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NEW YORK – After a tumultuous trading day, U.S. stocks closed Friday having barely changed from the morning open after a jury’s verdict against Merck & Co. (MRK), a Dow component, sent the drugmaker’s shares down 7.7 percent. That company’s plunge offset gains in blue-chips like International Business Machines Corp. …

ALBANY, Ga. – The only woman ever executed in Georgia’s electric chair is being granted a posthumous pardon, 60 years after the black maid was put to death for killing a white man she claimed held her in slavery and threatened her life. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles …

WASHINGTON – The number of Americans filing initial claims (search) for jobless aid dipped 1,000 last week, due in part to fewer claims from autoworkers and other manufacturers, the government said on Thursday. First-time claims for state unemployment benefits fell to 312,000 in the week ended July 30, the Labor …