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Downtown Macon’s upswing of the past five to 10 years is continuing as new businesses open and contractors rehab historic buildings.

A conditional use permit to open a bar/nightclub at 557 Cherry St. has been submitted to the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission.

A train carrying crude oil derailed Saturday in eastern Quebec, sparking several explosions and a blaze that destroyed the center of the town of Lac-Megantic and killed at least one person. An unspecified number of people were reported missing.

Asiana Airlines was relatively unknown in the United States before Saturday's crash landing at San Francisco International Airport. But South Korea's second-largest carrier has been growing steadily over the past 25 years and connects two of the world's biggest technology markets.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg took to Facebook to let friends and others know she, her family and colleagues were booked on the Asiana flight that crashed and burned upon landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday morning, but had switched to United to get frequent-flyer miles.

Asiana Airlines is South Korea's second-largest airline. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States, and joined the Star Alliance, which is anchored in the U.S. by United Airlines.

Two years after Georgia and Alabama passed laws designed to drive away people living in the country illegally, the states' agricultural areas are still heavily populated with foreign workers, many of whom don't have legal authorization to be here.

Surprisingly resilient job growth in the past three months has raised the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will start pulling back its massive bond-buying stimulus this fall, but the near-term employment outlook may not be as bright as the latest numbers look.

Morningstar Inc. says it discovered an illegal intrusion into its systems that may have compromised some of its clients' personal information, including email addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers.

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Stocks jumped 1 percent as the federal government reported the labor market was gaining strength, overshadowing fears of the Federal Reserve winding down its stimulus.

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A petition to the White House to allow Tesla Motors Inc. to sell its electric vehicles straight to consumers throughout the U.S. surpassed the 100,000-signature threshold it needed this week to prompt a response from the Obama administration.

For Corporate America, it's the season of low expectations.

The U.S. stock market is closing higher after a bumpy start, with investors encouraged by a big uptick in hiring.

Hiring has broken out to a new, higher level as employers added a better-than-expected 195,000 jobs in June and the prior two months were revised upward, a government said Friday in a firecracker of a report.

Shares of Dell are falling on reports that founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners don't plan on raising their $24.4 billion buyout offer for the company.

Moody's Investors Service on Friday placed its ratings for Britain's taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland and its parent holding company on review for downgrade, after the nation's Treasury appointed an adviser to asses a potential split of the bank.

The U.S. economy added 195,000 jobs in June, a healthy gain. And more jobs were added in April and May than earlier estimated. But the unemployment rate didn't change: It was 7.6 percent for the second straight month.