With all the talk about the stimulus creating jobs, one might be tempted to think things are getting better. ...more

November 5, 2009

A federal judge in Miami has lifted an injunction that prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from building a 1-mile bridge on a road through the Everglades. ...more

June 18, 2009

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a potential blockbuster drug from Johnson & Johnson that fights three forms of arthritis caused by immune-system deficiencies. ...more

April 24, 2009

The chairman of AIG has told Congress he's asked executives to give back their bonuses. The chief executive officer of the failed insurance conglomerate acknowledged Wednesday that the company's multimillion-dollar bonuses were "distasteful" to many and had provoked a firestorm of wrath. "I share that anger," Edward Liddy, chairman and CEO of the American International Group Inc., said in testimony prepared for Congress. ...more

March 18, 2009

Bernard Madoff has yet to face the many investors he is accused of ripping off in a jaw-dropping Ponzi scheme that amounted to one of the biggest financial frauds in history. ...more

March 9, 2009

Despairing investors keep unloading stocks, and there are no signs that the selling will end anytime soon. ...more

February 21, 2009

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford has been found in Virginia and served with legal papers in a multibillion-dollar fraud case. ...more

February 20, 2009

Joel Toro of Tampa thought he was set for life. Then the phone rang last month. ...more

February 6, 2009

The National Football League's multibillion-dollar celebration of its own opulence has gained a pervasive hold on American life since it came into existence 43 years ago. ...more

February 1, 2009

The economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as the deepening recession forced consumers and businesses to throttle back spending. ...more

January 30, 2009