Bankruptcies low in states that don't seize wages
Sunday, July 05, 2009
States that allow debt collectors to seize consumers'' wages have sharply higher bankruptcy rates than neighboring states that prohibit or strictly limit the practice, an Associated Press analysis has found....
Submarine detects signal from Yemenia black boxes
Sunday, July 05, 2009
PARIS (AP) -- A submarine scouring the Indian Ocean on Sunday detected the signal beacons of the two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed off the Comoros Islands, the French aviation agency said....
Harvard pres.: School has tough choices in decline
Sunday, July 05, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Drew Gilpin Faust started as Harvard''s president when the university''s prosperity seemed limitless. With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in student financial aid....
Investors' focus shifts to 2Q earnings reports
Sunday, July 05, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors, whose optimism was recently shaken by surprisingly weak economic data, are now hoping companies can provide some clues about a recovery....
`Transformers,' `Ice Age' tie for No. 1 at $42.5M
Sunday, July 05, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Prehistoric creatures and robots were in a photo finish for the Fourth of July box-office crown Sunday, with 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' and 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' tied with $42.5 million each....
Geeks double as scourges and sages at media summit
Sunday, July 05, 2009
The media moguls attending an annual powwow staged by investment bank Allen & Co. used to be able to rest comfortably in the Idaho mountains as they mulled their next moves....
As retailers cut back cities confront 'ghostboxes'
Sunday, July 05, 2009
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.''s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retailer shuttered the underperforming store, leaving a big orange empty eyesore on the outskirts of town....
Biden predicts more jobs because of stimulus money
Sunday, July 05, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration 'misread' the depth of the economic troubles it inherited and still expects more new jobs in the long term as the spending pace from the $787 billion stimulus plan quickens, Vice President Joe Biden said....
