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'); document.write(''); document.write('LAS VEGAS (AP) — The nation\'s largest funeral services company has resolved antitrust issues with the Nevada state attorney general and plans to proceed with the purchase of a large Las Vegas-area mortuary business, officials said Wednesday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Alcohol abuse cost New Mexico 993 lives and nearly $2.5 billion in 2006 in lost productivity, health care expenses and costs associated with property loss from crashes and fires, a new report shows.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — Strong overseas sales and cost-cutting kept a decline in Tiffany & Co.\'s third-quarter profit to a bare minimum, causing the luxury jeweler to raise its full-year profit outlook heading into the crucial holiday season.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Otter Tail Power Co.\'s North Dakota customers will be paying slightly lower rates under a settlement of an electric rate case.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — American International Group Inc. has agreed to settle all legal disputes with its former chairman Maurice \"Hank\" Greenberg, the company said late Wednesday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state of North Carolina has hired a California company to create an archive system designed to manage and retrieve state employee e-mails more easily.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville Predators ended their naming rights deal Wednesday with the Sommet Group of Tennessee for the team\'s arena and are suing the company for failing to pay.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Democratic Senate hopeful Stephen Pagliuca has spent $5.4 million of his own money in his bid for the seat once held by the late Edward Kennedy.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SAN DIEGO (AP) — La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. said Wednesday its shareholders did not support a proposal to dissolve the company, and it will consider other options.
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