By TOM KRISHER and KEN THOMAS | Associated Press Writers
| 7:25PM
General Motors completed an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection on Friday with ambitions of making money and building cars people are eager to buy. Once the world's largest and most powerful automaker, new GM is now leaner, cleansed of massive debt and burdensome contracts that would have sunk it without federal loans.
By SARA LEPRO | AP Business Writer
| 5:55PM
Investors seem to be running short on hope.
Staff Report
| 12:16PM
California-based gardening retail chain Smith & Hawken, which has a store at Phillips Place in south Charlotte, is closing after 30 years in business.