General Motors Acceptance Corporation

Aloha airlines files for bankruptcy

2008-03-21 00:00:00

Aloha Airgroup Inc., the closely held Hawaiian airline company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying competition from Mesa Air Group Inc. cut its sales. This is the second bankruptcy in three years for Aloha, the second-largest Hawaii-...

Executive Profile: Martin Nesbitt, the first friend

2013-01-21 00:00:00

Chicago businessman Martin Nesbitt will sit on the dais in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday as his best friend is inaugurated president of the United States. The two men — successful African-American leaders who share a record of high...

Timeline: Deadly Mass Killings

2012-12-14 19:34:00

A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, including 20 children, on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others: The...

Betty Fairbourn

2012-05-29 17:24:00

We are quite sure Shakespeare was thinking of our Mother when he said, "Though she is but little, she is fierce." Tiny in stature, she was mighty in life and left to all who were blessed to know and love her, a mighty legacy. Betty Fairbourn of...

Confident Chrysler leasing cars again

2009-09-20 00:00:00

If you're looking for an indication — however modest — that the economy is turning around, here's one: Last week, Chrysler announced that it is back in the leasing business. In August 2008, Chrysler dropped leasing entirely. "And it hurt us...

Used cars online: Going, going, gone

2003-12-01 00:00:00

Tim Walters used to attend six used-car auctions a month to buy vehicles for his employer, the Fagan Chevrolet Cadillac dealership in Janesville, Wis. These days, Walters, the dealer's used-car sales manager, skips most of those events. He still is...

On June 18, 1990 Pough gunned down nine people and wounded four others in a General Motors Acceptance Corporation office in Jacksonville before killing himself. It's the worst single-day massacre by a lone gunman in Florida history.

2013-05-02 00:00:00