Bank of America ready to settle securities probes

Bank of America Corp. said Friday it is ready to settle federal and state investigations into sales of risky auction-rate securities, joining eight other big investment banks that have agreed to buy back a ...

Alert resident finds missing 80-year-old Lafayette man

Jeff Glickman was spending Thursday evening cooped up in his home. He had been feeling under the weather for the past few days.

Students in central China riot

THOUSANDS of students attacked a county government office in central China, smashing windows and clashing with riot police, in unrest triggered by a property dispute, a rights group said on Saturday.

First Person: Helping Haitian Flood Victims

The first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of Gonaives, Haiti on Friday.

Students in central China riot over property dispute

Thousands of students attacked a county government office in central China, smashing windows and clashing with riot police, in unrest triggered by a property dispute, a rights group said on Saturday.

DPRK greets 60th national birthday with joy

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is prevailed with a happy atmosphere with people busy preparing for the country's 60th national birthday which falls on Sept.

Narrow Zyprexa Class Certified, Sealed Files Released

A federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., has certified a class of "third-party payors," such as pension funds, labor unions and insurance companies, in their claim that the drug giant Eli Lilly committed fraud by ...

Speedy Tropical Storm Hanna charges for Carolinas

Tropical Storm Hanna cruised toward the Carolinas on Friday, forecast to hit land overnight and promising to deliver gusty winds and heavy rain during a dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the ...

Rice meets Gadhafi on historic visit to Libya

The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday ...

First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city

U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded city, where tens of ...