Reporting from Washington -- President Obama touted his plan for developing high-speed railways Thursday, detailing how $13 billion in federal money would act as a "down payment" on creating speedier passenger train service. "High-speed rail is long overdue, and this plan ...Read More
At around 11 a.m. Sunday, Broncos starting quarterback Kyle Orton walked onto Invesco Field at Mile High in shorts and a shirt and threw some passes. Orton wasn't hobbling and he seemed to be throwing well, although he did appear ...Read More
An upbeat Leon Washington, four weeks removed from his gruesome leg injury, said Thursday that he's ahead of schedule and hopes to rejoin his teammates next March for the start of the off-season conditioning program. "My goal is, which I'm very ...Read More
Associated Press fileTreasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Updated at 5:27 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Tuesday that efforts to strengthen the global financial system to prevent another deep crisis will falter if the United States drops the ...Read More
ADA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Direct-selling giant Amway says it's eliminating 93 positions in the United States and Canada over the next 15 months due to a consolidation of its financial operations. Amway Corp. said in a release issued Monday most of ...Read More
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said it is moving to split off its nutritionals business in a deal valued at up to about $6.5 billion, an unusual bid to focus the drug maker on its core medicine business. The unit, Mead Johnson Nutrition ...Read More
OCEAN CITY - A powerful storm born from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida began moving out to sea today after raking the East Coast for three days, leaving behind it a trail of flooding, damaged buildings, eroded beaches and ...Read More
TOKYO (AP) - President Barack Obama says the U.S. and Japan will work quickly to resolve a dispute over American military bases on Okinawa. At a news conference Friday, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama recalled that he had campaigned on the issue ...Read More
WASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said yesterday he will create a special panel to develop a plan to restore health to the ailing airline industry, which is losing billions of dollars, shedding jobs, and facing charges it is using ...Read More
WASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday he will create a special panel to come up with a plan to restore health to the ailing airline industry, which is losing billions of dollars, shedding jobs and blamed for using ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration should resist any calls to re-regulate or otherwise intervene in airline operations in an attempt to ensure the industry's viability, major U.S. carriers said on Thursday. The comments came as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood chaired ...Read More
CHICAGO -- A Connecticut woman attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee revealed her disfigured faceon television yesterday, saying she is blind and has to eat through a straw, but isn't angry. "I don't even think about it," Charla Nash said on The ...Read More
Squalls ahead of a rare late-season tropical storm that was crawling toward the Gulf Coast blew in heavy rain Monday as residents hunkered down mostly at home to ride out high winds and anticipated flooding.
Ida had slowed and weakened even ...Read More
CHICAGO - Ever since he was laid off in March, Frank Beilhas been on the lookout. He keeps an eye out for cars moving slowly down the street orstrangers walking along the sidewalk of his suburban Chicagoneighborhood. He wonders about the ...Read More
ALLEN PARK, Mich. - A movie company, owned by former Detroit Piston Dale Davis, is moving into the Unity Studios complex in Allen Park this weekend. It's the first company to move into the multi-million dollar Unity project since it was ...Read More
MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Jim Doyle says he has not gottenvaccinated for swine flu and probably won't. Doyle said he hasn't gotten it because he's not in the targetgroup of high-risk people health officials are urging to bevaccinated. Those include pregnant ...Read More
Hmmmm. Is she or isn't she? Is Oprah Winfrey moving her show to L.A.? Is the TV titan this/close to announcing she will give up her daytime syndicated talk show in mid-2011 to focus on her own Oprah Winfrey Network? • Backdate: Sneed ...Read More
The IPO market showed signs of unease, with one company postponing its deal and Hyatt Hotel Corp. moving its debut one day earlier. Regional bank PlainsCapital Corp., which was scheduled to price its initial public offering Wednesday night and begin trading ...Read More
Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) - The TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm has been named the host site for the 2010 Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship. Baltimore Country Club, which has served as host for the Champions Tour's fifth major since 2007, ...Read More
Stephen Colbert, who spends a fair amount of time spinning around on comedic thin ice, announced on Monday that "The Colbert Report" will become the primary sponsor of the United States Speed Skating team. According to The Associated Press, after ...Read More
Traffic on the Tri-State Tollway came to a stop for about 45 minutesTuesday morning after some live wires were knocked onto the road by aconstruction crane. The incident happened about 8:05 a.m. on theTri-State (I-294) just south of Willow Road, according ...Read More
