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The '80s brought us mullets, crimped looks, and heavy loads of hairspray. The bigger the better. While we may wish to forget some of the do's, some pulled off hair-raising styles. Next week, National Geographic is airing...

An oil flood through an Arkansas subdivision on March 29 is just the most recent example of pipeline problems in the U.S. In recent weeks, months and years diesel has leaked from a pipeline into wetlands near Salt Lake C...

JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson is out of the company, according to CNBC, after just 17 months on the job. His Q4 2012 was probably the worst quarterly performance ever in the history of major retail: same-store sales were down...

Boeing's Dreamliner 787 has been out of service since January, when the FAA grounded it after the battery systems in two planes failed in quick succession. While the batteries may not be up to par, the 787 is capable of ...

Penis size is an important factor in male attractiveness, a new study suggests. It's as important as height and more important than shoulder-to-hip ratios, the study says. Of course, this is a kind of weird study, becaus...

Roger Ebert passed away Thursday at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. Sunday, The Chicago Sun Times published his final film review to his web site. Jim Emerson, who edits Ebert's site, tweeted the review of Terren...

After a tumultuous run as CEO, Ron Johnson is officially out at JCPenney. And it looks like he got a huge chunk of change if he was fired or voluntarily resigned. According to the company's most recent SEC filings earlie...

(NEW YORK) -- J.C. Penney is naming Mike Ullman as its new CEO. He takes over from Ron Johnson, who is leaving the company. Ullman was head of the department store chain, based in Plano, Texas, prior to Johnson's appoint...

J.C. Penney's board of directors has ousted CEO Ron Johnson after only 16 months on the job as a risky turnaround strategy backfired and led to massive losses and steep sales drops.

J.C. Penney is naming Mike Ullman as its new CEO. He takes over from Ron Johnson, who is leaving the company.

Already months behind schedule, federal regulators charged with establishing the rules to implement new online crowdfunding portals still cannot say when they will issue those guidelines. On Monday, the resulting frustra...

Steven Spriggs was stopped in a traffic jam near downtown Fresno and thought nothing of whipping out his iPhone 4 and clicking on the map feature to see if there...

Ready for the battle of the phones? This year's crop of high-end smartphones is starting to emerge, like bear cubs crawling out of their burrows, sniffing the spring air. First...

J.C. Penney shares are likely to be active on Tuesday after the company replaces beleaguered CEO Ron Johnson with former-CEO Mike Ullman.

As you've no doubt heart a lot today, the late Margaret Thatcher was something of a controversial figure. That controversy will likely be played out on the front pages of U.K.'s newspapers tomorrow. Here's how the major ...

Stocks ended modestly higher Monday, shrugging off an early decline, as investors waited to see whether big U.S. companies would deliver on expectations of strong earnings in 2013.

Ron Johnson is no longer chief executive of J.C. Penney, and will be replaced by his predecessor, Myron E. Ullman III.

Stocks ended modestly higher Monday, shrugging off an early decline, as investors waited to see whether big U.S. companies would deliver on expectations of strong earnings in 2013.

Shares of J.C. Penney Co. are up in after-hours trading on a report that the department store's chief executive Ron Johnson is leaving.

CNBC is reporting that Ron Johnson has been ousted as CEO at JC Penney, and will be replaced by his predecessor, Mike Ullman. It's a move that's not unexpected after huge losses, strategic missteps, and a 97 percent pay ...

Weight concerns airlines, mainly those with small planes like Samoa Air, which is charging fares based on a passenger's weight. Other airlines are cutting weight, too, which saves on fuel costs.

A team at UC Berkeley has discovered an mass-marketable way of measuring brainwaves and using them to replace passwords.