The nation's unemployment rate dropped to 7.1% in June, the Labor Department reported today, despite the strike against AT&T; and more job losses in the oil and gas industries.
Four years of hot-blooded competition between the Duke and Georgia Tech classes of 1986 was delivered by that arbiter named fate to a second-string Tech sophomore guard Sunday.
When it comes to fussing, fuming and finger-pointing in black pop music, it's usually the women who are stirring things up.
Viacom International shares tumbled $4 Monday on the New York Stock Exchange amid late-day rumors that the entertainment company would buy out the stake owned by investor Carl C.
A railroad trestle collapsed onto a highway Friday, derailing 26 coal cars and dropping four boxcars onto the roadway, authorities said.
The Mexican peso plummeted to an all-time low at the start of the business day Friday, sending shock waves through an already reeling economy.
Platinum and gold prices Tuesday lost almost half of the gains that they made in Monday's rally.
John Barrett, Notre Dame High baseball coach, expressed pleasure with his team's run production after a seven-run win over Taft last week.
Since Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" is a deeply divided comedy of questionable motivations and rancid aftertastes, it must have seemed like a good idea to lace the production that opened Thursday at the Taper with a punk ethic and a few rumbles of rock.
International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer company, said today that its profit fell 12.9% in the second quarter of the year from a year earlier.
The nation's basic money supply tumbled $4.8 billion in mid-July, the Federal Reserve Board reported Thursday.
The dollar fell against most major currencies in quiet activity Monday as traders sold the U.S. currency to cash in on its sharp gains of the previous week.
San Jose State's Reggie Owens made sure another Cal State Long Beach comeback fell short Monday night as he led the Spartans to a 73-67 victory at Long Beach Arena.
A toddler who wandered into the laundry room of her grandparents' Santa Ana home died after she fell head-first into a bucket of water.
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The dollar fell against most leading currencies in quiet trading Friday, closing near its lows of the day, as interest rates fell in the United States.
Grain and soybean futures prices fell to new lows on the Chicago Board of Trade, as a host of commodity prices came under pressure Tuesday.
Cal State Northridge dropped a men's California Intercollegiate Volleyball Association match, 18-16, 16-14, 15-2, Wednesday at UC Santa Barbara.
The dollar made strong gains against major currencies Tuesday amid falling interest rates in Britain and prospects of higher rates in the United States.
The nation's basic money supply fell $3.1 billion in late December, the Federal Reserve Board reported Thursday.