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Pallbearers wearing blue shirts carry the coffin of Billy Mays from the church where the funeral mass was held in Mays' hometown near Pittsburgh Friday.

Product pitchman Mays remembered as natural seller

References to television pitchman Bill Mays' trademark image were everywhere at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh.

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July 3, 2009

• Tampa airport's revenue down
• Allstate Floridian now Castle Key
• 467,000 jobs cut in June; unemployment at 9.5%
• Billy Mays' pitches to live on
• Shuttered but not gone
• TIA could seek more flights

July 2, 2009

• Feds seize Madoff penthouse; wife asked to take fur coat
• Employed feel economy's pinch in paychecks
• Allstate Floridian changes name to Castle Key
• Progress Energy Florida rate hearings set for next week
• Report: TIA can try to land more international flights
• TIA Marriott, concessions revenues down from last year
• Out-of-business chain stores live on after name is sold
• Too many jobs lost, Obama says
• Jobless rate hits 9.5 percent, highest in 26 years
• E-cigs look, act and feel like real ones - but no tobacco smoke
• Government cracks down on swindlers
• Beach hotels hoping to weather the Fourth
• Pending home sales rise for 4th straight month
• A juicy proposal
• $231 million set aside to cover Madoff claims
• Auto sales leveling off

July 1, 2009

• July 4 weekend looking good for beach hotels
• Ford calls 10.7-percent drop in sales 'progress'

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