Business Digest

REGION

Some Dominion East Ohio customers to pay less

CLEVELAND — Dominion East Ohio customers who buy their natural gas under the Standard Choice Offer will pay $6.67 per thousand cubic feet, beginning Feb. 17. The rate is 54 cents less than the one now in effect. It also is 13 cents lower than the rate that was in effect in Febuary 2009.

The Standard Choice Offer rate is charged to customers who do not have a third-party supplier and are not part of a government aggregation group.

NATION

GM plan to sell Hummer delayed by a month

DETROIT — General Motors’ plan to sell the hulking, once-hot Hummer line to a Chinese heavy-equipment maker has been delayed by a month, officials said Monday.

General Motors Co. and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. said they are extending the deadline to complete the transaction until Feb. 28 pending final approval by the Chinese government. The previous deadline was Jan. 31 for a definitive agreement to sell the line once synonymous with America’s love for big off-road vehicles.

From Vindicator staff and wire reports