Derrick Rose, who led his hometown Bulls to the playoffs and restored hope to a franchise in disarray, was the runaway pick as the NBA's rookie of the year. Rose became the third Bulls player to win the award Wednesday, joining Michael Jordan and Elton Brand. Complete Story...
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Tuesday that its first-quarter profit dropped an unexpectedly steep 57 percent and that it was slashing its dividend in hopes of repaying a government investment.
Like his first year in Cleveland, LeBron James' second NBA season ended without a trip to the playoffs. The miss was inexcusable to Cavaliers rookie owner Dan Gilbert, who set out an immediate coaching search so it wouldn't happen again.
President Barack Obama's chief of staff is urging Republicans to step up and offer their own on ideas on how to overhaul health care and energy policy.
"State of Play" looks like a provocative, '70s-style political thriller, and it's the murder of a young woman — a rising congressman's mistress — that drives the narrative.
Wall Street expects businesses slashed their inventories for a sixth consecutive month in February as the recession dragged on.
When great-grandma took a nip of the elderberry wine "for medicinal purposes," she was following a tradition that goes back thousands of years.
Shipping your oil across the Gulf of Aden? Don't forget your piracy insurance.
The pirate standoff with the U.S. Navy has burned Somalia into the West's consciousness as a base for lawlessness and terror, but the hostage crisis illuminates a potentially dangerous picture confronting a far greater area.
Russell Dunham, an Illinois man who was awarded the Medal of Honor after killing nine German soldiers and taking two others captive while wounded during World War II, has died. He was 89.
A 2-ton bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty was carefully hoisted from its permanent home in a Parisian park Monday for a journey through Paris to an exhibit on the city's outskirts.
In a season in which the Connecticut women's basketball team has run through its opponents, it's no surprise the Huskies won both major individual awards.
Geno Auriemma, two wins shy of leading Connecticut to its third unbeaten season, is The Associated Press' college basketball coach of the year for the sixth time.
In a season when the Big East dominated the polls and the NCAA tournament, the Big 12 won both major individual awards.
Bill Self, who led Kansas to the national championship last year and had the Jayhawks back in the title hunt this season, is The Associated Press' college basketball coach of the year.
The Metropolitan Opera's production of "The Elixir of Love" was notable for one absence — of star tenor Rolando Villazon.
Tim O'Neal watched carefully, head down, as his pitch from just off the green rolled perfectly into the cup on the ninth green at Tradition National Golf Course last month.
A minute of silence will be held before international soccer matches Tuesday and Wednesday after 19 fans died in a stadium stampede in the Ivory Coast.
Afghanistan. The banking crisis. Health care. The ailing economy.
Ever wonder how that bill was calculated if you had to pay to see a doctor outside your insurance network?
"The Education of Charlie Banks" marks the surprisingly sensitive directing debut of Fred Durst, the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, whose hits include the oh-so-catchy "Break Stuff."
Analysts saw a glimmer of a silver lining Tuesday in Teradyne Inc.'s slashed forecast for the current quarter, detecting signs that the market for semiconductor testing equipment may be hitting a bottom.
First there was the economy rescue of 2008 — we know how well that worked out. Then a housing rescue that didn't stop foreclosures, a controversial $700 billion Wall Street rescue with mixed results, and of course the auto bailout that's left the fate of Detroit's Big Three in limbo.
- Bank of America Corp CEO Kenneth Lewis testified under oath that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pressured him to keep quiet about losses at Merrill Lynch & Co, which the bank was buying, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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YEHOSHUA'S MESSAGE, 'INHABIT,' THE AUTHENTIC YOU… By: Jerusalem's Yehoshua Ya'acov
Alice Nez Horseherder, a Navajo sheep herder her entire life, lives in Hard Rock, Arizona in the the Black Mesa Region.
The photo es of Norm Coleman show a weary and strained face. Although I did not for him. I do have empathy for his personal turmoil.
A US flagged ship escaped an attack by pirates late on Tuesday after an assault with automatic weapons and rocket fire. Two other boats were captured on Tuesday including a Greek operated merchant vessel and a Lebanese owned freighter.
Kobe Bryant the NBA Basketball player of La Lakers genernerally to be the greatest of his generation.
The number of seats are 543 out of which general,SC and ST seats are 423,79 and 41 only.(source Election commission)The article of constitution provides the maximum number of seats in Loksabha and also about the number of Anglo Indian Community and prescribes age limit 25 years. …
Evidence that our stock market investors, shoppers, and home buyers are now less nervous than before. It's good news.
Police have arrested a Sunday-school teacher in the killing of California 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, authorities said early Saturday" Melissa Huckaby was arrested on charges of kidnapping and murder, according to Tracy, California, police Sgt. Tony Sheneman"
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Not only is boxed ammunition scarce, the components used by people with reloading equipment who do their own custom reloading is also scarce.
The Bottom of the market is still coming!!! The Banks today are still not dealing with toxic shock they have on the books. Watch this video to learn more!
I always heard on this.China is opening up and too is India.The brains in these countries mostly are settled outside or they are on a big pay roll. If one counts these countries annual per capita income and GDP ,it tells a different stories.If in US 7.5 lakhs are jobless,think a …
The stage is being set in Euorpe for some sweeping changes. There will be a revision of the old Roman empire and will rule and control the world.
Will your next battery be genetically engineered? Viruses can be used to assemble tiny batteries that can then be printed on plastic films, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers claim.
A neighbour of Robert Dziekanski's back in Poland says he was excited to come to Canada, the land of `milk and honey.'
State of the Union The Third and Final Fictive Essay, following My Lunch with President-Elect Obama and The Meeting in the Annex Ed Cowan
Laurie Higgins from the Illinois Family Institute has stated that she believes that it is more beneficial for children to miss school and learning than to be subjected to learning about a civil rights reality.
The family of Michael vann Hubbard, the homeless man who was shot dead by police a week ago in downtown Vancouver, plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Vancouver Police Department in the next couple of weeks, said their spokesman on Thursday.
Mystery of death 3-26-09 Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 What is death? Can it be as that 17 year old child boards his first plane out of the U.S. bound for the eternal play land for U.S.
For those twitterwits out there that thought Mr. Henry got shot down, lets do the math here. Hussein is a sitting President of the United States which pretty much makes him the most informed individual on the planet, what with his morning, noon and night briefings.
If the world would study history; then there would be no argument about who has the real Christian faith and the true religion.