Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:52 PM EST
Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number of facilities shutting down in recent months.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:47 AM EST
The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is obligated to pay retirement benefits to six priests who are confirmed pedophiles, church officials argued in a bankruptcy court filing seeking permission to keep making the payments.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:53 AM EST
Valero Energy says it is permanently closing its Delaware oil refinery, where 550 workers will lose their jobs.
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Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:34 PM EST
A state panel has approved more than $361 million in spending reductions and reversions recommended by Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration to help meet Maryland's budget shortfall.
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Wed Nov 4, 2009 5:57 PM EST
Federal officials began the process of choosing creditor representatives in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's Chapter 11 bankruptcy by meeting with diocesan officials behind closed doors Wednesday.
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Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:59 PM EDT
A subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma received court approval Wednesday to buy Magna Entertainment Corp.'s Lone Star Park horse track in Texas, albeit for $20 million more than the tribe first thought it would spend.
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:51 PM EDT
Luxury automaker Fisker Automotive is buying a shuttered General Motors assembly plant in Delaware to produce plug-in hybrid electric cars, officials said Tuesday.
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Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
Fisker Automotive, a California-based startup manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, plans to build plug-in electric cars at a former General Motors assembly plant in Delaware, people with knowledge of the situation said Friday.
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Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:08 PM EDT
The judge presiding over Washington Mutual Inc.'s bankruptcy protection case declined to issue an immediate ruling Thursday on the company's request that JPMorgan Chase & Co. be ordered to turn over some $4 billion in disputed assets.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:13 PM EDT
A bankruptcy judge has granted first-day motions in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's bankruptcy.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:36 AM EDT
The millions in cost cuts made by DuPont drove profits higher in the third quarter. Now all the chemical maker needs is for sales to rebound.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:33 AM EDT
DuPont says cost-cutting helped offset lower volumes and contributed to a surprisingly strong increase in third-quarter earnings.
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Wed Oct 7, 2009 3:14 PM EDT
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday rejected a request by auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. to approve bonuses of up to $8.1 million for its 12 top officers.
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Tue Oct 6, 2009 9:02 AM EDT
Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Castle announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Joe Biden left to become vice president.
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Mon Oct 5, 2009 11:09 AM EDT
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has declined to rule immediately in a dispute over document production in the Chapter 11 case of Freedom Communications Holdings Inc.
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Fri Oct 2, 2009 2:31 PM EDT
Auto parts supplier Visteon Inc. has backed off a proposal to pay up to $80 million in bonuses to top executives and other employees, but a revised bonus plan it has filed in bankruptcy court is still generating opposition.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:43 PM EDT
Having been welcomed home by his father, Vice President Joe Biden, Delaware's attorney general traded hugs and handshakes Wednesday with other members of his Army National Guard unit after a yearlong deployment in Iraq.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:20 PM EDT
Auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. is asking a judge for more time as it works to emerge from bankruptcy protection.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:10 PM EDT
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday denied a motion from the parent company of Magna Entertainment Corp., the largest horse track owner in the United States, to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Magna creditors.
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Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:49 PM EDT
Regional department store chain Boscov's won court approval Thursday to bring its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to a successful conclusion.
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Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:43 PM EDT
Nortel Networks Inc. won approval Wednesday from judges in Delaware and Ontario for the $900 million sale of a Nortel unit that makes communications systems for businesses.
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Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:27 PM EDT
A bankruptcy judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by creditors of horse-track owner Magna Entertainment Corp.
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Tue Sep 8, 2009 5:38 PM EDT
Sports betting in Delaware officially got under way Thursday after surviving a contentious legal battle with professional sports leagues and the NCAA.
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Tue Sep 8, 2009 4:06 PM EDT
Pipe corrosion that went undetected for years led to an explosion and fire that rocked a Sunoco oil refinery in Claymont in May, authorities said Tuesday.
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Thu Sep 3, 2009 12:01 PM EDT
A Delaware optometrist who fled to Central America in a motor home with his three young daughters has pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping and bank fraud charges.
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