The announcement by a major U.S. coal company that it plans to lay off 1,100 coal mine workers has set off a chain reaction of finger pointing in West Virginia.

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Keeping your money for working capital rather than paying it out in taxes to Uncle Sam will give you an edge in the current economic climate.

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Gov. Chris Christie is looking outside his administration for solutions to the state’s budget woes.

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FairPoint Communications and two unions representing 1,700 workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont continued to negotiate Friday as the expiration of the existing contract looms this weekend.

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SKC Group this month launched farmbrain — its first app for the U.S., and revamped grainschain, its app for Africa. The apps aim to help farmers scale their operations.

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The government has reached its annual goal of giving small businesses 23 percent of contracts for the first time in eight years.

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Alpha Natural Resources said Thursday it expects to lay off 1,100 workers at 11 southern West Virginia surface coal mines by mid-October, citing dismal markets and federal regulation.

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An Alaska Native regional corporation and six Native Village corporations have signed an agreement with a Shell Oil subsidiary that aims to share the profits from offshore drilling off Alaska’s northern coast.

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The Canadian owner of a company that won nearly $1 billion in contracts to provide steel for the construction of the World Trade Center’s tallest building and an adjacent transit center has been arrested on fraud charges.

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A federal mediator is on her way to New York to try to resolve a labor faceoff at the Metropolitan Opera.

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