Kevin West

Retail sales edged down by a smaller-than-expected 0.1 percent in December as consumers showed resilience in the face of the recession and rising unemployment.

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp. would pay out an extra $634 million to key employees as an incentive to stay on if their merger goes through, both companies disclosed Monday.

Samsonite Corp. has been removed from the Nasdaq Stock Market because of declining market capitalization, the company said Monday.

The federal government announced Monday a program that encourages construction contractors to exceed federal workplace safety requirements at temporary work sites.

Several former Enron executives launched a new company Monday to market energy services to small and medium-sized businesses.

One peek at Bethany College and 18-year-old Amanda Sullivan was sold - its setting in the West Virginia hills and small size made it her favorite as she looked at schools.

To conservationists, new government regulations on wetlands will allow homebuilders to put up single-family dwellings in flood plains and reroute miles of narrow streams.

Microsoft Corp. added 980,000 MSN Internet access subscribers in the last three months of 2001, bringing its total to 7.7 million subscribers, the company said Tuesday.

The Princeton Review has named Atlanta and Athens among the country's top 10 college towns.

Henry County police say an airline ticket agent tried to rob the same automated teller machine three times in about two weeks.