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Live Wire's closing leaves live music void
Live Wire Music Hall closed for good on Saturday night.The West River Street music club hosted some spectacular shows in its nearly five-year existence.Brit folk sensation Laura Marling played before a...
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Savannah gas prices edge upwardAverage retail gasoline prices in Savannah have risen 3.7 cents a gallon in the past week to $3.38 a gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas...
View ArticleThey're back: J. C. Penney adds sales
NEW YORK — J.C. Penney is bringing back sales.The struggling department store chain this week will begin adding back some of the hundreds of sales it ditched last year in hopes of luring shoppers who...
View ArticleCrucial, long-overdue BlackBerry makeover arrives
TORONTO — The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of...
View ArticlePartners to export LNG from Elba
For more than a decade, imports of liquefied natural gas have come into the LNG terminal at Elba Island in the Savannah River to be transformed back into gas and transported along a pipeline to the...
View ArticleAcquisition to be 'rocket fuel' for growth for iTech IT firm
George Powers is no tech visionary.Unlike so many 20th-century business leaders, though, he did recognize technology’s value when it stared him in the face.Powers’ American Ports Services was among the...
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Adver-teasers: Super Bowl viewers get peek at ads
Super Bowl advertisers are learning the art of the tease.Click here to launch a slideshow and watch commercials from this year's Super Bowl.Supermodel Kate Upton appears in an online Mercedes-Benz...
View ArticleFord shares down as 4Q profit eclipsed by Europe
DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford is posting record profits in North America, but it’s not enough to quell unease about the company’s prospects elsewhere.Ford’s shares dropped nearly 5 percent Tuesday after the...
View ArticleU.S. consumers less optimistic after tax increase
WASHINGTON — An increase in Social Security taxes is leaving Americans with less take-home pay — and a more negative outlook for the U.S. economy.The Conference Board said Tuesday that its index of...
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Experts to answer Quickbooks questionsJust a reminder that Hancock Askew will have four Quickbook experts available this morning from 9-11 a.m. at the Savannah Morning News to answer small business...
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Savannah FastPitch changes to benefit entrepreneurs
Savannah’s FastPitch organizers are throwing a change-up for the 2013 event.Organizers of what has quickly become an annual entrepreneurial summit have altered the event’s format. The fifth Savannah...
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Elba Island owner buys natural gas producer
HOUSTON — Kinder Morgan Energy Partners will acquire the natural gas company Copano Energy LLC for about $3.2 billion in stock, giving the energy transportation and storage company more access to oil...
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SCAD to host annual awards ceremonyThe Savannah College of Art and Design will honor student achievement in the advertising arts and related disciplines at its seventh annual SCADDY Awards ceremony at...
View ArticleFacebook 4Q results surpass expectations
NEW YORK — Facebook delivered fourth-quarter results above Wall Street’s expectations on Wednesday and sought to show it has finally transformed into a “mobile company.”Its stock price fluctuated...
View ArticleInvestors give cool reception to new BlackBerrys
NEW YORK — The long-awaited debut of new BlackBerry smartphones flopped on Wall Street.The stock of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. started to sink Wednesday afternoon soon after company CEO...
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Savannah foreclosure rates dropForeclosure rates in Savannah decreased for the month of November over the same period last year, according to newly released data from CoreLogic, a financial data...
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GPA sets new gate record at Garden City Terminal
Jan. 22 was a red-letter day for the folks who work in gate operations at Georgia Port’s Garden City Terminal. On that busy Tuesday, they broke a gate record with 8,956 containers moved — and an hourly...
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Morning News sales representative named to President's Club
Savannah Morning News/savannahnow.com sales representative Victor Richter has been named a recipient of the Morris Publishing Group President’s Club Award. The President’s Club Award recognizes the top...
View ArticleSeven former First National Bank officials plead not guility in bank fraud case
The former president and six officers of First National Bank on Thursday pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges in a 35-count indictment that accuse them of scheming to defraud the bank and...
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