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Dunlap settles SEC lawsuit
The former head of Sunbeam agrees to pay $500,000 and never again serve as a corporate officer. The former CFO strikes a similar deal.

Incentives bring in car buyers
Special financing deals help August sales surge. Those deals may have to remain to keep luring shoppers.

Pinellas weeklies get publisher
Dan Autrey has been named president and publisher of the weekly Beacon-Leader-Bee newspapers in mid-Pinellas County.

Business Today
CONSTRUCTION SPENDING FLAT: Spending on construction projects across the country was flat in July, more evidence of the struggling economic recovery. After declining for two months, the level of construction spending in July was unchanged at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $834.1-billion. But the reading was better than the 0.4 percent decline some analysts were forecasting.