Month: June 2010

ATLANTA (AP) _ The Coca-Cola Co. will pay $715 million to Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. for the rights to distribute Dr Pepper and Canada Dry in the U.S. after Coke acquires its largest bottler. [Read More…]

ROBERT, La. (AP) _ Federal officials responding to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say no dead, oiled birds have been found in Texas. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Nancy Brown [Read More…]

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The government’s point man on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says the catastrophe will persist “well into the fall.” Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” [Read More…]

ROBERT, La. (AP) _ Federal authorities responding to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill say dead birds with oil on them have been reported for the first time in Texas. A wildlife report issued [Read More…]

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) _ An official for BP PLC says the oil giant has paid 18,000 claims along the Gulf Coast totaling more than $48 million. Darryl Willis is the BP vice president overseeing the [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ More than 250 incidents of confirmed abuse and mistreatment reportedly have occurred in the last two years at residential treatment centers that care for some of the most troubled or disabled children [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ The Checker cab once known as Lee Harvey Oswald’s getaway car has been sold at auction to an Illinois museum. In a statement issued Sunday, the Canadian auction house RM Auctions said [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ A union says it has “suspended” a tentative agreement with American Airlines for a new contract covering