People may not have changed a lot since 18th century England, when some actually relished public hangings. ...more

February 18, 2009

Toyota Motor Corp. slashed its earnings forecast again Monday, projecting that it would report its first operating loss ever for the fiscal year through March on waning global demand and a surging yen. ...more

December 22, 2008

Preliminary results from a national Associated Press exit poll of voters in Tuesday's elections: ...more

November 5, 2008

Phone company Frontier Communications Co. will probably charge its subscribers a dollar or two per gigabyte of Internet traffic if they go over the monthly allotments the company plans to introduce next year, Frontier's chief executive said Friday. ...more

November 2, 2008

Last December, somebody using the name "Test Person," from "Some Place, UT," made a series of contributions, the largest being $764, to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign totaling $2,410.07. ...more

October 10, 2008

FOOTBALL   Springstead's Bill Vonada not only became the school's all-time wins leader (50) Friday night, he's also the county's longest tenured football coach across 65 turbulent years. ...more

September 25, 2008

Every day, American Airlines Flight 914 takes off from Bogota, Colombia, at 8:20 a.m. and touches down at the Miami airport at noon. In the jet's cargo hold are usually bags and bags of euros that investigators say are part of a huge $1.4 billion cocaine money-laundering scheme. ...more

February 16, 2008

Ron Rust and Beve Kozub were poking around the toy booths at China's biggest trade fair two years ago when something caught their eye: pouty-faced baby dolls snuggling in light blue and pink fleece blankets, their eyes tightly shut or gazing with a newborn's woozy stare. ...more

January 12, 2008

Landmark deals to boost wages for Florida tomato pickers are in danger of collapsing under pressure from Burger King and a growers group, the latter threatening $100,000 fines against any members who participate. ...more

November 24, 2007

Al Gore announced Monday that he is joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to help the private sector take on global warming, and perhaps make some money. ...more

November 13, 2007