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1 hr ago | Charlotte.com

Weather might delay digital TV test

WASHINGTON Federal regulators are monitoring plans for an important test that could disrupt television service for some N.C. viewers in the path of Tropical Storm Hanna.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Weather, TV, Electronics, Wilmington, NC, Business News, Federal Communications Commission

Wed Sep 03, 2008

GreenvilleOnline.com

McCormick mine site proposed for Superfund list

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are considering placing an abandoned gold mine in McCormick, S.C., on the Superfund list of contaminated sites because its highly acidic water containing dissolved metals has ...

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, McCormick, SC, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

NY Daily News

2 brokers accused of $1B subprime fraud

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors and regulators on Wednesday accused two former Wall Street brokers of defrauding customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of securities tied to ...

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Home, Mortgage, Securities and Exchange Commission, New York

Tue Sep 02, 2008

Detroit Free Press

Feds close probe into Toyota pickups

WASHINGTON - Federal safety regulators have closed an investigation into unintended acceleration in Toyota Tacoma pickup trucks, saying their probe couldn't find a cause behind more than 400 complaints.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Toyota, Toyota Tacoma

Mon Sep 01, 2008

Bizjournals

Amid the financial turmoil, Washington banks and credit unions take...

The run on IndyMac Bank in California rattled some consumers in the Puget Sound region, Evergreen Bank President and CEO Gerry Hatler says.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking

Sun Aug 31, 2008

Los Angeles Times

SEC proposes international accounting plan

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators today proposed a plan to allow public companies to begin using international accounting standards for reporting financial results in two years, and may require them to do so ...

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate Governance

Fri Aug 29, 2008

KOB-TV

2 airliners nearly collide over Caribbean

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking

Wed Aug 27, 2008

The Daily Times

ECONOMY: US thrifts' lost $5.4B in second quarter

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators say U.S. thrifts lost $5.4 billion in the second quarter and set aside a record amount to cover losses from bad mortgages and other loans.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Mortgage, Home

Los Angeles Times

More bank failures may be on the way, FDIC warns

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators Tuesday boosted to $8.9 billion the estimated cost of IndyMac Bank's failure and prepared the public for more collapses, reporting that the number of troubled U.S. banks shot up ...

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Woonsocket, RI

Tue Aug 26, 2008

Journal News

Merrill Lynch settlement worth up to $12B

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators said yesterday that investors who bought risky auction-rate securities from Merrill Lynch & Co.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services, Financial Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Marketing

Sun Aug 24, 2008

Los Angeles Times

FDA clears Amgen drug for blood-clotting disorder

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators today approved a biotech drug from Amgen Inc. to treat a rare blood-clotting disorder.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Biotech, Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Amgen, Healthcare Industry

Sat Aug 23, 2008

Great Falls Tribune

Government to allow irradiation of produce

WASHINGTON - Federal food safety regulators are poised to allow producers to irradiate spinach and iceberg lettuce to protect consumers from disease.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Life, Food, Vegetables, Food Science, Food and Drug Administration

Fri Aug 22, 2008

Detroit Free Press

FDA investigates possible Vytorin link to cancer

WASHINGTON-- Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, US News, Food and Drug Administration, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicine, Cholesterol, Health

Charlotte.com

Merrill agrees to buy back up to $7B in bonds

WASHINGTON Federal regulators say Merrill Lynch & Co. will buy back up to $7 billion in auction-rate securities over its role in selling the risky bonds to retail investors.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission

Thu Aug 21, 2008

Los Angeles Times

FDA investigates possible Vytorin link to cancer

WASHINGTON -- Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Food and Drug Administration, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicine, Cholesterol, Health, Zocor, Simvastatin (generic), Medication

Marion Star

FAA to review very light jets

WASHINGTON - Federal aviation officials said Wednesday they are conducting an unusual 30-day review of the Eclipse 500 very light jets in response to reports of safety problems when the planes were certified in ...

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

Tue Aug 19, 2008

Charlotte.com

FDA warns General Electric over lax record keeping

WASHINGTON Federal regulators have warned General Electric Co. over lax quality control standards at a plant that makes computer software for medical imaging.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Computers, General Electric, Aerospace-Defense, Food and Drug Administration, Healthcare Law, Law

Mon Aug 18, 2008

Charlotte.com

FDA reports deaths with diabetes drug Byetta

WASHINGTON Federal regulators are working on a stronger label for a widely used diabetes drug marketed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Eli Lilly, Healthcare Industry, Amylin Pharmaceuticals

Sun Aug 17, 2008

GuruFocus.com

Washington Federal Inc. (WFSL): Arnold Schneider Sold out in WFSL

Banks Washington Federal Inc. is a non-diversified unitary savings and loan holding company.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Mon Aug 11, 2008

The Courier-Journal

Safety officials defend new rules on coal-mine seals

WASHINGTON -- Federal mine regulators are defending new rules on coal-mine seals, saying underground miners will be better protected than under the requirements of a 2006 mine safety law.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Explosion, US News, George Miller, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat

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