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  • Watch those gas pumps; prices expected to fall
    By SANDY SHORE 2010-09-03T15:46:52Z DENVER (AP) -- Gasoline prices have been falling for weeks, and they could go even lower as autumn's leaves begin to drop....
  • Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill
    By ALAN SAYRE 2010-09-03T14:44:16Z NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water....
  • Goldcorp agrees to buy Andean Resources for $3.42B
    By 2010-09-03T12:34:47Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Goldcorp Inc. said Friday that it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($3.42 billion) in a deal that would give it access to an Argentinian mining project said to contain a significant amount of gold and silver....
  • Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored
    By MICHAEL J. CRUMB 2010-09-03T12:34:42Z DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site....
  • Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan
    By 2010-09-03T12:29:08Z MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics....
  • Swedish bank Carnegie buys troubled competitor
    By MALIN RISING 2010-09-03T11:57:51Z STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish investment bank Carnegie AB Friday said it will buy competitor HQ Bank AB, which had its banking license revoked by the financial watchdog last week....
  • BP says cost of Gulf of Mexico spill hits $8B
    By 2010-09-03T11:02:49Z LONDON (AP) -- BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Miami airport evacuated when suspicious item found
    By ALAN DIAZ 2010-09-03T09:09:26Z MIAMI (AP) -- A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said....
  • China orders action to cool food prices
    By 2010-09-03T07:34:14Z BEIJING (AP) -- China has ordered local leaders to cool a surge in politically sensitive food prices by raising vegetable production amid rising tensions in poor countries over surging food costs....
  • Tractor upgrades reduce farm deaths from rollovers
    By RICK CALLAHAN 2010-09-03T07:16:38Z Dairy farmer Anthony Marco was compressing a long row of chopped hay beneath his tractor two weeks ago, preparing it as winter feed for his cows, when the 4-ton machine suddenly toppled over as he drove it along the pile's steep sides....
  • NZ tycoon unwraps packaging ambitions with US deal
    By RAY LILLEY 2010-09-03T05:50:24Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The reclusive New Zealand billionaire buying the U.S. maker of Hefty brand trash bags to create the world's second-biggest packaging business started out as a tow truck driver and bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy more than a decade ago to become his country's richest person....
  • Comfort Inn a hurricane hostel in NC
    By MIKE BAKER 2010-09-03T05:30:49Z BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- A two-story Comfort Inn has become a makeshift hurricane hostel on North Carolina's Outer Banks for those who want to stay close to their homes but know they need better shelter from the onslaught of Earl....