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After slashing inventory and cutting expenses, the retail industry is still bracing for the largest overall quarterly profit decline in at least nine years when merchants report their first-quarter earnings this week.
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Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state’s ban.
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A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring at least 17, including three seriously, an emergency official said.
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Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the...
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Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.
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Emergency officials say a carnival ride has collapsed at a fairgrounds, injuring three people severely.
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The federal government isn’t used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.
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A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.
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An Illinois appellate court ruled Friday that the city of Chicago cannot be held liable for a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people and injured dozens more.
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When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch were pregnant or had...
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Several bodies have been found in a northern New Jersey home under circumstances that were not immediately clear to authorities.
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Former Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and an early backer of Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined a noisy rally for Barack Obama on Friday...
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Going potty without a partner can lead to punishment for students at a Burgaw elementary school, but parents want the policy flushed.
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A Brown University student says she’s been suspended for hitting a New York Times columnist with a pie during an Earth Day speech.
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Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment...
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Investors stripped nearly a fifth off the value of Pioneer Corp. on Wednesday, the day after the troubled Japanese electronics company warned it is heading for a fifth...
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FedEx is cutting its fourth-quarter guidance, blaming a steep increase in fuel costs.
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Citigroup says its is aiming for 9 percent revenue growth as it looks to rebound from recent struggles tied to deterioration in the mortgage and credit markets.
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The government on Tuesday again raised its short-term price forecasts for crude oil and gasoline _ trends that are expected to tamp down demand.
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Starbucks Corp. warned Wednesday that its second-quarter earnings would fall short of analysts’ expectations due to the weak U.S. economy and the cost of its...
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The odds the country will fall into its first recession since 2001 are rising sharply.
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Tribune Company CEO Sam Zell says he’s considering selling some of the media conglomerate’s assets because of worse-than-expected revenue.
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Frontier Airlines, the latest airline to file for bankruptcy, was pushed over the brink by a problem that could spread to other carriers: credit card troubles.
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AP, Wilmington
DuPont is raising its first-quarter estimates to about $1.29 per share from $1.14 to $1.19 per share just last month.
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UPS shares fell 3 percent Wednesday, a day after the world’s largest shipping company cut its first-quarter earnings forecast because of higher fuel costs, a...
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The world economy will slow sharply this year, according to an International Monetary Fund forecast, with the United States sliding into a recession amid housing,...
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United Parcel Service Inc., the world’s largest shipping carrier, cut its first-quarter profit guidance Tuesday, citing lower volume and higher fuel costs in the...
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Personal navigation device maker TomTom NV shocked the market with a profit warning on Tuesday, blaming weak pricing power and European retailers for stocking fewer of...
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In an April 7 story about Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s guidance, The Associated Press reported erroneously that AMD’s sales for the first quarter of 2008...
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Shares in navigation device maker TomTom NV fell sharply Tuesday after the company cut financial estimates for 2008, citing weak demand despite lower prices.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s plans to jettison 10 percent of its work force are the latest sign that the seesaw battle between semiconductor rivals Intel Corp....
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Battered by product delays and acquisition costs, beleaguered chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Monday that it will jettison 10 percent of its work force and...
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Lower-than-expected sales have driven chip maker Advanced Micro Devices to reduce its revenue outlook for the first quarter and begin trimming its 16,000-person...
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The slowing U.S. economy and surging jet fuel prices have forced an international trade group to lower its outlook on airline profits for the second time in four...
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In this Jan. 15, 2008 file photo, the Citigroup Center is shown in New York. Citigroup Inc. on Friday, May 9, 2008 said it is aiming for 9 percent revenue growth as it looks to rebound from recent struggles tied to deterioration in the mortgage and...
