Hertz Chairman and CEO Mark Frissora has stepped down from his posts for personal reasons.

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More than 1,000 people flown in to the small Colorado resort town of Crested Butte for the filming of Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light commercial were having problems leaving the party Sunday evening.

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It’s not easy to prevent the Supreme Court from deciding an issue once it’s agreed to hear a case.

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The Kroger Co. is expected to hire as many as 1,200 people in southwest Ohio as part of a push to add 20,000 employees nationwide.

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Leaders of two unions representing more than 1,700 FairPoint workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont say they’re going after the CEO, board members and corporate owners for refusing to negotiate.

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The biggest beneficiary of the record $1.4 billion fine levied against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for a gas line explosion that killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes in suburban San Francisco is the state of California, which stands to gain $950 million to spend any way it wants.

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Nevada Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick says it’s too early to say whether a huge package of tax breaks and incentives needed to land Tesla Motors Inc.’s lithium battery factory will have smooth sailing at a special legislative session next week.

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Lava from one of the world’s most active volcanos is creeping slowly but steadily through cracks in the earth toward a rural subdivision on Hawaii’s Big Island.

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A Utah judge is expected to issue a ruling Friday in a long-running court battle between two ski titans that will determine whether the lifts stand idle this season at one of the state’s largest ski resorts.

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The operator of the long-delayed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline said Thursday it will ask South Dakota’s utility regulators to recertify the portion of the project that runs through the state before the end of the month.

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