BRADFORD — Zippo Manufacturing Co. is shutting down its cigarette lighter plant in north central Pennsylvania for eight days because of the soft economy.
The shutdown in...
NEW YORK — A private research group's forecast of economic activity rose more than expected in April, the first gain in seven months.
The Conference Board said its index...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans today will demand that a bipartisan panel investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether wa...
WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission objects to a plan being considered by the Obama administration to create a new financial watchdog to prot...
RICHMOND, Va. — An attorney for Michael Vick said today the suspended NFL star left a Kansas prison and is on his way back to Virginia to meet the next challenges he wil...
Even though the turnout was low, Butler County voters on Tuesday picked a number of candidates for municipal seats in the fall general election.
Republicans nominated Bu...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve expects the economy to improve in coming months, even as policymakers have downgraded their outlook for all of 2009.
Fed Chairman Ben Be...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama wants drivers to go farther on a gallon of gas and cause less damage to the environment — and be willing to pick up the tab.
Obama to...
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says today the economy is stabilizing but that unemployment will continue to rise.
Geithner said that even as the nation...
WASHINGTON — A top Democratic official said today President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January.
W...
