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Hampton car-title lender to pay $16,000 to settle claim
Cash-N-A-Flash charged annual rates exceeding 300 percent, significantly greater than the 12 percent annual rate that unlicensed lenders are allowed to charge.
Tight job market is bane of visiting foreign students
Several thousand foreign students, recruited by businesses and sponsors, come to the region every summer to fill seasonal jobs. The recession may have put them in competition with out-of-work Americans for the lower-paying work.
National Business News
- Stocks resume rally as European debt worries ease
- Panel examining recession's causes meets in Vegas
- HP's interim chief says Oracle alliance 'strained'
- Hermine remnants cause massive flooding in Texas
- Consumers cut back on credit card use once again
- AP Exclusive: Back to work after salmonella case
- Obama firm: Don't extend tax breaks for wealthiest
- Fed survey sees slower growth in East and Midwest
- Hack attack hits home for AP writer
- Google search accelerates with 'instant' results
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Local Business News
- Hampton car-title lender to pay $16,000 to settle claim
- Company charged with supplying faulty parts for Navy subs
- Smithfield reports record first-quarter gains
- Music video celebrates Heartland Corridor rail project
- Norfolk Southern completes corridor upgrade
- Tight job market is bane of visiting foreign students
- Economist: Port needs to be more open with APM deal
- Cupcakes on a roll in Norfolk
- Do you know why you aren't working today? Test yourself.
- Labor Day is Monday. Will you work or play?
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- BB&T Corporation
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- CACI International
- Capital One
- Commonwealth Bkshrs
- Dominion Resources
- Ford
- Fulton Financial
- Hampton Rds Bkshr
- International Paper
- MHI Hospitality
- MonrchFncl
- Old Point Financial
- Portfolio Recovery
- SunTrust Banks
- SuperValu
- TowneBank
- United Parcel Serve.
- Verizon Comm.
- Wellpoint
- Wells Fargo
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ECONOMIC STRESSAssociated Press index of financial strain for all U.S. counties
UNEMPLOYMENT RATESU.S. joblessness figures by county, state and sector
- THE ROAD BACK
A new job doesn't always mean recovery - ECONOMIC SURVIVAL 101
Tips for getting through the financial meltdown - TAX CALCULATOR
See how you compare in terms of income bracket and how much tax your state collected -
BAILOUT TRACKER
Who's getting how much from the government
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CHINESE DRYWALL
A timeline of drywall health and safety investigations
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| Sep 15, 2010 | Creative Messaging | Town Point Club |
| Sep 16, 2010 | Electrical Contractors Association of Tidewater | Spiro's Restaurant |
| Sep 28, 2010 | 8th annual Women's Conference | NSU at the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center |
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