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Hundreds of fishermen from Lake Charles to Moss Point, Miss., were supposed to get checks from BP on Wednesday but didn’t. (more)

It’s approaching 80 days and each day the oil cleanup falls farther behind. (more)

Should business owners pay for others to sit on their couch? The current unemployment insurance policy not only serves its primary goal of providing a safety net between jobs, it also allows some people to sit on the couch while they refuse work. (more)

CINCINNATI—The Old Spice man on a horse is back, and this time he’s on a motorcycle — still shirtless and showing plenty of bravado and humor. (more)

BP Plc (BP: 27.72, 0.67, 2.48%) has approached four major banks in an effort to raise money either through a private placement of debt and lines of credit, looking to raise as much as $10 billion sometime this week to help pay tens of billions of dollars in liabilities stemming from its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, FOX Business Network has learned. (more)

When students walk through the doors of Southgate Anderson High School, the words “Titan Pride” jump out at them from a red mural on the wall. So do advertisements for restaurants such as Wendy’s, Sonic and Ponderosa.There’s a spot on the wall for Eastern Michigan University and plugs for businesses such as Valvoline and Oakwood Hospital. (more)

Three Atlanta-based companies are among the 100 most valuable global brands, according to a study by Kantar Retail and BrandZ. (more)

Gulf Coast states are gearing up to follow shrimpers and hotel owners in seeking payouts from BP PLC for lost revenue and other damages stemming from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder, at the behest of his boss, President Obama, is looking to file criminal charges over the BP oil rig explosion. Naturally, we all wait to see if he’ll name the Secretary of the Interior as co-defendant. Americans were shocked to learn of the Interior’s cozy relationship with the industry it’s supposed to regulate. (more)

Ryan Murphy, one of the creators and producers of the smash hit American musical comedy show, was forced to issue the special guidelines for the series’ young actors after the breach of the on-set rules. (more)

The Arizona senate race between incumbent John McCain and former U.S. congressman JD Hayworth is heating up over a 2007 infomercial in which Hayworth hawks government money as loans that don’t need to be paid back. (more)

Washington (CNN) — Senate Democrats Thursday seized on the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as a reason to pass climate-change and energy legislation, but internal policy differences will not be easy to overcome and may also leave many disheartened. (more)

When I attached myself to New Orleans in 2003, I didn’t know I was signing up for the role of Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill. Falling crime rates in the city were replaced by Hurricane Katrina. And just as the city turned the corner on Hurricane Katrina, things got bad again—BP oil now lingers in the Gulf of Mexico, one of our principal sources of entertainment and revenue. (more)

Being a slave to social networking will take on a whole new meaning when David Perez lets his Twitter followers dictate his every movement for an entire week. (more)

The B in BP may no longer mean British, but tell that to New Orleans. The city is using a $5m cheque from the company to launch what might be seen as only a slightly tongue-in-cheek anti-British campaign, aimed at luring tourists who might be discouraged by the approaching oil spill. (more)

Frito-Lay Inc. is urging consumers not to use a fake “free Doritos” coupon that launched last year on the Internet and is now in rampant circulation via e-mail. (more)

It took just a few minutes and a few words about “small people” to undercut any brownie points that BP won by agreeing to put $20 billion into escrow to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (more)

The aftermath of the BP oil rig disaster has been front-and-center in the last month. Invariably, when discussing the response to the disaster, the following question is asked, “Why has this president and his administration dragged their collective feet in their response to this?” It’s not a question with an easy answer. One could speculate about vested interests, but that would only serve to fuel conspiracy theories and not help solve the actual problems. One could mention the glacial pace of bureaucracies in a general sense but, again, that line of reasoning doesn’t solve problems. (more)

If the recently leaked BP e-mails about taking shortcuts to save a few million dollars are in context, the oil giant has just leaped to the top of the slime pile of greed. That the company will have to be broken up is a given. (more)

WASHINGTON — The White House and BP tentatively agreed on Wednesday that the oil giant would create a $20 billion fund to pay claims for the worst oil spill in American history. The fund will be independently run by Kenneth Feinberg, the mediator who oversaw the 9/11 victims compensation fund, according to two people familiar with the deliberations. (more)