Posted: 4:57 PM BP is reiterating claims first made last April that it is entitled to payment from contractor Halliburton Energy Services for expenses and lost profits resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well disaster.
Posted: 4:43 PM The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 180 points, or 1.5 percent, at 12,397 Tuesday.
Posted: 11:48 PM After hitting a 30-year low in 2009, U.S. auto sales are poised for a second straight year of growth.
Posted: 6:00 PM An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape chest-deep snow.
Posted: 4:22 PM ndependent groups called super political action committees have spent millions on television ads and mailings to boost their favored candidates in Iowa and maim those candidates' rivals.
Posted: 11:16 PM Gasoline followed oil higher this year, with an average for the year of $3.52 per gallon - the highest ever.
Posted: 9:57 PM Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is endorsing English as the national language.
Posted: 5:47 PM For the first time, the top export of the United States, the world's biggest gas guzzler, is - wait for it - fuel.
Posted: 4:32 PM The Dow Jones industrial average lost 69 points, or 0.6 percent, at 12,218. The Dow is up 5.5 percent for the year.
Posted: 12:52 PM Florida will be hit the hardest by the closing of Sears and Kmart stores, losing 11, according to a preliminary list of 79 planned closures.
Posted: 5:04 PM Officials in the Florida Panhandle have spent tens of millions of dollars of BP's money on a mix of eye-raising purchases that were meant to help restore the area's tourism industry a year after the Gulf oil spill.
Updated: 4:20 PM With just one day of trading left in 2011, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up 136 points, or 1.1 percent, at 12,287 Thursday.
Posted: 10:59 PM Texas Rep. Ron Paul received a welcome befitting a man with a suddenly serious chance to win next week's Iowa Republican presidential caucuses as he arrived in the state Wednesday for a final burst of campaigning.
Posted: 10:53 PM The U.S. strongly warned Iran on Wednesday against closing a vital Persian Gulf waterway that carries one-sixth of the world's oil supply.
Posted: 7:23 PM U.S. officials say the Obama administration is poised to announce the sale of nearly $30 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
Posted: 5:34 PM Changes related to abortion, immigration and protecting kids are among state laws taking effect in 2012:
Posted: 4:52 PM A new law could provide financial relief to thousands of Gulf Coast residents who received debt notices from the Federal Emergency Management agency six years after Hurricane Katrina.
Posted: 4:32 PM The Dow Jones industrial average lost 140 points, or 1.1 percent, to 12,151.
Posted: 2:58 PM Mothers from around the country plan to support a mom who says she was harassed at a Target store for breastfeeding.
Posted: 11:09 PM Republican Rick Perry is shifting his opposition to abortion, saying he opposes it even after rape or incest.
Posted: 4:19 PM The Dow Jones industrial average Tuesday edged up 3 points at 12,291 at the close.
Updated: 11:37 AM A babysitter confessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to death then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at his home and dumping the rest of her remains nearby. The babysitter has a criminal record in Florida.
Updated: 6:47 AM The stakes are sky-high in the race for the White House and some people are eager to place money on the winner-- and do it legally -- on the floor of the futures market.
Posted: 6:37 AM Talk about buried treasure a scuba diver in Florida found what appears to be an in tact World War II-era plane on the ocean floor!
