Bank may be the dirtiest of four-letter words these days. A close second is the acronym TARP. Several top banks have taken billions of dollars in government aid from the Troubled Asset Recovery Program during the past few months but there has been little evidence that they have used the funds to boost lending to consumers and businesses.
The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88
Cargill announces it's scrapping plans for a $200 million ethanol plant near Topeka, Kan. A judge approves the bankruptcy sale of an unfinished ethanol plant in Canton, Ill.. And that was just Tuesday.
Bank may be the dirtiest of four-letter words these days. A close second is the acronym TARP. Several top banks have taken billions of dollars in government aid from the Troubled Asset Recovery Program during the past few months but there has been little evidence that they have used the funds to boost lending to consumers and businesses.
The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88
Cargill announces it's scrapping plans for a $200 million ethanol plant near Topeka, Kan. A judge approves the bankruptcy sale of an unfinished ethanol plant in Canton, Ill.. And that was just Tuesday.
The United States honored its military dead Monday with speeches from its politicians, parades led by its heroes and outdoor celebrations featuring family and food.
This past Saturday morning I found myself in a five-car caravan cutting across the Kansas plains with about 30 religious protesters. In the back of a truck, there were signs that read "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
Sports Brand Meat Branding Iron, $30 Sure, you can wear your favorite team's logo, but now, thanks to Topeka entrepreneur Ed Shamburg, you can eat it too. Similar to a cattle brand, his stainless-s...
It costs more to own a car in Detroit, an amazing $11,844 a year for a mid-sized sedan, than in any other city in the country, according to a new report comparing the cost of car ownership in various a U.S. cities.
There she was, just like I remembered her. Sure, 29 years older, but she had that same smile. And the same curly, blonde hairstyle. I'd spent many an algebra class staring at that hair.
Before Lisa Montgomery was arrested and charged with kidnapping resulting in death, she and her husband showed the abducted infant to people in their Kansas town, residents said Saturday.
The father of a baby girl cut from her mother's womb after the mother was slain called his daughter "a miracle" at their first meeting, according to a statement from a hospital in Kansas.
Authorities late Friday said a Kansas woman who had a miscarriage earlier this year confessed to strangling a pregnant Missouri woman in her home and then cutting the baby from her womb -- a crime the local sheriff described as the most gruesome he had ever seen.
Authorities believe an infant girl found at the home of a Kansas woman is the same baby taken from her mother's womb Thursday after the mother was killed in Missouri.
Rod Paige remembers it all too well -- the all-white school, two miles down the road from his own school in Monticello, Mississippi. The school that had everything his didn't. Two miles away, he says, that might as well have been 200.
Is there such a thing as a FORTUNE cover curse? Despite a few CEOs who inevitably toppled after we showed their mugs, the anecdotal evidence suggests not. Bill Gates, for instance, has been on the ...
After 13 years of legal back-and-forth, the trial that promises to be one of the most sensational in business history has begun in a Topeka federal courtroom. Koch v. Koch not only pits brother aga...
I've got a few messages for you. While you were out, Bob Gerber called. The format incompatibility that's been blocking your e-mail transmissions of graphical spreadsheet material to corporate head...
If summer surf or sand have ever caused your camera to malfunction, you may want to shop the new generation of lightweight, weatherproof point-and-shoot models costing $79 to $750. Among the best i...
Your April Editor's Notes, ''The Empty Promise of Annuities,'' seems to be a damnation of all annuities. You tell us how Vincent Triglia suffered because of the collapse of Executive Life. But Exec...
AT THE CLOSE of business Friday, November 30, Dennis Irby's biggest worry was making sure his eight employees were delivering the finest bouquets in Valdosta, Georgia. By Monday morning his father,...
If annuities were Isuzus, they would open hyperbolic new vistas to the little cars' mendacious TV pitchman. At first glance, single-premium deferred annuities seem to deliver everything risk-averse...
One of the safest, surest ways to build a bundle in mutual funds is by using the technique called dollar-cost averaging -- investing fixed amounts at regular intervals over a span of years. You acq...
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