Gov’t: More flights arriving on time

The U.S. Transportation Department said Tuesday that the nation’s biggest airlines achieved an ontime arrival rating of 79.6 percent in April, up from 77.6 percent in March and 77.3 percent in April 2013.

The most punctual airlines were Hawaiian, Alaska and Virgin America. The tardiest were ExpressJet, Southwest and Envoy, which used to be called American Eagle. a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling came in a suit brought by authors and authors’ groups after several research universities agreed in 2004 to let Google Inc. electronically scan their books and then created a repository for more than 10 million books published over many centuries and written in numerous languages.

The suit was filed after some 80 colleges, universities and other nonprofit institutions in October 2008 created the HathiTrust Digital Library.

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Wal-Mart change: Joel Anderson, Walmart.com U. S. CEO and president, will leave at the end of the month to become president of discount- store chain Five Below Inc. He will be succeeded by Fernando Madeira, president and CEO of Latin America at Walmart.com.