First of all, police said he was speeding. Second, the 18-year-old wasn’t wearing a seat belt and was driving on a suspended license. But that was the least of his troubles. According to police, when the man was pulled over on Tuesday they found a marijua

The bailout is now the hottest lobbying game in town.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil _ Four miles under the ocean’s surface off Brazil’s lush coast lie billions of barrels of recently discovered light crude _ a treasure that could transform the country into an oil superpower.

After ConAgra Foods’ board slashed the company’s dividend by 34 percent as part of a restructuring plan, a few shareholders suggested the board should also feel the pain and slash its own pay by roughly one-third.Not surprisingly, the suggestion...

The storms that have lashed Oregon’s scenic coast this winter have dredged up an unusual array of once-buried secrets: old shipwrecks, historic cannons, ghost forests _ even strangely shaped iron deposits.One of the first ships to emerge from the sands...

More than a mile beneath an area of Appalachia covering parts of four states lies a mostly untapped reservoir of natural gas that could swell U.S. reserves.Geologists and energy companies have known for decades about the gas in the Marcellus Shale, but...