SAN FRANCISCO — In a case that could affect thousands of California employers and millions of workers, the state Supreme Court will decide whether managers must order wo...
DETROIT — U.S. safety regulators have expanded an investigation into 23 complaints of fires in Jeep Wrangler SUVs.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ha...
Marcellus law appeal mulled
HARRISBURG — A judge on Wednesday ordered a temporary halt to the section of Pennsylvania’s new Marcellus Shale law that puts limits on the po...
February sees uptick to 3.5M
WASHINGTON — Employers posted slightly more job openings in February, suggesting that modest hiring gains will continue in coming months.
The...
Alcoa may have given a slumping Wall Street just what it needed: a surprise profit.
The largest U.S. aluminum manufacturer said Tuesday that it earned 9 cents share in t...
Highest level in 2 decades
BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. coal exports reached their highest level in two decades last year as strong demand from Asia and Europe offered an outle...
NEW YORK — Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn, 50, abruptly resigned Tuesday after the consumer electronics chain launched an internal investigation into his “personal conduct.”
Be...
Facebook buys Instagram
NEW YORK — Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network’s largest acquisition ever.
On the sur...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Nine men who survived West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine disaster want to abandon mediation of their personal injury claims and start gathering ev...
NEW YORK — Faltering Internet icon AOL was able to squeeze out more than $1 billion from Microsoft for a trove of some 800 patents in an auction, the latest sign of just...
