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Keeping gutters and downspouts clear is the first defense against soil erosion.Keeping gutters and downspouts clear is the first defense against soil erosion.

Noted investor Warren Buffett continues to decry airline investing even though he didn?t lose any money on his most famous airline investment.

Increasingly, the authorities say, criminals are using expensive artworks -- bought and sold in secret and with little regulation -- to hide ill-gotten profits.

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The Supreme Court said Monday that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto Co.'s patents on soybean seeds resistant to its weed-killer by growing the beans without buying new seeds from the corporation.

A federal judge approved a $40 million class-action settlement Monday between Skechers USA Inc. and consumers who bought toning shoes after ads made unfounded claims that the footwear would help people lose weight and st...

British Prime Minister David Cameron, in DC to meet with President Barack Obama, told reporters today that Syria's history was being written in the blood of her people -- and that it's happening on our watch. It's hard t...

WASHINGTON -- Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted, even after...

Bloomberg Chief Executive Daniel L. Doctoroff admitted that giving its journalists access to some subscriber information for its data terminals was "a mistake."

Activists shareholders pushing JPMorgan Chase & Co. to strip Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon of one of his job titles scored a major victory earlier...

Cliff Kluge, a Georgia resident who loves finding and selling antiques, thinks he may have stumbled on a huge treasure: a copy of Coca-Cola's top...

Not every retiree has to be frugal. Here are 25 top places to retire in the U.S. if money is no object.

Directors have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to act with due care and in good faith. A fiduciary has a high standard of care that requires that informed decisions be made honesty and fairly.

More than two thirds of manufacturers are having difficulty finding skilled employees. We cannot stand by hoping someone else will solve our skills gap crisis. Industry, government and educators need to work together to ...

High-tech companies looking to bring more skilled workers to the U.S. pushed Monday for more concessions in an immigration bill pending in the Senate. Labor unions said the Silicon Valley...

Richard Branson lost a bet in 2010, and finally made good on his promise to don heavy makeup and full drag. His sense of humor is a lesson to all founders and CEOs!

Rocket Internet announced Namshi, its Middle Eastern online fashion retailer, has raised $13 million led by Summit Partners to sustain growth.

Guest Post It is high time for people to stop thinking of philanthropy and profit as competing or mutually exclusive. They are often symbiotic

Twitter has acquired data visualization startup Lucky Sort, possibly to bolster its ad sales and reporting tools.

Stan Cox is a lot of things. At the Kansas-based Land Institute, he's a senior scientist and plant breeder, working on perennial sorghum (tangentially, if you don't know anything about the Land Institute's efforts to tur...

Guest Post If that sounds bad, how about half of your company for $90K? Crazy? No. This is the reality in many places outside of Silicon Valley (and especially outside the US). And it isn't good.

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A major insurance company has bought out a nonprofit home for struggling women in Cincinnati in a deal announced Monday, ending a bitter two-year court battle over the home's historic property in a bea...