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Alaska State Rep. Chris Tuck is running TV ads telling people they can skip the new body scanners at Alaska airports and should call airport police if the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) gets too frisky.

Gold prices rose Tuesday with other commodities and global equities on unexpected signs the U.S. housing market is turning around and continued improvement in the Eurozone.

Shares of gold and silver miners soared Tuesday after a surprisingly strong U.S. housing report sparked a global move toward risky assets that lifted equities, commodities and the euro.

The Dallas County Medical Examiner has ruled the death of 22-year-old Elizabeth Lightfoot an accident instead of homicide, according to the autopsy report released Monday. The North Dallas hairdresser's charred body was found dead in her burning car on Nov. 4.

Gold prices rose more than 1 percent and silver popped nearly 2 percent Tuesday on fresh evidence the struggling U.S. housing industry is recovering plus rising German business sentiment that boosted investors' risk appetite.

Shares of silver mining companies got hammered Monday as the futures price of the metal fell on dimming prospects from China and Europe that next year will bring any improvement in demand.

Prices for silver and palladium, the two precious metals with the most industrial applications, fell Monday on growing evidence of weakening demand from China and a possible recession in Europe.

South American Silver Corp. said Monday its Escalones copper-gold-silver project in central Chile has inferred resources of 610,000 ounces of gold and 16.8 million ounces of silver.

Flash floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Washi in the Philippines killed at least 684 people over the weekend.

Striking workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's giant Indonesian mine delayed on Saturday until next week a plan to go back to work after a three-month strike because of technical issues, a union spokesman said.

Gold prices hovered in a tight range Monday as doubts that Eurozone banks have enough access to cash and the uncertainties about the severity of the continent's recession offset physical demand from Asian buyers.

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A consortium of private equity group Silver Lake, software giant Microsoft Corp and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are reworking their bid for a minority stake in Internet company Yahoo Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

A consortium of software giant Microsoft Corp., private-equity group Silver Lake, and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are reworking their bid for a minority stake in Internet company Yahoo Inc., a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Gold found a bottom to bounce off Friday as investors, especially those focused on bullion, responded to the bargains emerging from this week's huge price drops.

Been wondering where you can hock that spare cow you have sitting around? Look no further than the Silver Dollar Pawn & Jewelry Center in Alexandria, La., the setting for the History Channel's spin-off of its most popular series, Pawn Stars.

Chile-focused Cerro Grande Mining Corp., which produces gold, silver and copper, swung to a profit in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 on lower costs and higher sales.

Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's head of space operations said on Thursday.

Residents in the British city of Coventry were left puzzled when approximately 100 apples fell from the sky, over the Keresley area of the city, at 7 p.m. GMT, on Monday.

Gold prices extended losses to a fourth session Thursday but the decline was far less than the previous day's plunge as weaker crude oil prices offset support from dollar weakness.

Here is a list of the 10 biggest silver-producing mines in the world, based on available 2010 data.