Business News

A federal judge has given the record labels suing Napster until Thursday to produce documents proving they own the copyrights to 213 songs that once traded for free over the song-swapping service.

With leading automakers battling for bigger shares of the U.S. market, Ford Motor Co. chairman William Clay Ford Jr. says he will match General Motors Corp. dollar-for-dollar in cash and financing incentives.

A bankruptcy court approved $2 billion in new financing for financially ailing Kmart Corp. on Wednesday, plus up to $150 million in bonuses for employees who help the company get off the rocks.

Amtrak President George Warrington, who has spent the past four years urging expansion of the nation's train network, is resigning his post at a crucial moment in the 31-year history of America's passenger railroad.

The oral health aisle at any well-stocked pharmacy has become an armory: all manner of mint, spray, gum and strip to battle whatever stench has befouled your breath.

Free beer flowed at a new Hooters restaurant that opened despite opposition from residents who fear its scantily clad waitresses will corrupt the youth and attract sexual predators.

About 20,000 chickens starved to death and another 180,000 will be euthanized in west-central Florida after a bankrupt poultry farm stopped feeding them.

The families of two passengers who died on planes hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11 have filed lawsuits against United Airlines and two airport security companies.

Circuit City Stores Inc. sales increased 9 percent in the fourth quarter and reaffirmed Wednesday its earnings forecast for the quarter and for the fiscal year for its used-car business called CarMax and its electronics store chain.

Former Continental Airlines executive David N. Siegel was named Wednesday as US Airways' new president and chief executive officer.