GE, Lumber Liquidator announce consumer credit card agreement. GE Money, the consumer lending unit of General Electric Co., and Lumber Liquidators, a hardwood flooring retailer, announced Monday a multiyear consumer financing agreement.

Tax cut delay moving through Ohio House but faces slowdown, possible rejection in Senate. The Ohio House is moving quickly toward approving a delay in planned income tax reductions, but the Senate plans to slow it down, study alternatives and possibly propose something else to fill a budget hole.

Aging former POWs rally to tell their stories; museums gain histories, worry many may be lost. Museums are seeing an increase in donations and oral histories from the swell of former U.S. prisoners of war eager to leave their legacies. But museum officials still worry that too many POWs approaching their late 80s and 90s will go to their graves without publicly telling their stories.

Memorial tributes pop up wherever there's a Michael Jackson fan _ funeral home, soup kitchen. Tilesha McClurkin wanted to join other Michael Jackson fans to celebrate his life, but she knew she wouldn't be able to go to whatever official memorial celebration might be held.

Memorial tributes spring up nearly anywhere there's a Michael Jackson fan. Michael Jackson permeated popular culture so thoroughly that people and towns nationwide with no connection to him are holding services in his honor.

No-trash talk: Landfills raise fees, lay off workers as consumers repair, reuse in recession. Thrift-driven Americans are fixing up, making do and reusing so much to cope with the recession that the drop in throwaways means less fill for landfills.