect consumers, boost hygiene * Critics say idea proves EU bureaucrats are out of touch By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS, May 18 (Reuters) - Critics ridiculed...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, International Organizations, Germany, Italy, European Debt Crisis
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