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Nov. 20--A well-known bank analyst has an unorthodox solution for Bank of America's CEO search: bring back Ken Lewis. Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Retail heavyweights Wal-Mart and Target are removing from their stores children's products identified by California Attorney General Jerry Brown as containing illegal levels of lead. Read more

CHICAGO — Sun-Times Media Group, which was recently sold out of bankruptcy to an investor group, has named John Barron group publisher and senior vice president of news and editorial operations. Read more

MIAMI — Investors claiming they were fleeced by a high-profile South Florida attorney filed a $100 million lawsuit Friday contending that the lawyer orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme with the help of a Canadian bank's U.S. subsidiary and several... Read more

NEW YORK — Moody's Investors Service said Friday that it downgraded ratings for Sprint Nextel Corp. because it is taking longer than expected to stanch a deterioration in its profit. Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Three South Carolina men have been found guilty of bilking thousands of investors out of more than $80 million. Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday. Read more

WASHINGTON — Florida banking regulators have shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults. Read more

NEW YORK — Medidata Solutions Inc., a maker of software and services for clinical development of drugs and medical devices, said Friday it plans a public offering of 4.5 million shares of its common stock. Read more

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday. Read more