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Big mainstream grocers chase Hispanic shoppers

Several major chains are expanding their specialty offerings to capture business from Latinos, the country’s fastest-growing population and already almost one-sixth of the U.S. total in 2008. Other retailers are opening new stores that target Hispanic shoppers. Read More      8 comment(s) / read/add comments

For modest earners, relief repaying student loans

“It’s a way to borrow for college without going to the poor house,” says one student debt expert. But it's not for everyone. Read More      6 comment(s) / read/add comments

Facebook to offer new features to control privacy

For now the new features are available only to a limited number of users, but the company said it planned to provide them eventually to all 200 million people on the site. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Higher ethanol fuel blends may not be so efficient

As we celebrate our hard-earned Independence Day, let’s remember: Freedom is not free. For our opportunity to live under freedom and liberty, more than one million Americans made their final sacrifice. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Car Talk

Q. When my husband and I first got married (18 years ago), I noticed that when his car was low on gas, he would remove the gas cap, saying it would make the gas last longer until he could get to a station. I am a college-educated woman, and this seemed preposterous to me ... but then I noticed other people doing it. My husband has since stopped doing this, due to my nagging. But is there any truth to this, or is it just some urban legend? Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Car Show Calendar

Coastal Carolina Corvette Club will present the 16th annual Old Santee Canal Park Open Car, Bike & Truck Show sponsored by Elite Towing of Moncks Corner. The show will be 2-6 p.m. at Old Santee Canal Park in Moncks Corner. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Price, market forces drive benefits of current vehicle purchases

The decision to purchase a new truck, car, sport utility, crossover, minivan or whatever else is out there is a weighty one for just about anybody. Granted, rappers, athletes, rich executives and lottery winners probably don’t fret too much. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Catfish proposal runs risk of trade war

It looks like catfish, it tastes like catfish and it acts like catfish. But to American catfish farmers, the whiskered, bottom-feeding fish from Vietnam is something else — a cheap variety that is usurping the humble catfish's place on Americans' tables and threatening their livelihoods. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Facebook users differ on announcing layoff

It happens to you. You're called into your boss's office and told that your job no longer exists. You go home in a daze and sign onto Facebook. There it is — a prompt asking: "What's on your mind?" Do you tell your Facebook network that you've lost your job? Read More      9 comment(s) / read/add comments

Economic news: It's all lousy

WASHINGTON — Americans lucky enough to still have a job are noticing something unpleasant in their paychecks: They're making less money. Employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than expected, and the jobless rate hit a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Read More      11 comment(s) / read/add comments

Airport could be in line for 2nd Boeing assembly plant

With the state's unemployment rate at an all-time high and the ongoing evaporation of manufacturing jobs, the thought of an aircraft assembly line moving to North Charleston is encouraging. Economic development officials hope reports that Boeing is considering Charleston for an expansion of its 787 Dreamliner production turn out to be true. Read More      2 comment(s) / read/add comments

Business Briefs

A dour report on job losses in June sent stocks sharply lower Thursday. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

GM awaits judge's ruling on assets sale plan

NEW YORK — The judge in the General Motors Corp. bankruptcy case adjourned a three-day hearing without indicating when he will rule on the company's plan to sell its good assets to a new company. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Newsome primed for new job

For a few minutes between his late-arriving flight into Charleston and the first meeting of lawmakers who plan to oversee his agency, newly hired State Ports Authority chief executive Jim Newsome pushes aside his coffee and pauses to talk. Read More      0 comment(s) / read/add comments

Marshals seize Madoff's penthouse

Federal marshals took possession of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday in a move that forced his wife to move elsewhere. Proceeds from a sale of the property and its contents could be used to help reimburse those who lost billions of dollars investing with Madoff before he confessed to running a Ponzi scheme. Read More      1 comment(s) / read/add comments

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