Kevin West

Refusing to take no for an answer, Carnival Corp. came up Thursday with its fourth hostile offer for P&O Princess PLC in an effort to prevent P&O from merging with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Target Corp. on Thursday raised its earnings outlook for the fourth fiscal quarter, citing strong January sales at its upscale discount stores.

Excerpts from John Walker Lindh's e-mails and letters to his family, released by the government Wednesday in a successful motion to keep him in custody:

A man who called police to brag that he couldn't be caught was arrested while he was still on the phone, authorities said.

An Ohio man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing and mutilating his girlfriend two years ago on a trip to Florida.

An Ohio man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty but mentally ill to killing and mutilating his girlfriend two years ago on a trip to Florida. He was arrested in northeast Alabama after violent confrontations there.

Tough market conditions caused a significant drop in profits at WorldCom Inc. in the fourth quarter, falling short of Wall Street's expectations, the company reported Thursday.

The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for state unemployment insurance dropped by 15,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 376,000.

The Home Depot will open 17 stores on Thursday, February 7 - the largest one-day store roll out in the company's 23-year history.

Investigators have given up hope of finding any more bodies inside the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine, after retrieving bodies of 94 of the 118 men aboard, a top military prosecutor said Thursday.