Archive for December, 2009

Expecting some form of national health care package to surface from Washington, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Tuesday said he’s ordering his staff to conduct a legal review. Responding to request from two Republican state House members...

A “systemic failure” of the nation’s intelligence gathering and analysis allowed a Nigerian man to board a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day in an alleged attempt to blow up an airliner, President Obama said Tuesday. The suspect’s...

More guests are flocking to free hotel breakfasts and buffets, bypassing pricier restaurants, according to a research group that tracks the restaurant industry. The number of free meals or snacks eaten at hotels this year inched up 1% as of Sept. 30 over...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. – As chief financial officer of a top New York advertising agency, Jeff Boose boasted annual pay exceeding $400,000, a spacious office and a lifestyle to match. Boose and his family live in a sprawling house in this affluent suburb,...

America’s oldest teenager, Dick Clark, actually turned 80 in November. Despite lingering effects from a stroke in 2004, the former American Bandstand host will be back to roll in the new year on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’...

FORT WORTH – TCU’s most recent trip to a major bowl was so long ago, Texas was still the largest state in the union. Royce Vick attended that 1959 Cotton Bowl, when the Horned Frogs and Air Force wrestled to a scoreless tie, only months after...

Some of the hottest papers in science didn’t make headlines, says David Pendlebury of Thomson-Reuters, the news and business information firm based in New York, whose analyses regularly appear on the Science Watch website. Tops in being cited by...

Benjamin Franklin’s maxim that “nothing is certain but death and taxes” remains true. But a congressional stalemate has left the federal estate tax, the levy on assets left to heirs, in doubt for at least part of 2010. The tax is poised...

WASHINGTON – Wall Street, commercial banks and an array of other business interests are undertaking an all-out lobbying effort to shape legislation that imposes sweeping government oversight of the financial services industry. The U.S. Chamber of...

Drivers are getting more real-time warnings about traffic congestion as states roll out new or expanded systems over the next four years. New federal rules that could take effect as early as February will give states two years to make such information...