LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Verizon Wireless laid off more former Alltel Corp. headquarters workers Thursday, saying the jobs were redundant after its acquisition of the Arkansas-based...

MONROE, La. (AP) — Telecommunications provider CenturyLink has agreed to add 350 jobs in Louisiana while maintaining its headquarters in the state for at least the next decade.

Gov....

NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands of small business owners...

JARRATT, Va. (AP) — A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press laid off an undisclosed number of news employees Tuesday as part of the cooperative's yearlong plan to cut worldwide payroll expenses by 10...

CHICAGO (AP) — Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicide...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Concur Technologies Inc. said Tuesday its chief financial officer, John Adair, plans to retire during fiscal 2010 to attend to family needs.

Concur's fiscal...

CHICAGO (AP) — As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Principal Financial Group Inc. said Tuesday its president of insurance and financial services will retire at the end of this year.

John Aschenbrenner,...

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — Coldwater Creek Inc. said Tuesday that its chief financial officer, Tim Martin, resigned to take a job at another company.

Martin's resignation is effective...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bill Fisher, son of Gap Inc. founders Doris and Don Fisher, will join the retailer's board to fill the seat left vacant when his father died in September.

The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior House Democrat says the government didn't force Bank of America to take over Merrill Lynch, but a bank board member said much pressure was...

ARLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — Orthopedic device maker Wright Medical Group Inc. said Monday it named Lance A. Berry senior vice president and chief financial officer, replacing outgoing...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Stock market gains mean two trust funds likely will be able to contribute money to help support education and health care in next year's state budget, state Investment...

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A recreational vehicle company based in northern Indiana plans to hire more than 400 workers as it increases production.

Heartland Recreational Vehicles of...

SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.

In a memo sent...

ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Sonny Perdue sent some good economic news home to Georgia from the Dubai Airshow.

Perdue said Monday that Wamar International is expanding its Georgia...

DENVER (AP) — Safeway and King Soopers say they've given union workers their last, best, final contract offer.

Workers represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 were...

NEW YORK (AP) — CF Industries Holdings Inc. said a fatal release of anhydrous ammonia at its Pine Bend, Minn., terminal killed one truck driver and injured another.

Late Monday...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lazard Ltd. on Tuesday appointed Kenneth M. Jacobs as CEO and chairman, choosing a longtime executive at the investment advisory firm to fill vacancies from last...

NEW YORK (AP) — GMAC Financial Services says Alvaro de Molina has stepped down as CEO, a surprise departure that comes as the troubled auto lender remains in negotiations with the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House oversight panel is examining the $45 billion federal bailout of Bank of America Corp. and its shotgun acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. last year at the height...

Bobby Frankel

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bobby Frankel, a gruff Hall of Fame trainer who possessed a gift for coaxing top performances out of ornery, high-strung thoroughbreds, died of...

THOMSON, Ill. (AP) — Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some employers are pressuring workers not to report illnesses and injuries, just one problem that has led to widespread underreporting of workplace safety issues,...

NEW YORK (AP) — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange:

NYSE:

Beazer Homes USA Inc., down 35...

Key events in Comcast Corp.'s history:

1963 — Ralph Roberts buys American Cable Systems, a 1,200-subscriber cable TV operator in Tupelo, Miss., for $500,000.

1969 — Company...

ALRINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — Orthopedic device maker Wright Medical Group Inc. said Monday it named Lance A. Berry senior vice president and chief financial officer, replacing outgoing...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One frustrated client hurled a piece of concrete through the window of a welfare agency. Another threw her car keys at a welfare...

NEW YORK (AP) — As companies hire extra workers for the holidays, some of these seasonal employees are already wondering: How do I turn this temporary position into something permanent?...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Terra Industries Inc. urged shareholders Monday to re-elect its board of directors and reject three people nominated by rival CF Industries Holdings Inc., which has...

NORTHBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Allstate Corp. said Monday that an executive from rival Travelers Cos., Joseph P. Lacher Jr., has been named president of Allstate's property and casualty...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge has denied a request by Cintas Corp. for summary judgment in a 2007 wrongful death lawsuit in Tulsa, a ruling that paves the way for a jury to hear the...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jack in the Box Inc. said Monday it promoted its vice president of operations, Leonard Comma, to be its chief operating officer effective Feb. 1.

In September, the...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Auto financing company Americredit Corp. said Monday it named Robert Sturges, head of Nevada Gold & Casinos Inc., to its board of directors.

Sturges has...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Monday a reorganization of its Electronic Systems business, including appointing a new head of the division, which makes the Aegis...