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In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them if it can.
The Dow Jones industrial average jumped back above 10,000 on hope that a resolution was near for Greece's debt crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of South Carolina homeowners and tenants could weatherproof their homes and upgrade heating and air-conditioning units and pay for the improvements with energy savings, under a bill that was approved by a Senate panel Tuesday.
Congrats Columbia, you're doing the best during the worst of times. When it comes to big cities in South Carolina, Columbia continued to post the lowest jobless rate at the end of last year.
Want to donate to the Haiti earthquake relief effort? It's as simple as having a pizza, going grocery shopping or even doing your banking.
Despite a surge of home sales in the last few months of the year, 2009 proved to be another sour year for real estate in South Carolina.
RealNetworks Inc. and MTV Networks said Tuesday that they plan to spin off Rhapsody America LLC, their digital music service joint venture, into an independent company.
President Barack Obama says the country must develop cleaner energy technologies while at the same time still relying upon traditional power sources like nuclear and coal.
Mary Beth Henry hated school.