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U.S. retail diesel prices rose last week for the first time in nearly three months, with the national average creeping up 2.1 cents to $3.866, even as crude prices are dropping and petroleum product inventories are bulging.

INDIANAPOLIS — Pilot Flying J CEO Jimmy Haslam said he was “absolutely not aware” of any alleged scheme by employees to underpay customers of a fuel rebate program that is now the subject of a federal criminal investigation.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) signed into law the state’s first gas tax increase in 20 years and announced $1.2 billion in transportation projects, the Associated Press reported.

Deutsche Post AG, Europe’s largest package express carrier, said its first-quarter net income fell 5.9% to $648 million, Bloomberg News reported.

U.S. rail intermodal traffic rose 3.9% last week from the same week a year ago to 248,266 units, the Association of American Railroads reported.

An index of leading economic indicators rose in April from a decline the prior month, the New York-based Conference Board said Friday.

The Boston Marathon bombing showed American courage and spirit as exemplified by the marathon runners, spectators and the first responders, who, rather than running away from the bombing scene, ran directly into it to help the injured.

The North Carolina House voted unanimously to ban tolls on any existing interstate highway, which would end the state’s plan to toll Interstate 95.