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Firefighters in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood are battling a massive five-alarm fire near AT&T Park, NBC Bay Area is reporting. San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Mindy Talmadge told AP the building wa...

Sports Illustrated will release its "NCAA Tournament Preview" issue this week and the cover will look familiar to college basketball fans. The cover features Doug McDermott of Creighton standing behind two Creighton chee...

Mobile robots and "smart" computers are threatening to replace up to half the U.S. workforce within the next decade or two, according to a Bloomberg report.  The report cites an Oxford University study that identified m...

A study to be released Wednesday about the world’s oldest profession concludes that the lucrative underground commercial sex economy in eight large U.S. metropolitan areas brings in anywhere from $40 million annually t...

Billionaire tech entrepreneur, investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban spoke at South by Southwest on Saturday. He told the audience that the greatest life lesson he's learned came from his father. It's to have fu...

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Titan is in discussions with potential partners in Singapore and Dubai, and hopes to begin exports in the year starting April

Car makers are desperately trying to add modern technology that won't become immediately obsolete to their new vehicles. Apple may have the best solution, writes Andre Mouton.

The agency that oversees public transportation in Chicago is suing American Airlines for falsely claiming to buy "vast amounts of jet fuel" from a small office in a rural community to avoid paying tens of millions of dol...

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Groupon's CFO Jason Child paid $2.52 million last month for a six-bedroom, 7,600-square-foot house in Oak Brook before putting his five-bedroom house in Hinsdale on the market for $1.845 million.

Chinese officials may have satellite images of debris that could be from the Malaysia Airlines 777 jet that's been missing for five days.  According to CNN, a China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Ind...

The murder of a 28-year-old bar manager named Kitty Genovese 50 years ago this week is one of America's most famous crimes, appearing in psychology textbooks as a classic example of the "bystander effect." As The New Yor...

NEW YORK (AP) -- When a small business can boast having big clients like Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble, their peers often want to know how they did it.     

The suburban, car-loving, McMansion-owning parents of millennials represent Costco's core customer base. But what about millennials themselves?

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A 24-hour strike by civil servants disrupted public services in Greece Wednesday as the country's government struggled to hammer out a deal on further austerity measures with international creditor...

The biggest raise in 21 years answers a call by the Japanese government to bolster the economy by sharing its surging profit with employees.     

The price of oil dropped below $99 a barrel Wednesday as the possibility of a deeper economic slowdown in China fed expectations of weaker demand.     

HELSINKI (AP) -- Swedish truck maker AB Volvo enjoyed strong sales in the fourth quarter, but its earnings were hurt by extra costs linked to the launch of new products, write-downs and restructuring charges.     

GENEVA (AP) -- The global airlines industry has lowered its profit forecast for 2014 due to rising jet fuel prices, but says Venezuela's financial policy, Ukraine's political upheaval and a vanished Malaysian jetliner ad...

What's making Plug Power run? Investor expectation of a big run-up in orders.

Errico Auricchio produced cheese with his family in Italy until he brought his trade to the United States more than 30 years ago. Now, the European Union is saying his cheese isn't authentic enough to carry a European na...