The Treasury Department says more than 100 applications have been received from firms seeking to manage the government program to help purchase toxic securities from banks.

Not long ago the International Monetary Fund seemed headed for relic status. Now it’s once more flying high, rolling out ambitious plans to blanket an economically distressed world in dollars. Even grander designs are on the drawing board.

Officials said a wild hog attacked a woman in the back yard of her home. St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue reported that a 26-year-old woman was told there was a pig in her back yard Monday afternoon. When she went outside to investigate, the 200-pound animal

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued three men from a drifting pleasure boat that had lost power in choppy waters southwest of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A West Virginia bank has become the first to completely cut its ties to the federal government’s $700 billion financial rescue program.

This will be no powder-puff scuffle between the ladies of “Rescue Me.”

Rescuers who hoped to capture a young harbor porpoise that won’t leave a southern New Jersey lagoon have called off their efforts.

Rescuers at southern New Jersey lagoon have called off efforts to capture a young harbor porpoise after determining the mammal’s expertise at evading their nets shows it’s in fine health.

The government said Tuesday it had provided $1.46 billion to 19 banks in the latest payments from its $700 billion financial rescue fund.

Give the White House some time to develop a plan to buy banks’ toxic assets.