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SUDBURY, Mass. (AP) — The suburban Boston home where Babe Ruth lived after he had been sent to the New York Yankees is for sale, and the asking price is more than Ruth made in his entire playing career.
The estate known as Home Plate Farm in Sudbu...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio gas prices are hovering about 40 cents below the record highs reached a year ago.
The state's average price for regular gas is $3.76 a gallon in Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wr...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial markets will likely stumble this week after elections in Greece and France cast a pall of uncertainty over Europe's efforts to solve its debt crisis.
On Sunday night, the euro plunged to $1.2988, a nearly five-month low....
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NEW YORK (AP) — Russians prefer their Lay's potato chips dusted in caviar and crab flavors. The Chinese like their Oreos stuffed with mango and orange cream. And in Spain, Kellogg's All-Bran cereal is served floating in hot coffee instead of cold mil...
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NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. will start selling home automation and security services nationwide, taking on incumbents led by Tyco International Ltd.'s ADT.
The installations and services will be sold in AT&T stores, starting with a trial this...
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NEW YORK (AP) — NBCUniversal is planning to sell part of its 15.8-percent ownership in A&E Television Networks to the other partners in the joint venture, Walt Disney Co. and Hearst Co. The deal could be worth about $2 billion.
Comcast Corp., ...
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LONDON (AP) — If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international media conglomerate. Amb...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett worked to reassure shareholders that he's feeling good after his recent prostate cancer diagnosis, and that Berkshire Hathaway is ready to replace the revered 81-year-old investor when the need arises.
Based on th...
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Chrysler is recalling 119,072 cars after discovering that the antilock brake and electronic stability control systems can fail because of an overheated power supply.
The model year 2011 and 2012 Chrysler 300s and Dodge Chargers will have a fuse chan...
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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan university is apologizing after an email intended for 100 students with bad grades instead went to many more, telling them they had been kicked out of school.
Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti isn't sure h...
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CINCINNATI (AP) — A freeze that damaged Ohio vineyards has left grape growers and wine producers dealing with the loss of much of their crop and wine consumers facing the possibility of higher prices.
The executive director of the Ohio Wine Produc...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State agencies providing mental-health and substance-abuse services in Ohio will be merged pending legislative approval into a single agency with a combined 2,500 employees and a budget in excess of $650 million.
The administ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State personal income tax collections in Ohio are up nearly 7 percent more than forecast, giving the state's surplus fund a boost.
For April, when most people file their tax returns, state tax receipts exceeded projections by...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair.
A Jackson County jury...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Campbellsville businessman to 20 years in prison for scamming clients in an oil-and-gas drilling scheme in which investors lost millions of dollars.
U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell sentenced...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's company said Friday its first-quarter profit more than doubled because Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s insurance units avoided major disaster losses and the paper value of its derivative contracts improved.
Berkshire ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The organization in charge of expanding the number of Internet address suffixes — the ".com" part of domain names — is apologizing for delays but says it's favoring "quality, not speed."
Three weeks ago, the Internet Corporatio...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse on Friday said he's cutting his 2012 pay by $3.25 million after shareholder complaints about how his 2011 pay was calculated.
Sprint's board bases the CEO's pay on the company's performance, but departed...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scott Thompson's reign as Yahoo's CEO is in jeopardy after just four months on the job because he allowed an inaccuracy about his academic credentials to recur for years.
A major Yahoo shareholder who exposed the fabrication i...
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — An electric barrier network near Chicago designed to prevent Asian carp and other species from migrating between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River systems had a 13-minute power outage this week, officials said Friday...
