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The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Thursday, March 29, 2007:

BOSTON (AP) - More than two months after first disclosing that hackers accessed customers' financial data from its computers, discount retailer (nyse: TJX - news - people ) has revealed that information from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards was stolen over an 18-month period. In a reg...

Rep. Reagan wants to give insurers more time to pay condo, business claims

TALLAHASSEE -- When lawmakers approved sweeping insurance changes this year, they promised Floridians would no longer wait months or years to collect on insurance claims.

Now, the House is moving to undo a key part of that guarantee.

Under a bill that moved forward Wednesday, insurance companies would ...

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It's tough to imagine Suze Orman as a waitress. But that's where she started, serving diner food to the likes of Apple founder Steve Wozniak at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley.

It was a time that Orman, now a 55-year-old bestselling financial author and TV star, described as "the bes...

Bill would ease rules on insurers with claims from condos and businesses.

TALLAHASSEE - When lawmakers approved sweeping insurance reforms early this year, they promised Floridians would no longer wait months or years to collect on insurance claims.

Now, the House is moving to undo a key part of that guarantee.

Under a bill that moved forward Wednesday, insurance companies wou...

POSTCARD PRETTY The "Mountainview" house and the swimming pool at Passages, a rehab center in Malibu, Calif.

IN the weeks before Tara Conner handed over her crown as Miss USA, she talked to television reporters about her stay at a treatment center for drug addiction and alcoholism. At the insistence of Donald Trump , an owner ...