Bead necklaces poured from the French Quarter's balconies onto costumed revelers and National Guardsmen in the final fling of a Mardi Gras celebration that ended with the country under a terrorism alert.
Just five months after it lost 658 employees in the Sept. 11 attacks, Cantor Fitzgerald posted better than expected earnings for its eSpeed subsidiary and said it will use $4.9 million in profits to fulfill the first installment in a pledge to aid the fam
AT&T began offering local telephone service in Michigan on Wednesday, competing with giant Ameritech Michigan for its 4.8 million customers in the state.
She's not getting enough bookings, she hates the idea of a Miss America slot machine, and her parents say they have been treated rudely by pageant officials.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday rejected Bridgestone/Firestone Inc.'s request for a defect investigation into the Ford Explorer.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. said Tuesday it would change its method of financing construction of an Illinois dough-mixing plant, in response to investor concerns of questionable accounting methods.
Comcast Corp., the nation's third-largest cable company, has begun recording the Web browsing activities of each of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers without notifying them of the change.
