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Five years to the day after AOL co-founder Steve Case first came to Chattanooga to invest in a burgeoning logistics industry, the billionaire investor returned Wednesday to help launch an initiative to support new businesses focused on sustainable ways to move freight, people and information.

The nonseasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped last month in 14 of the 19 Chattanooga-area counties. Half of the local counties had jobless rates at or below the U.S . average jobless rate of 3.6% in March.