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Oil prices fell below $97 per barrel Monday just days after spiking above $100. Last week’s surge continued to ripple through global pipelines, however, as […]

When oil prices briefly topped $100 a barrel last week, motorists had flashbacks to the bad old days of 2008.
That’s when gasoline prices soared to […]

The U.N.’s top human rights body is preparing to hold an emergency meeting on Libya to decide whether to condemn and ostracize the North African […]

All across the nation, teachers are coming under attack.
Hundreds of thousands of school employees — teachers, as well as aides, school nurses, librarians, administrators […]

World shares fell sharply Tuesday, battered by ongoing unrest in the Arab world as the price of oil soared, sending airline stocks into a nosedive.
Crude […]

Forget the Internet or the food processor

Legence Bank has received regulatory approval to buy two bank branches in Southern Illinois from MidCountry Bank.
The branches, located at 502 North Commercial Street in […]

What Intel CEO Paul Otellini said would rejuvenate his company, Cisco CEO John Chambers thinks could kill everything in its path.
At the Mobile World […]

The funding grants nobody wants. The "mobile" policing unit that doesn’t get around much. How about the big fancy telescope that has been mismanaged?
President […]

Profits at construction and mining giant Leighton Holdings Ltd. fell 25 percent to 218 million Australian dollars ($218 million) in the second half of 2010 […]