Twice burned, the Putney General Store in Vermont is rising from the ashes. On Monday night, the Putney Historical Society hosted a community gathering to update the status of a rebuilding project …
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Vermont Locals Vow to Rebuild Twice-Torched Historic General Store
Federal safety officials are investigating a DuPont chemical plant Monday after a series of leaks that resulted in the death of one worker and the operation's temporary shutdown. DuPont officials …
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West Virginia DuPont Worker Dies After Chemical Exposure
Los Angeles-based Mercury General Corp. will will release results for its fourth quarter and
The Solomon Islands were shaken by a string of earthquakes Monday – including one registering a powerful 7.2 magnitude – but officials in the South Pacific country said there were no immediate …
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Quakes Shake Solomon Islands; No injuries or Damage Reported
Authorities declared two flooded farming regions in southwestern Australia natural disaster zones Monday as residents in one town nervously watched a rising river in hopes that it wouldn't break …
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Flooded Australian Regions Declared Disaster Zones
A radical Greek anarchist group claimed responsibility Monday for an overnight bomb attack that damaged an insurance company headquarters in central Athens, and pledged to step up its bombing …
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Greek Anarchists Claim Insurance Company Bombing
A sweeping healthcare reform bill appears headed for passage in the U.S. Senate after surviving a test vote early Monday morning. The bill has been criticized by some liberals who complain that …
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What Senate Health Bill Would Do
African nations agreed to resume U.N.
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U.N. Copenhagen Climate Change Talks to Resume after African Protest
The Supreme Court said Monday it would decide when U.S. laws against securities fraud apply to transnational securities dealings, specifically involving a case about a shareholder lawsuit against …
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Supreme Court to Decide Reach of Securities Law Outside U.S.
Some north Alabama residents awoke to a shaky start of the new week. A small earthquake rattled the northern part of the state Monday morning
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Minor Quake Shakes North Alabama
The outlook is not good for Oregon bridges in a major earthquake.
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Oregon Bridges Unsafe from Earthquakes
The former commissioner of the Utah Department of Public Safety on Monday entered a conditional guilty plea to two third-degree felony charges of falsely obtaining a prescription and to a …
U.S. Supreme Court Justices seemed reluctant to allow hedging methods to be patented as it heard arguments Monday that were closely watched by software, biotech firms and other industries. Some …
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Supreme Court Justices Appear Skeptical of Patents for Business Methods
Energy companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico shut in oil and natural gas production and a major gas hub was closed on Monday as Hurricane Ida spun toward the region. The Independence …
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Hurricane Ida Shuts Gulf Refineries; Downgraded to Tropical Storm
Software, biotech firms and others who develop new ways to do business will be watching closely Monday as the U.S.
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Supreme Court to Hear Key Case on Patents For Business Methods
AXA Asia Pacific rejected a $10.3 billion bid from parent AXA SA and Australian rival AMP Ltd on Monday, an initial hurdle for the French insurer's bold ambitions to expand in Asia. AXA SA, …
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France’s AXA Eyes Asia Growth with Takeover Bid
Hurricane Ida headed toward oil and gas facilities in the central Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path to the U.S. Gulf Coast after killing 124 people in El Salvador following floods and …
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Hurricane Ida Kills 124 in El Salvador; Heading for Gulf Oil Fields and U.S.
Maine's Insurance Bureau says workers' compensation rates will decrease by an average of 7 percent. Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman said Monday that an industry request for a decrease has …
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Maine Workers’ Comp Rates Drop
A U.S. appeals panel had tough questions Monday for the receiver in Allen Stanford's civil fraud case, who is suing to recover proceeds from several hundred investors in the firm's offshore …
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U.S. Appeals Panel Hears ‘Clawback’ Claims in Stanford Fraud Case
Democratic leader Harry Reid said Monday the U.S.
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U.S. Senate Healthcare Bill to Include Public Option with State Opt-Out
A flash flood watch issued for the state of Hawaii on Monday has now been lifted by the National Weather Service. The watch extended through Tuesday afternoon. The weather service said the …
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Hawaii Flash Flood Watch Canceled
A deputy sheriff has been accused of claiming an on-the-job injury when she actually was hurt by being thrown off her horse. The Putnam County deputy, Barbara Dunn, was indicted Monday on …
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New York Deputy Sheriff Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Officials say carbon monoxide fumes have made ill 41 workers at a banking office in Richmond, Virginia. Ten of the 41 who were examined Monday afternoon by fire officials were taken to area …
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Carbon Monoxide Sickens 41 Workers in Virginia
Insurer American International Group Inc.'s once-desperate financial state has started to stabilize, a government agency said Monday, as an influential lawmaker said he would look at easing the …
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As AIG Stabilizes, Greenberg’s Revised Bailout Under Consideration
U.N. climate change talks are “dangerously close to deadlock,” European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will warn Monday, kicking off a week that could prove critical for efforts to halt …
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EC President Barroso Warns Climate Talks ‘Close to Deadlock’
Pirates attempted to board two tankers in a busy shipping lane off southern Malaysia on Monday, a regional government security agency said. Five men tried to board Panama-registered tanker …
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Pirates Attempt to Board Two Tankers near Singapore
A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, and threatened 12,000 homes Monday in a 20-mile-long swath of flame and smoke and surging toward a mountaintop … Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved
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California Fire Still Rages in L.A. Mountains
The California electric grid operator Monday called on additional power plants to be ready to run as a deadly wildfire expanded near Los Angeles, increasing the threat to high-voltage power lines …
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California Watching Wildfire Threat to Power Grid
A number of experts and politicians from around the world began a meeting on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference, WCC-3, aims to “ensure that the current and future generations have …
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Geneva Meeting Seeks to Systematize Climate Change Data
The Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office say a fire in the EVRAZ Claymont Steel plant in Claymont was accidental. Firefighters were called to the plant Monday evening for a report of a fire and … Copyright 2009 Associated Press.
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Delaware Fire Marshal: Steel Plant Fire Accidental
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