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Say what you will about New York Giants running back David Wilson and his penchant for fumbling, but the man can do some unreal celebrations. Here he is after scoring the opening touchdown against the Philadelphia Eagles...

A 9-year-old boy boarded a Delta plane from Minneapolis to Las Vegas without a ticket on Thursday.  During the flight, the crew grew suspicious because the young boy was not on their list of minors traveling alone.  T...

Investors around the world have retreated from risk before. But this time is different.

Slivers of light illuminate Lincoln farmer Bob Warren as he examines his canopy of Kelly green leaves and lima bean vines, twirling expertly into a nearly 20-foot tunnel.

In its push for $1.2 million in incentives per year, the company hires a team with influence at City Hall and Springfield The ADM push may stand out, however, with the firm hiring an A-list team of influence wielders at ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The developing countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China recovered quickly from the financial crisis five years ago. Their spending helped keep a global recession from becoming a global depression.  ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- To understand why people are so cautious with their money five years after the financial crisis, The Associated Press interviewed consumers around the world. Here is what one person said:   �...

Working at St. Mary's Hospital was all about making do. When supply shelves emptied, respiratory therapist Lori-Ann Ligon made frantic calls to compatriots at nearby medical centers, arranging meetings on the fly to bart...

Vivian Leite needed a new suitcase to tote $5,000 worth of goods from her one-week U.S. shopping trip back home to South America.

Samsung's new smart watch, the Galaxy Gear, may be getting poor reviews, but the commercial for the gadget is pretty sweet. The Gear is an Android-powered watch that connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth. It shows incom...

Perhaps the most interesting implication here is that biopharma's success is likely to depend their ability to "pick the winners," and more upon their learning how to lose less painfully, and fail fast, cheap, and often.

With less than two weeks to go until the Debt Ceiling is breached, there's a lot of talk about the risk of a U.S. "default" and what happens if the U.S. does default. Unfortunately, there's a lot of sloppiness about the ...

In one of the most shocking in-season NFL trades in recent history, the Cleveland Browns traded Trent Richardson to the Indianapolis Colts for a 1st-round draft pick three weeks ago. The NFL world took it as a sign the B...

Wall Street weathered the first week of the shutdown with relatively little damage, but Washington's budget impasse might be harder to shake this week, even as investors turn their attention to the kickoff of earnings se...

Federal regulations are loosening to offer more benefits to same-sex married couples around the nation, but not so in Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration is complicating how couples can get those federal ...

Federal regulations are loosening to offer more benefits to same-sex married couples around the nation, but not so in Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration is complicating how couples can…

Battery caught fire after running over a piece of metal; Musk says it would have been worse in a gasoline-powered car.

The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.     

It Is A Mistake To Delegate The Responsibility Of Connecting With Your End Consumers To Someone Else according to Honest Tea's Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff.

Recent polls show that a majority of Americans would prefer to delay or terminate implementation of the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), AKA Obamacare. While some citizens certainly oppose the law fo...

Simply word vomiting your expertise on a blog or website doesn't make you a thought leader. Readers won't flock to your content just because you've written it. By its very definition, thought leadership requires you to b...

A customer service initiative, whether it's formal and assisted by customer service consultants (yep, such as yours truly), informal (your organization designs and executes the initiative itself], or anywhere in between...