Regulators on Friday shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and California, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 120 amid the struggling economy...

Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 60.Obama calls holdouts on health care, David Espo

Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, offering f...

Airline stocks rose Friday as oil prices tumbled, easing the carriers' fears over jet fuel costs.The broader market also gained, as investors shrugged off another ri...

Mesa Air Group Inc. said Friday that United Airlines did not extend an agreement under which Mesa operated 26 regional jets for the larger carrier.Mesa operates the ...

Hyatt Hotels Corp. said Friday that underwriters of its initial public offering have exercised their option to buy 5.7 million more shares of common stock at $25 apiece.Small banks in Ga., Mich., Minn., Mo. closed, Ieva M. Augstums And Marcy Gordon

Regulators on Friday shut small banks in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 119 amid the struggling economy and a ...

To hear directors of some state agencies tell it, managing Nebraska's worst fiscal crisis in recent memory isn't that big of a deal. Others tell a totally different story, ...

President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and additional jobless benefits to those...

The former head of the Idaho Transportation Department filed a lawsuit Friday against the agency, saying she was fired in a political power play to help Gov. C.L. "Butch" O...

Dolan Media Co. said Friday it bought an 85 percent stake in DiscoverReady LLC, which provides document-review services to companies and their lawyers.Financial term...

Regulators on Friday shut small banks in Georgia and Michigan, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 117 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults o...

Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to ...

Facing an expected $1 billion shortfall in next year's budget, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is proposing a 4.6 percent cut in education spending and charging sales tax on item...

Shell Oil Co. has been ordered to pay $19.5 million to the state for environmental violations at gas stations around California.The findings come after the Attorney ...

In a tacit acknowledgment of a delay in their plan to combine, Live Nation Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. said in filings Friday that a shareholders meeting to ap...

Two top Florida Democrats want changes to the makeup of the board that oversees Florida's $130 billion investment portfolio now under scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and ...

Sports management agency Crown Athlete Management Co. said Friday it has sued the maker of the Monster energy drink, accusing it of fraud and other wrongdoing.The la...

Gubernatorial candidate Artur Davis has picked up an endorsement from a major union.The Democratic congressman received the support of Communications Workers of Amer...

Broadway has found its Spider-Man — rock singer Reeve Carney.Producer Michael Cohl says Carney will portray celebrated web-slinger Peter Parker in "Spider-Man Turn...

New Jersey's next governor vowed Friday to veto any tax increase the Legislature sends to his desk in the coming year.Chris Christie said New Jerseyans already face ...

Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Associatio...

Fedor Emelianenko is ready for his close-up.The Russian mixed martial artist will no longer be his sport's least-seen superstar after Saturday night, when CBS showca...

Among the earnings stories for Friday, Nov. 6, from AP Financial News:Top stories:WASHINGTON (AP) — Freddie Mac says its losses narrowed to $6.3 billion in ...

A Mississippi woman has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for hiding more than $255,000 from a bankruptcy trustee.Linda Hardy was sentenced Friday in U....

Among the earnings stories for Friday, Nov. 6, from AP Financial News:Top stories:OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's company says its third-quarter profit ...

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Wireless heart-monitoring device maker CardioNet Inc. fell to a loss in the third quarter, as it had ramped up marketing spending after Medicare lowered reimbursement rates...

Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and w...

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former New Orleans technology chief Greg Meffert, his wife and a one-time city vendor in an alleged kickback scheme involving contra...

Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., the nation's largest ticket seller and proposed merger partner of Live Nation Inc., is scheduled to report its third-quarter earnings on Mo...

North Carolina's highest court ruled Friday that three cigarette companies no longer have to make payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania under a decade-ol...

Paper gains on derivative contracts helped Berkshire Hathaway Inc. triple its third-quarter profit as its insurance businesses did well, but Warren Buffett's company said F...

Rosetta Resources Inc. said Friday its revenue fell by nearly half due to lower natural gas prices.The exploration and production company said it earned $5.7 million...

Pixel Magic, which creates digital visual effects for film and television, announced Friday that it will open a Louisiana studio in December.The studio will be locat...

MaxLinear Inc., a maker of TV tuners, is planning to go public.The Carlsbad, Calif.-based company made an S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. received a $143.2 million contract from the Air Force for electronics upgrades for the C-5 aircraft, the Pentagon said late Friday.Shares of th...

IBM Corp. on Friday made an offer to certain debt holders to swap their long-term debt with bonds carrying a lower interest rate plus cash in a move to save money and bolst...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is postponing a brief trade trip to Mexico, saying that President Felipe Calderon has a scheduling conflict.The Republican governor was d...

A Detroit man has been charged in the theft of nearly $1 million in money intended for employee prescription drug coverage in the city of River Rouge.Michigan Attorn...

Unemployed Rhode Islanders can now collect jobless benefits for up to 99 weeks.President Barack Obama on Friday signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law ...

Regulators on Friday shut United Security Bank, a small bank in Georgia, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 116 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of ...

Candidates for Illinois governor are split over a national health care plan with all but one Republican saying the state should opt out if it can, a position rejected by De...

The House approved legislation Friday aimed at making chemical and water treatment facilities less vulnerable to terrorist attack.The three-part legislation would gi...

Freddie Mac's losses narrowed to $6.3 billion in the third quarter, but the government-controlled mortgage finance company didn't need a federal cash infusion.The Mc...

One Liberty Properties Inc. on Friday said its third-quarter funds from operations rose 22 percent as rental income rose.The real estate investment trust, which focu...

Ferro Corp. said Friday it completed the sale of 41.1 million shares of common stock and will use some of the proceeds for restructuring programs.The company had 44....

Michael Jackson's father is seeking an allowance from his son's estate to help cover expenses that exceed $15,000 a month, according to court documents filed Friday....

Live Nation Inc., the world's biggest concert promoter and proposed merger partner of Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., is scheduled to report its third-quarter earnings on ...

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The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange:NYSE:American International Group Inc.,...

Dunkin' Donuts said Friday it will launch a new 99-cent menu at 500 Chicago locations on Monday and hand out 20,000 gift cards pre-loaded with $2 each to lure customers.Indiana governor announces more spending cuts, Mike Smith

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced on Friday a series of spending cuts and other steps to offset a continuing multimillion-dollar dive in state revenues.Among othe...

One-third of Virginia's watermen have offered to sell their licenses back to the state under a buyback program intended to ease pressure on the Chesapeake Bay crab.T...

York Water Co., which purifies and distributes water, said Friday a higher number of customers plus a rate increase lifted its third-quarter profit by 20 percent.Net...

Investors added to the week's strong gains in the stock market after finding some positives in a surprisingly weak jobs report. Stock indexes posted a modest advance in lig...

GMAC Bank recently reinvented itself as Ally Bank. The move was a way to distance itself from its troubled parent company GMAC Financial Services, which is negotiating its ...

Its TV and print ads poke fun at the bait-and-switch tactics of other banks. Its interest rates on CDs have been the most generous in the industry.Ally Bank's tactic...

AT&T Inc. said Friday that its acquisition of smaller wireless carrier Centennial Communications Corp., has closed after several delays due to the regulatory process.2nd deep shaft reopened at old gold mine in SD, Dirk Lammers

Crews pumping water out of the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead have reopened a second deep shaft that eventually will be used as the primary entrance and exit for sc...

A judge has tossed out a decision — for now at least — that could have cost PepsiCo Inc. $1.26 billion after the soft drink maker didn't respond to a lawsuit claiming i...

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Drug and medical device maker Covidien PLC said Friday it completed its $210 million purchase of Aspect Medical Systems, a company that makes brain monitoring technology.Potential problems at 20 W.Va. coal ash dams, Tim Huber

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection may change its policy for inspecting coal ash impoundments after a survey uncovered more problems — and dams — ...

Michigan's chief environmental regulator wants more information about a rocky outcrop in Marquette County that could affect plans for a nickel and copper mine.Steven...

Investors undaunted by a surprisingly weak jobs report found enough positive news to nudge stocks higher Friday.News that the nation's unemployment rate rose above 1...

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. got a boost Friday after a Bernstein Research analyst upgraded the Seattle-based online retailer, expecting faster revenue growth in 2010.A...

Brookfield Asset Management on Friday said its board declared a dividend of 13 cents.The Toronto-based investment company said the dividend is payable Feb. 28 to sha...

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. on Friday said its third-quarter profit fell 35 percent, as revenue declined, expenses rose and the company booked a charge of more than $1...

The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by American Indian farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans o...

U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick says he intends to vote against the health care reform bill coming up for a vote in the U.S. House.Minnick, Idaho's lone Democrat in Congress,...

When senior citizens finally surrender the car keys, they don't have to lose their independence.Efficient transportation services can help local economies by allowin...

Mirant Corp. on Friday posted a 97 percent plunge in its third-quarter profit — driven mainly by one-time hedging losses — and lowered its 2009 adjusted earnings before...

A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others...

Consumers borrowed less for a record eighth straight month in September amid rising unemployment and tight credit conditions. Economists worry the declines in borrowing wil...

Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. reports earnings for its fiscal second quarter, which ended in September, on Monday after the market closes. The following is a su...

Investigators are looking into the behavior of Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.'s CEO during a zoning vote by the St. Louis County Council this week on a casino complex being de...

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PriceSmart Inc., which runs warehouse-shopping clubs, said Friday its fourth-quarter profit declined 9 percent as an increase in operating expenses hurt its bottom line.Meltdown 101: When unemployment last hit 10 pct, Christopher S. Rugaber

The last time unemployment climbed past 10 percent, "The A-Team" was one of the top 10 TV shows and Michael Jackson was about to release "Thriller."Much has changed ...

Massachusetts has received about $2 million in federal stimulus funding to help identify the speed and location of broadband services in the state over the next five years....

Over the last year it's become abundantly clear that the stock market can devastate even seemingly healthy retirement accounts. Even so, with the guaranteed income of tradi...

The clock is ticking on a Monday deadline for Kraft Foods Inc. to make a formal offer for British candy maker Cadbury PLC.Kraft, which makes Oreo cookies, Nabisco cr...

The state of Wisconsin does not have to pay $225,000 to a blind businesswoman in a dispute over an Army dining contract, a federal judge ruled this week.An arbitrati...

Victims and the families of those killed in the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis in 2007 agreed Friday to settle their lawsuits against a construction company ...

Oil prices tumbled Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983.Benchmark crude for December delivery ...

A reality show miniseries about the Jackson family will premiere Dec. 13 on A&E, the network says. Back-to-back hour episodes will air that night at 9 p.m. EST."...

Gold prices outshone other commodities Friday, soaring to a new high of $1,100 an ounce, as prices for copper, oil and soybeans fell.Gold prices have been rallying i...

To hear directors of some state agencies, managing Nebraska's fiscal crisis isn't that big of a deal. Others tell a totally different story, one of drastic cutbacks in serv...

Carl-Peter Forster, the chief executive of General Motors Europe who runs its struggling Opel unit, will leave the company, GM said Friday.GM said in a statement tha...

A 4.5-mile trail for ATV riders running through the northernmost city of New Hampshire may be key to putting the North Country community, still suffering from the loss of i...

Arizona municipalities will sue to challenge state budget legislation that local government officials contend went astray.The executive board of the League of Arizon...

The state of Wisconsin does not have to pay $225,000 to a blind businesswoman in a dispute over an Army dining contract, a federal judge ruled this week.An arbitrati...

NEW YORK — Deadline for submitting a revised agreement in the battle over Google Inc.'s effort to get digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.ENGLEWOOD, C...

Arch Capital Group Ltd. said Friday it will buy back up to an additional $1 billion of its common stock.The insurance and reinsurance provider has $350.1 million sti...

Windstream Corp.'s acquisition of D&E Communications Inc. phone and Internet company has the approval of Pennsylvania state utility regulators.The Pennsylvania P...

The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. this week has risen by nine this week to 1,078.Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday ...

Poetry and music have been cut and there will be no parade to kick off the Miami Book Fair International as in years past. But one of the nation's leading literary festival...

Canadian sweetener supplier GLG Life Tech Corp. plans to offer 3.6 million common shares in a U.S. initial public offering.The company, which makes zero-calorie natu...

Hedge fund and private equity firm The Blackstone Group LP on Friday posted a narrower loss for the third quarter, as its private equity holdings gained value and its real ...

Treasury prices mostly rose Friday after the government said the nation's unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year-high of 10.2 percent last month.The jump in unemploy...

Elected officials in Oxford have endorsed by a 5-0 vote a proposal to build a resort and casino in the western Maine town.The Board of Selectmen voted Thursday night...

New Orleans Hornets owner George Shinn said Friday he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer but remains healthy and is optimistic that he will conquer the disease....

The woman who filed a lawsuit accusing Ben Roethlisberger of raping her has quit her job at the Lake Tahoe hotel-casino where she claims the assault occurred in the NFL qua...

A Virginia man will spend more than seven years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than $5 million from more than 30 investors.John Mark Donnelly ...

David Beckham earned nearly 10 million pounds ($16.5 million) from personal sponsorship deals during his first full season with the Los Angeles Galaxy.The England mi...

International Game Technology on Thursday posted a fiscal fourth-quarter loss, but said it thinks demand for its slot machines and casino management systems has stabilized....

The city's largest transit union said Friday that no progress has been made in contract negotiations, tamping down hopes of an end to a strike that has idled subways, buses...

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says $150 million in federal funds will be made available for the purchase of 1,352 homes damaged in last year's floods.The funding is part of ...

Water officials have banned septic tanks in portions of Malibu, ending years of wrangling between surfers, environmentalists and residents in the celebrity-filled community...

The housing bust left homebuilders with plenty of red ink on their books as they walked away from swaths of land they no longer needed.But now homebuilders are on th...

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. said Friday that lenders have agreed to give the company more time to pay back a revolving credit facility and certain term loans, giv...

EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of invest...

A judge sentenced "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis on Friday to time served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns.U.S. District Judge S. J...

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:___LONDON — Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group P...

STR Holdings Inc. shares jumped Friday after the solar products company launched its initial public offering, but shares priced below expectations on the New York Stock Exc...

Two Nebraska banks have obtained federal loan guarantees through the U.S Department of Agriculture, which is using federal stimulus funding.The USDA said in a news r...

Car dealers must inspect used vehicles for safety defects and either make repairs or warn potential buyers before they are resold, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.<...

Disabled with severe cerebral palsy, 32-year-old Anne Lamic spends her days in southeastern France mostly in bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and dolls. She cannot speak ...

Shares of clothing retailer Bebe Stores Inc. tumbled 8 percent Friday, after it posted a quarterly loss on sharply lower sales.Bebe lost $4.2 million, or 5 cents per...

A former top NASA official was sentenced Friday to three years probation, six months of electronic monitoring and a $2,500 fine for steering contract money to a private cli...

Canada's unemployment rate rose to 8.6 percent in October from 8.4 percent a month earlier as the economy shed a net total of 43,200 jobs, the government said Friday.Fortress Investment posts wider 3rd-qtr loss

Alternative asset manager Fortress Investment Group LLC said Friday its third-quarter loss deepened as it cut expenses and recorded a big gain on affiliate investments....

Shares of Magna International Inc. soared Friday after the Canadian auto supplier said it posted a $51 million third-quarter profit, blowing away Wall Street predictions.Modus Link Corp. ships Utah jobs to China

The U.S. Department of Labor says workers laid off in Utah by a business-services company will qualify for special federal assistance because their jobs were lost to foreig...

Dril-Quip Inc., which makes equipment for offshore oil drilling, said Friday its profit slipped from a year ago on a charge even as sales rose, and it gave a fourth-quarter...

Global power company AES Corp. said Friday it is selling a 15 percent stake in itself to China's investment arm for $1.58 billion in a move to raise cash to develop project...

A former hedge fund manager arrested earlier this year has been indicted on federal charges he participated in a $7 million insider trading scam.The indictment again...

Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian res...

A Florida yacht broker who admitted filing a false U.S. tax return and concealing millions of dollars in a secret account at Swiss bank UBS AG was sentenced Friday to two m...

EBay Inc. says a group of investors who are buying the majority of its telecommunications service, Skype, agreed to settle a legal skirmish with Skype's founders.The...

Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers charged with lying to investors always were honest about the risks of investing in securities linked to the volatile subprime mo...

Pollsters say economic worries may have contributed to a decline in rural Nebraskans' views of their communities.The 2009 Nebraska Rural Poll was conducted by the Un...

State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly $225 million.The Arka...

Internet speeds in more than four-fifths of Minnesota are too slow to support technologies that could draw new jobs, take cars off the roads and bring new services to peopl...

Stocks zigzagged in light trading Friday as investors found some positives for the market in a surprisingly weak jobs report.The Labor Department said employers cut ...

A Florida yacht broker has been sentenced to two months in prison for a tax conviction stemming from the U.S. investigation of secret accounts at Swiss bank UBS AG.B...

Opposition to Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman's plan to use some crop checkoff dollars to balance the state budget may be working.Nebraska Farm Bureau President Keith Ol...

Nebraska lawmakers have only one more day to introduce bills in their budget-cutting special session.Friday is the last day senators can introduce bills to help deal...

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.The agency sent...

The owner of a plant that has made school buses in Conway for decades said that it would end bus-production operations there soon, affecting up to 477 jobs at the facility....

Shares of Chinese printing equipment supplier Duoyuan Printing Inc. fell Friday after its initial public offering raised $63 million, pricing at the bottom of its expected ...

State Street Corp. on Friday said it added $250 million to a legal reserve, and revised its third-quarter earnings results downward to reflect the change.The financi...

Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still e...

The world's top finance officials sought agreement Friday on ways to secure future global economic growth as the world hesitantly emerges from recession.They also tr...

A former Teamsters official testified that then New York state Sen. Joseph Bruno told him in 1994 that Wright Investors Service wanted to manage his local's pension fund an...

Stocks are fluctuating in a tight range as investors find some positives for the market in a surprisingly weak jobs report.The Labor Department's report Friday that ...

A former member of Gov. Bob Riley's Cabinet claimed Thursday that Riley received campaign contributions from Mississippi Indians who operate casinos, with the money intende...

A former college staffer convicted of ripping off the school raised money to repay it by roping far-flung investors into funding a fictitious online fitness magazine, prose...

Gov. Phil Bredesen says a legislative staff member who attacked a state-backed initiative to turn switchgrass into ethanol is playing politics and endangering chances to la...

U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns said Thursday that his concern for Nebraska families is what's driving his opposition to legislation that would turn control of student loans over to...

This holiday season's biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus...

Charlie Weis likes his team's chances of earning a Bowl Championship Series berth — if No. 19 Notre Dame keeps winning.Gator Bowl president Rick Catlett does, too....

The safe-haven dollar got an immediate boost Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate rose above 10 percent, but then gave back its gains in choppy tradi...

David Beckham earned nearly $16.5 million from personal sponsorship deals during his first full season with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2008.Newly released accounts fr...

Energy West Inc., a natural gas and energy marketing company in Great Falls, has bought 83 percent of the outstanding shares of Cut Bank Gas Co., a natural gas utility serv...

Agriculture futures were mostly lower Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.Wheat for December delivery dropped 4 cents to $5.0825 a bushel, while De...

Oil prices tumbled Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983.Benchmark crude for December delivery ...

The Michigan House voted to tap federal stimulus money set aside for next year to soften a cut in school funding now, but it's unlikely the move is going to win the support...

European Parliament lawmakers on Friday demanded that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ease restrictions for Europeans traveling to the United States, sayi...

Biotechnology company Halozyme Therapeutics Inc. reported a bigger third-quarter loss on Friday, as it started clinical trials of a fast-acting insulin during the period.Mass. commission ruling means delay for Cape Wind

The nation's first offshore wind farm faces more delay after a top Massachusetts historic preservation officer said that two Indian tribes' claim to Nantucket Sound needed ...

AOL, the Internet service provider owned by Time Warner Inc., on Friday named Gilt Groupe CEO Susan Lyn0e to its board.Lyne and nine other directors will join the AO...

A state senator is proposing a constitutional amendment that — if approved by the General Assembly and then voters — would allow video gambling machines in Kentucky.Stocks zigzag on implications of jobs report, Sara Lepro And Tim Paradis

Stocks fluctuated in a tight range Friday as investors found some positives for the market in a surprisingly weak jobs report.The Labor Department said employers cut...

Gov. Martin O'Malley says he plans to create Maryland's first commission on small business.It's one of a variety of plans to help small businesses the governor is ou...

Used vehicle prices edged lower in October, according to a closely watched index, ending a three-month climb that brought prices to their highest level the previous month.<...

A spokesman for the federal economic stimulus program is defending the program's Web site against criticism from a top Wyoming official, who said she sees problems with the...

California utility operator Edison International said Friday its third-quarter profit fell on lower earnings at its Edison Mission Group.Edison earned $403 million, ...

Shares of Ormat Technologies Inc. tumbled on Friday as an analyst downgraded the stock, citing 2010 product revenue uncertainties.Shares of Ormat, which designs, bui...

Knology Inc., a cable, phone and Internet services provider, said it posted a $3.3 million quarterly loss because of hefty accounting charges and other costs to amend a cre...

Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. said Friday its third-quarter profit climbed 37 percent, boosted by strong revenue at its Food Network and HGTV networks.The compan...

Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc., a development-stage biotechnology company, said late Thursday its third-quarter loss widened on higher research, development, and interest e...

Shares of Activision Blizzard Inc. rose Friday after the video game publisher posted strong third-quarter results and backed its full-year outlook amid a difficult time for...

Halliburton Co. said Friday it received a contract to drill and complete oil wells in Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field.Halliburton said the Ghawar field is the world's la...

Chemical company FMC Corp. said Friday it named Pierre Brondeau as its president and CEO, effective Jan. 1.Brondeau succeeds William G. Walter. He will continue as c...

The chief executive of English soccer club Chelsea says the team is aiming to win the Champions League twice in the next five years and may sell its stadium naming rights t...

Instead of figuring out where to put nuclear waste, why can't we just find a way to neutralize it so it's no longer hazardous?Curiosity about what to do with nuclear...

Stocks rose early Friday as investors shrugged off news that more jobs were lost in October than expected, pushing the unemployment rate above 10 percent for the first time...

STR Holdings Inc. shares climbed modestly after the solar products company launched its initial public offering but priced below expectations on the New York Stock Exchange...

German industrial orders increased again in September thanks to strong foreign demand, official figures showed Friday, offering another sign that Europe's biggest economy i...

A crackdown in more than 80 countries turned up $3.5 million hidden in carry-on and checked bags as people smuggled illicit money across international borders.The mo...

An engine tail cone popped off a Delta airlines jet shortly after takeoff from New York's Kennedy Airport. It plummeted thousands of feet into a Long Island neighborhood be...

It's been a rough year for the video game industry, but Activision Blizzard Inc. reported a profit for its third quarter because of lower costs and a good response for game...

Next year may be a year of stabilization in Hawaii's economy, but it will likely be 2011 before sustained economic recovery sets in, economist Leroy Laney said.Laney...

Carl-Peter Forster, the chief executive of General Motors Europe who runs its struggling Opel unit, has decided to leave the company, two people briefed on the decision sai...

The Virginia Supreme Court upheld permits for construction of a multistate power line Thursday, rejecting a claim by the project's opponents that state regulators ceded too...

Stocks fell in early trading Friday after the government said more jobs were lost in October than expected, pushing the unemployment rate above 10 percent for the first tim...

Investigators for the world's diamond control body say the gems were mined by virtual slaves who had been told to dig or die, and were smuggled out by soldiers who rape and...

Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earli...

A surge in medical marijuana in California has left communities trying to regulate or ban the drug. This wine country town has welcomed a dispensary as a strong source of t...

Rich Stearns works and lives just outside Seattle. He grew up in New York state. He lived in Philadelphia for 10 years.So he was torn as a fan watching the Yankees a...

At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence. FDA inspectors found roaches,...

The former manager of a kosher Iowa slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid says he never intentionally violated federal laws.But Sholom Rubas...

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher.The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the...

Milwaukee police have arrested a man accused of stealing a truck carrying 900 doses of swine flu vaccine.The suspect is a 38-year-old man with a criminal record. Pol...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books...

Oil prices lost over $2 to stumble below $78 a barrel Friday as rising U.S. unemployment figures renewed concerns about the economic recovery and consumer demand.By ...

European stocks fell and Wall Street was expected to drop on the open Friday after data showed the U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent in October, more than expec...

Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. said Friday it will pay $296 million to settle a Department of Justice investigation into the company's Guidant unit.The...

Driven by strength across all its businesses, Nvidia Corp. posted better-than-expected results for its third quarter, sending shares higher in premarket trading Friday....

Dolan Media Co., a provider of legal and professional publications and services, said Friday its third-quarter profit more than doubled as revenue grew sharply in its mortg...

Environmentalists expressed outrage Thursday after a Mexican judge upheld a requirement that they post a $1.1 million bond to pursue a suit against a project to rebuild Can...

A judge has ruled that a Long Island man accused of murdering his mother is not mentally fit to stand trial.Eduardo Barragan, the son of the businessman who founded ...

Stock futures sank Friday after the government said more jobs were lost in October than expected, pushing the unemployment rate above 10 percent for the first time since 19...

Locked safes, medical equipment and clothing piled from floor to ceiling were among the hoards of personal belongings sorted by police on Thursday after a couple was arrest...

Gov. Ed Rendell said Friday a new proposal has been sent to the union in an effort to end the strike by Philadelphia transit workers, now entering its fourth day.The...

CF Industries Holdings Inc. has rejected rival fertilizer maker Agrium Inc.'s sweetened takeover bid, saying the $4.5 billion bid significantly undervalues the company....

State lawmakers are debating plans ranging from auto racing to consolidating municipal services to steer Rhode Island through a bleak financial crisis.The proposals ...

An auction of oil drilling rights on North Dakota state land has fetched $71.6 million, a record haul that will go mostly to benefit public schools.Oil producers and...

A former Home Depot Inc. manager is facing federal charges that he shared the Atlanta-based retail giant's trade secrets with a potential vendor.Guillermo Martinez w...

Alcoa Inc. plans to invest more than $110 million at its Cleveland plant in part to refurbish a forging press used in the production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter plane....

Alabama is benefiting from Kia's assembly plant on the Georgia state line.The Alabama Development Office released a statement Thursday saying Kia is responsible for ...

A Minnesota hamburger parlor and McDonald's Corp. have settled a federal lawsuit over the phrase, "Who's your patty?"Michael Lafeber is an attorney for The Lion's Ta...

Canada's unemployment rate rose to 8.6 percent in October from 8.4 percent a month earlier as the economy shed 43,200 jobs, the government said Friday.The decline in...

AIG said Friday it was profitable for the second straight quarter as its core insurance operations continue to stabilize after the company's bailout by the government last ...

The Florida agency that manages $132 billion in pension and local government investments is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.The St. Pet...

Stock futures are holding steady as investors await the government's report on October employment.The report from the Labor Department is considered a key gauge of t...

Businesses likely slashed wholesale inventories for a record 13th consecutive month in September. But analysts expect sales rose for a sixth straight month.Steadily ...

Consumers likely reduced their borrowing for an eighth straight month in September, as layoffs continue and credit remains tight. The declines in borrowing are expected to ...

German reinsurance company Hannover Re AG reported net income of euro159 million ($235 million) in the third quarter from a loss a year ago, as a result of an increase in p...

China criticized Washington for imposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made steel pipes and launched a probe Friday of imported U.S. autos, adding to trade tensions two we...

Stock markets rose Friday ahead of the release of key U.S. jobs data, which markets use to gauge the health of consumer spending in the world's largest economy in the run-u...

The world's top financial officials on Friday sought a blueprint for securing future global growth and worked to break a break a deadlock over who bears the cost of fightin...

Asian markets advanced Friday on the back of Wall Street's rally after upbeat economic figures revived confidence about the state of the American economy. But European stoc...

British Airways PLC on Friday reported a net loss of 208 million pounds ($346 million) in the six months ending in September as the global economic downturn continued to ta...

Oil prices climbed toward $80 a barrel Friday, catching up with a surge in global stock markets and assisted by a slightly weaker dollar which made crude more attractive to...

Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC on Friday reported a net loss of 1.8 billion pounds ($3 billion) but that underlying profits had improved and lending...

Shares of Amdocs Ltd. rose Thursday after the telecommunications equipment maker posted higher fourth-quarter earnings and gave a solid forecast for its fiscal first quarte...

Skyworks Solutions Inc., which makes semiconductors for wireless products, said Thursday its profit increased as lower operating costs offset a slight decline in sales....

Harris Stratex Networks Inc., which makes wireless equipment, said Thursday it swung to a fiscal first-quarter loss, mostly due to restructuring and other one-time charges....

Leap Wireless International Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter loss grew 31 percent as competition and the weak economy were a drag on subscriber growth.The compan...

Semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc. said Thursday that revenue will grow in the current quarter, and set a profit target above analysts' expectations.Skywork...

Technology-services provider Sapient Corp. said Thursday that third-quarter profits plunged by two-thirds, partly due to special charges, and the CEO said customers were gr...

Sapient Corp., which helps companies with technology needs, said Thursday that services revenue would rise sequentially in the fourth quarter.The company said servic...

Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC on Friday reported a net loss of 1.8 billion pounds ($3 billion) despite an improvement in underlying profits and sai...

The economy is rebounding from its deepest slump since the 1930s, but it probably won't seem that way when the government releases its monthly employment report on Friday.<...

Asian markets advanced Friday on the back of Wall Street's rally after upbeat economic figures revived confidence about the state of the U.S. economy.Every major mar...