President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
General Motors moved a step closer to selling its Hummer brand Friday when it announced that it had signed a definitive agreement with a Chinese manufacturer.
President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
All 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children will stay open, but some eventually might become outpatient-only surgery facilities, the system that offers free specialty pediatric care said Thursday.
Members of the Shriners fraternity voted Monday to withdraw a measure that would have closed six of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children, representatives of some of the facilities said.
The five remaining defendants in the racially charged "Jena Six" case will appear in court Friday and are expected to enter a plea, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said.
President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
General Motors moved a step closer to selling its Hummer brand Friday when it announced that it had signed a definitive agreement with a Chinese manufacturer.
President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
All 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children will stay open, but some eventually might become outpatient-only surgery facilities, the system that offers free specialty pediatric care said Thursday.
Members of the Shriners fraternity voted Monday to withdraw a measure that would have closed six of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children, representatives of some of the facilities said.
The five remaining defendants in the racially charged "Jena Six" case will appear in court Friday and are expected to enter a plea, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said.
The swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, is all over the news. A string of cases have been reported across the United States, as well as across the globe, with Mexico the hardest hit country, so far.
Saying they'll cut costs is the easy part. Now, in order to stave off bankruptcy, comes the hard part: General Motors must axe 23,000 people and decide which plants to keep open, and which to permanently shut down.
Officials in the tiny east Texas town of Tenaha are accused in a federal lawsuit of stopping African-Americans driving through town and seizing their money and property by threatening them with criminal prosecution -- or worse.
Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle Richard Collier was shot and critically wounded outside an apartment building early Tuesday as he and a former Jacksonville teammate waited for two women they had met at a nightclub
Tens of thousands of residents from Louisiana and Mississippi flocked Monday to dozens of inland shelters where they sought refuge from Hurricane Gustav.
General Motors Corp. said Monday it will cut production by another 117,000 vehicles, citing continued weak in consumer demand for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles
General Motors Corp. told dealers Monday it plans to raise prices on 2009 models by an average of 3.5% despite a tough market that is forcing the automaker to cut production and discount its 2008 models
Dear FSB: I am looking to invest $25,000 in a small fast-food restaurant franchise. According to the EBITDA over five years my initial membership interest and initial sharing ratio is only 3.05%. Is this a common practice?
NEW ORLEANS -- The NBA came here to help rescue a city, and what did Paul McCartney say about that kind of work? The love you take is equal to the love you make.
A man has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck during a civil rights march last year in Jena, Louisiana.
General Motors announced Tuesday that it would invest $73 million to outfit its Shreveport, La. factory to build a new Hummer pickup called the Hummer H3T.
Hike up those pants. Droopy drawers that bare skin or underwear might soon be forbidden fashion on the streets of several cities, and violators could be forced to part with some cash.
Picture this: A rotund, theatrical politician from Harlem and a wiry, introverted policy-wonk from Shreveport sitting elbow to elbow on the House floor, shuffling between each other's offices, passing paper between staffs. Two men from opposite ends of the political spectrum, they are joined in secrecy on a project that just about everyone else in Washington considers doomed to failure. Charlie Rangel and Jim McCrery are on a mission to rescue Social Security from bankruptcy.
Jessica Simpson celebrated her 27th birthday at a beach house Tuesday, but moved the gathering to her parents' home after the sand got too crowded - with photographers.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's daughter Suri is not only well dressed, she's well mannered. After visiting a Shreveport, La., children's store recently, the 1-year-old (with a little help from her mom) sent the owners a thank-you note - on her very own embossed stationery.
The brave women and men who serve as United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers perform courageous, lifesaving feats every day. Clocking in at a "Waterworld"-ly 139 minutes, "The Guardian" catalogs every one of them.
bedrooms, a big garage and a small backyard for their baby Johanna, eight months, to play in. For Daniel, 26, a doctor in his second year of residency at LSU Hospital, and Elizabeth, just 22, it was a dream come true. ...
A Texas death row inmate who escaped last week from a Houston jail and was taken into custody Sunday night outside a liquor store in Shreveport, Louisiana, is back in Texas, a court official told CNN late Monday.
On Aug. 18, Elizabeth and Daniel Dillon closed the deal on their newly constructed $225,000 house in Shreveport, La. Part of a pristine new development on the outskirts of town, the house had four ...
Hurricane Katrina wrought untold amounts of damage. But nationally, what is considered to be the largest natural disaster in U.S. history may not devastate or significantly alter companies' hiring plans in the fourth quarter.
On the 10th floor of a New Orleans high-rise, Michael Barnett, crisis manager at DirectNic, is blogging (www.mgno.com) about his co-workers' efforts to keep the Internet service provider online through the hurricane and its aftermath.
Allen Guthrie could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw his son's modest three-bedroom home in Jefferson Parish that was torn apart by Hurricane Katrina.
Trading stocks is easy and fun, right? But frequent traders earn less than buy-and-hold investors, and they have dramatically higher costs, as Patrick James learned the hard way.
FACTORIES ONCE were America's forte. The ones on these pages suggest they could be again. The companies that operate them -- Timken, AT&T, Hoover, Milliken, and Worthington -- have much in common. ...
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