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Nate Dogg died Tuesday at age 41 of complications from multiple strokes, his attorney Mark Geragos told the Associated Press Wednesday.

In a story July 12 about Campbell Soup Co. offering earnings guidance for fiscal 2011 and 2012, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the company lowered its fiscal 2012 outlook.

The company actually provided its first guidance for fiscal 2012. Also, the story should have clarified that the company was spending money in Australia to automate packing operations.

The company said that investment would result in the elimination of about 190 jobs.

Record numbers cancelling cable, satellite TV service Associated Press , The weak economy is hitting Americans where they spend a lot of their free time: at the TV set.

Sara Lee selling dough unit to Ralcorp for $545M Associated Press , Sara Lee will sell its North American refrigerated dough business to Ralcorp for $545 million, the company said Tuesday, as it moves closer to splitting itself into two separate entities.

Most Americans doubt the U.S. government is prepared to respond to a nuclear emergency like the one in Japan, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows.

But it also shows few Americans believe such an emergency would occur.

Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley says an enforcement mechanism needs to be created to help curb unlicensed used of news on the Internet.

In a story Aug. 4 about Horizon Pharma Inc., The Associated Press reported erroneously on the company's partnerships on its drug Lodotra.

Mundipharma holds the rights to Lodotra in Europe except for Germany and Austria, and Merck Serono has the rights to Lodotra in Germany and Austria.

The Associated Press, which as early as two years ago objected to sites and blogs using their content, even with accreditation , has been skewered by the site Woot, which was recently acquired by Amazon.com.

Despite its opinion about its own content, the AP took some of the content from Woot CEO Matt Rutledgea s blog post about the sale.

The Associated Press said Tuesday that more than 900 newspapers and broadcasters will be supplementing their online coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics with a special package of stories, photographs, video and blogs produced by the AP.

In an Aug. 20 story about the Tennessee Valley Authority's budget for 2010, The Associated Press reported erroneously the impact of electric rate changes on consumers.