A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get none of the more than $300 million the late Playboy model claimed a Texas billionaire to whom she was briefly married meant to leave her after he died.
Describing it as "urban terrorism," California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown joined with Riverside County officials Thursday in asking the public to help find those who tried at least three times to kill officers assigned to a Hemet-based gang task force. "It is incredible and even unprecedented for police officers here to be subject to terrorist attack," Brown said at a Riverside news conference. "We have seen it south of the border, but not here yet." ...
A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to a Republican campaign committee and companies in Nevada in a probe of Senator John Ensign, who has been under scrutiny for his efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress.
Royal Dutch Shell and Canadian oil explorer Nexen Inc said they had made a "significant" discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, the latest in a string of big finds in the Gulf in the past year.
BusinessWeek: New MBAs used to have just one post-grad career destination, the U.S. Not anymore. Right now, Asia is where the career velocity and opportunity are.
Stocks halted their steady climb Friday after renewed concerns about Greece's ability to pay its debts left investors questioning a global economic recovery.
Minneapolis, Buffalo, Oklahoma City and Rochester, N.Y., don't have much else in common. But a government report shows they've had the smallest increases in joblessness over the past two years.
Did you know you can legally take a deduction that is more than the total of your receipts? It's called the standard deduction and for a lot of taxpayers it's a money and time saver.
A 2007 federal investigation diagnosed a number of potential dangers in Toyota cars and trucks, but the automaker resisted the findings and escaped a broad recall.
