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Spinach company faces unwelcome scrutiny
Sep 16 2006 8:13PM (CT)
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. (AP) - Earthbound Farm, the country's largest grower of organic produce, is facing unwelcome scrutiny after federal officials linked a nationwide E. coli outbreak to its bagged spinach.
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HP spokesman was targeted in leak probe
Sep 16 2006 7:26PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Hewlett-Packard Co. officials said Saturday that the company improperly accessed phone records of a corporate spokesman during its investigation into unauthorized leaks to the press.
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Wall Street: Ford needs a better idea
Sep 16 2006 4:28PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - When General Motors Corp. announced a radical plan to cut its huge unionized work force with early retirement and buyout offers last March, its stock went up 1 cent.
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G-7 upbeat on world economic prospects
Sep 16 2006 2:14PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The United States and other major economies are keeping global growth on track despite risks from high oil prices and other threats, finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrialized nations said Saturday, while urging China to adopt more flexible currency policies.
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Uranium boom challenges older companies
Sep 16 2006 1:40PM (CT)
CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) - It's dead silent at the Cotter Corp. uranium mill outside this southern Colorado prison town just one driveway down from a golf course. Steam should be rising from the boiler. A loader should be moving ore to the mill to be turned into yellowcake.
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St. Joe Co. marks decade in development
Sep 16 2006 12:27PM (CT)
PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (AP) - The St. Joe Co. rocked the real estate and investment worlds in 1996 when it announced it was quitting the paper business to develop its vast Florida Panhandle land holdings _ an area roughly the size of Delaware.
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Hurricane victims can evacuate in style
Sep 16 2006 11:38AM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - There are the hurricane evacuation images everyone has come to conjure _ stranded victims, snaking traffic and helicopters dispatched to rooftops. And then there is HelpJet.
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Nuclear renaissance prompts uranium boom
Sep 16 2006 11:20AM (CT)
TICABOO, Utah (AP) - The last U.S. uranium mill ever built, in this parched landscape near Lake Powell, shut down almost as quickly as it started operating as nuclear power fell into disfavor about two decades ago.
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IMF members likely to approve quota plan
Sep 16 2006 9:09AM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - International Money Fund members appeared set to approve a reform proposal to raise quotas for China and three other countries, delegates said Saturday.
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G-7 chiefs seek greater yuan flexibility
Sep 16 2006 8:33AM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The United States and other major economies are keeping global growth on track despite risks from high oil prices and other threats, finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrialized nations said Saturday, while urging China to adopt more flexible currency policies.
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World Bank: Youth key to economic growth
Sep 16 2006 1:58AM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Developing nations can generate economic growth and reduce poverty by investing in better education, health care and job training for their record numbers of young people between 12 and 24 years old, the World Bank said Saturday.
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