The Mercer Livestock Auction provided the following report on the Sept. 4 livestock auction.
Commercial bulls, $78. to 96.; commercial cows, 60. to 83.; commercial steer...
It squanders $750B a year
WASHINGTON — The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, byzan...
PARIS — Europe’s debt crisis is pushing the 17-country eurozone toward recession and dragging down the global economy, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Deve...
Impact of Ohio casino observed
PHILADELPHIA — Gross revenue from slot machines was up 5.7 percent at Pennsylvania casinos last month as the state’s gambling industry cont...
NEW ORLEANS — Waves from Hurricane Isaac uncovered oil previously buried along Gulf Coast beaches, exposing crude that wasn’t cleaned up after the BP spill in 2010.
Sinc...
Big pickups are hot items
DETROIT — Big pickups carried U.S. auto sales to their highest level in three years. Demand for full-size pickups jumped 16 percent in August, h...
$50,000 red ink for every citizen
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said Tuesday that the national debt has topped $16 trillion, the result of chronic government defic...
The answer surprises many
WASHINGTON — Patient after patient asked: Is eating organic food, which costs more, really better for me?
Unsure, Stanford University doctors du...
This year, I attended the Iowa State Fair while vacationing in Des Moines. This year's attendance was the second-largest in the event's 159-year history: 1,097,142.
Visi...
Gas, oil leases get examined
PITTSBURGH — When Donald Yost tried to refinance his home about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh in January, he met a roadblock. It wasn’t his cr...
