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Shuttered Hastings ethanol plant closing permanent
A Hastings ethanol plant that announced in February that it would temporarily shut down will not reopen. The Ag Processing Inc. cooperative said Friday that it is permanently shutting down the 55-million-gallon-a-year plant, citing the plant's age and high utility costs associated with running it. Officials had cited a slowdown ...
Silicon Valley-area hub becomes factory town
In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each. Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels ...
Grand opening held for Model A museum in Michigan
A museum in southwestern Michigan that celebrates Ford Motor Co.'s Model A has held a grand opening ceremony. The 12,000-square-foot Model A Ford Museum is fashioned after a Ford dealership from 1928. It sits on the Gilmore Car Museum campus in Hickory Corners, about 115 miles west of Detroit. Marketing ...
CarMax founder, family hope for Alzheimer's cure
Richard L. Sharp thrived on being a visionary. "All of my life, I've been the curious one. It's a good thing to have," Sharp said recently, adding that he always looked for new or different ways to do something. For instance, Sharp, who led Circuit City through dramatic growth in ...
Hagerstown man has car devoted to Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton once said "Sometimes you just have to toot your own horn. Otherwise, nobody will know you're a-comin'." For Paul T. Woodal Jr. of Hagerstown, his horn is attached to a Barbie-pink 2008 Volkswagen Beetle adorned with photos and sayings from one of country music's most beloved artists, Dolly ...
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___ A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus NEW YORK (AP) — It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger ...
Gold prices sink for seventh day, near April low
Gold prices fell for a seventh day in a row on Friday, drawn down by a stronger U.S. dollar and better economic news. Gold for June delivery dropped 1.6 percent, losing $22.20 to settle at $1,364.70 an ounce. The precious metal is nearing the recent low of $1,352 it reached ...
Gold prices sink for seventh day, near April low
Gold prices fell for a seventh day in a row on Friday, drawn down by a stronger U.S. dollar and better economic news. Gold for June delivery dropped 1.6 percent, losing $22.20 to settle at $1,364.70 an ounce. The precious metal is nearing the recent low of $1,352 it reached ...
Oil gains to near $96 as investors eye US economy
The price of oil rose to near $96 a barrel on Friday ahead of the release of Conference Board's index of leading indicators for the U.S. economy. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for June delivery was up 45 cents to $95.61 a barrel in electronic trading on the ...
Oil rises above $96 on encouraging economic news
The price of oil rose to $96 a barrel on Friday on hopes that a steady recovery in the U.S. economy could boost fuel use. Benchmark oil for June delivery rose 86 cents to close at $96.02 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. But even with three straight ...
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