The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded an $81 million contract to a Florida company to build a road bridge that will help restore fresh water flows in Everglades National Park, nourishing its ecosystem.
As the lone surviving founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd still in the band, guitarist Gary Rossington says he's profoundly moved by the release of God & Guns, the Southern rock icons' first set of new material in six years.
This year you're not going to get a more exciting or thought-provoking movie filled with memorable characters and dramatic events than More Than a Game. This film from hitherto unknown documentarian Kristopher Belman is a sports movie only in the sense that Errol Morris' The Fog of War is a war movie.
Fidelity National Financial Inc, which controls one of the largest U.S. title insurers, said it will sell Fidelity National Capital Inc to Winthrop Resources Corp, a unit of TCF Financial Corp, to lower debt
A common, nonmalignant tumor of the breast called ductal carcinoma in-situ or DCIS may need a name change because the word carcinoma scares so many women, a U.S. panel of experts said on Thursday.
The U.S. car market should see a modest recovery in 2010, with sales possibly reaching between 11.5 million and 12 million vehicles, General Motors Co Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said on Thursday.
A slew of state and local home foreclosure mediation programs have enormous potential to help homeowners, but most suffer from lack of industry accountability, according to a study released on Wednesday.
When the 49ers were battling the Cardinals in a National Football League game earlier this year, a Facebook update by stun gun maker Taser proclaimed that the San Francisco-based team's Taser formation could be the tipping factor.
A pharmacist asked to provide powerful medications for late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith described the combination of drugs as a prescription for pharmaceutical suicide and refused to fill the order, according to court documents released on Tuesday.
U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday that two former Bear Stearns Cos hedge fund managers facing trial on fraud charges are trying to impede the government's access to documentary evidence.
Documents and personal letters from world leaders provide a glimpse of the back drop to key historical events and a new exhibit highlights several from the defining event of the 20th century -- World War Two.
First Busey Corp expects to breach two of its financial covenants, and to report a third-quarter net loss due to higher provisions for bad loans, sending its shares down 7 percent.
The upcoming park documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, is directed by Ken Burns and will be aired on September 27 by PBS.
UBS AG has formally warned wealthy American clients that their secret Swiss accounts may be revealed to U.S. tax authorities after next Wednesday's expiration of a U.S. amnesty program.
Actor Burt Reynolds has gone public with his battle against an addiction to painkillers, hoping his story will help others in a similar situation.
Dubai World, a Dubai government holding company, filed a lawsuit in the United States this week against the former head of a subsidiary it accuses of fraud costing the United Arab Emirates firm millions of dollars.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he would not make a swift decision on sending more U.S. forces to Afghanistan and set out broad goals for Kabul and neighboring Pakistan to rein in militants and corruption that critics dismissed as vague.
Rap star Kanye West personally apologized on Tuesday to country teen star Taylor Swift after a two-day furor over his hijacking of an awards speech that even drew an off-the-cuff comment from PresidentBarack Obama.
Interest in U.S. real estate by international buyers declined due to the worldwide recession and severe credit crunch, according to the 2009 National Association of Realtors Profile of International Home Buying Activity.
Climate change could cut gross domestic product in countries at a high risk from weather catastrophes by up to a fifth by 2030 unless urgent steps are taken, a report said on Monday.
Following bad weather on Friday, shuttle Discovery had to make a detour and land in California, as opposed to its original planned landing at the Florida base.
Mickey Mouse's house and his Toon Town world will make way next year for a vastly larger Fantasyland, in the biggest-ever expansion of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, Walt Disney Co said on Saturday.
