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Delta Air Lines is offering thousands of passengers stranded in Atlanta by a rare snowstorm credits for future travel as an airport task force studies how to avoid future weather woes.

Alcoa Engineered Products will shutdown its Kawneer Co. plant in Jonesboro by the end of March, eliminating nearly 250 jobs.

Georgia lost 89,000 jobs in 2001 the first net loss in 10 years - the state Department of Labor said Thursday.

Farmers who cited losses from natural disasters or weather-related problems can apply for federal aid - but the deadline is Friday.

In a brief flurry of legal papers, a law firm representing shareholders of Willamette Industries Incorporated today filed and then withdrew a temporary restraining order request seeking to block a possible deal to buy a Georgia-Pacific Corporation divisio

Federated Department Stores says it will sell or shut down its Fingerhut online retailing unit, after enduring millions of dollars in losses.

Georgia Power Co., the state's No. 1 electric utility, hopes to get into the natural gas business by offering itself as a regulated alternative to the state's unregulated gas marketers.

Michigan's 5 percent average unemployment rate last year was its highest in six years, state officials said Wednesday.

The parent of American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, posted a record $798 million loss in the fourth quarter and Continental Airlines reported it lost $149 million in the same period as the airline industry was pummeled by the recession and f

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a
wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, will realign its aircraft completions work over the next three to six months, reducing its
aircraft completions centers from six to five.