AP - The Metra commuter rail agency will pay $11 million to settle two wrongful death lawsuits stemming from a 2005 derailment, under a settlement approved by a judge Wednesday.
White House stressed that it supports help, but not at the expense of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue program.With the Senate ready to start work on assistance to the industry, press secretary Dan...
In a collaboration believed to be the first of its kind, the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times will combine their Tallahassee staffs into a single bureau to expand news and enterprise coverage of ...
AP - Comcast Corp. on Wednesday said it will begin rolling out faster Internet speeds over the next few weeks in selected markets to homes and businesses.
Smoky skies cleared and once-whipping winds slowed to a standstill Tuesday, as another wave of evacuees from Southern California's ferocious weekend wildfires prepared to sort through the remains of their homes.
Published Date: November 16, 2008 CHICAGO: President-elect Barack Obama yesterday urged Congress to get moving next week on an economic rescue plan that would extend jobless benefits among other acti...
Business cycles and economic crises come and go, say people in the corn and wheat country of northeastern Colorado. In the long view, getting through is about pluck and luck.
NEW YORK (AP) ― Wall Street has ended another highly volatile session with a big last-minute loss as the market's stubborn worries about a protracted downturn in the economy and tight credit ma...
(CBS) For a soldier, the wounds of war can be felt long after a tour of duty ends, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports, and not all of them are inflicted by the enemy. Tuesda...
In a history-making presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain, the economy was the defining issue and Colorado was a pivotal state. McCain, a veteran U.S. Senate Republican from Arizona ...
General Motors Corp. says about 3,600 workers will be laid off indefinitely beginning early next year as the automaker slows down production at 10 of its assembly plants.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former world 400 meters record-holder and twice Olympic medalist Larry James has died of cancer, USA Track & Field said on Friday.
It was the question millions of Americans wanted to ask the Obamas: what's happening on the dog front, guys? The answer? Nothing yet. Barack Obama was probed not just about the big issues of th...
AP - Soldiers arrested a leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel after a shootout in a middle-class neighborhood of the border city across from San Diego, Mexico's Defense Department announced Sunday.
DAMASCUS, Syria – An American school in Damascus closed its doors and told students to go home Monday after the Syrian government ordered it shut down in response to a deadly U.S. cross-border r...
The Federal Reserve says it will supply New Zealand's central bank with up to $15 billion, part of an ongoing effort by the Fed to break through a global credit clog.
There is nothing worse than that really scary boss. Learn some ways to cope with the bad supervisor. Take Ryan, from Hauppauge, N.Y., a public relations professional whose former boss never missed an ...
Democrat Al Franken feels like Election Day had never come and gone."Franken campaign attempts to stuff ballot box at the last minute," blared a Monday news release from the Coleman campaign. That cam...
WASHINGTON — Once again, the government has offered another plan to help troubled homeowners. Once again, critics say it doesn't go far enough. The plan announced Tuesday by federal officials and...
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