Nation and World
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Motorcycle cop escorting Clinton motorcade dies in crash
Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - DALLAS -- A police motorcycle officer died after a crash while escorting Hillary Rodham Clinton's motorcade to a campaign rally. "We are just heartsick at this loss of l...
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US orders diplomats to leave Serbia
Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The State Department on Friday ordered nonessential diplomats and the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade to leave Serbia, f...
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Employee snooping on customer data is common
Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. -- A landlord snooped on tenants to find out information about their finances. A woman repeatedly accessed her ex-boyfriend's account after a difficult bre...
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Record store owner sells nearly 3M vinyl albums, singles and CDs for $3M
Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - PITTSBURGH -- A man says he can now retire because someone bought his massive record collection on eBay for the asking price -- $3 million. A buyer from Ireland agreed t...
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Microsoft to share product infoFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will share more information about its products and technology to make it work better with rivals' software and meet th...
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Chinese factories lose orders to cheaper markets
Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - SHANGHAI, China -- The teddy bears selling for $1.40 in Shanghai's IKEA store may be just about the cheapest in town, but they're not made in China -- they're stitched a...
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No Delta deal yet
Feb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - ATLANTA -- Northwest Airlines Corp. pilots have integration issues to sort out. Not just the ones with their counterparts at Delta Air Lines Inc. that threaten to scuttl...
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Sharper Image, Lillian Vernon to close shopFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Two catalog retailers, Sharper Image Corp. and Lillian Vernon Corp., have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, hurt by falling sales and worsening cre...
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Pakistan's key opposition parties agree to govern together
Feb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's two main opposition parties announced Thursday they would form a new government together, but skirted the issue of whether they would p...
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Oil investors push price past $101
Feb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oil futures rallied again Wednesday, pushing briefly past $101 a barrel after the Federal Reserve lowered its forecast for economic growth this year, convinc...