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Android Apps: Market Hits 20,000 Apps Milestone

mobilecrunch.com | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology


Rest assured that 2010 is going to be a big year for the Android operating system, with many new handsets finding their way to stores around the world...

Ansel Adams' "Moonrise" Print Sold At Auction

AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A 1948 print of Ansel Adams' iconic photograph "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" has sold for $360,000 at an auction in New York City...

Sam Stein

Aetna Forcing 600,000-Plus To Lose Coverage In Effort To Raise Profits

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business


Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to me...

Chad Ochocinco Fined $20,000 For Bribe Joke

AP | JOE KAY | Posted 11.13.2009 | Sports


CINCINNATI — Chad Ochocinco's pretend $1 bribe is going to cost him a lot more. The Cincinnati Bengals receiver was fined $20,000 and reprimande...

DIA Investigation: $170,000 In Taxi Fees Embezzled From Airport, Culprit Unknown

The Denver Channel | Alan Gathright | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver


DENVER -- Denver police are investigating the embezzlement of $170,000 from Denver International Airport taxi fees. A search warrant obtained by 7N...

Enough Dow 10,000! These Numbers Actually Count

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


Eric Schurenberg

by way of putting the five-figure Dow in perspective let note some other numbers that were released since the Dow hit the 10k mark and that matter a lot more to you and your future.

Dow Hits 10,000, Unemployment Nears 10 Percent

Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


Scroll down for chart For the first time in over a year, the Dow Jones Industrial Index briefly hit 10,000. While much of the economy is still lang...

Safe In Slain Couple's Home Contained $100,000, Source Tells CNN

cnn.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment


PENSACOLA, Florida (CNN) A safe found in the home of a slain Florida couple known for adopting special-needs children contained about $100,000, a sour...

Exclusive Audio Of John Ensign Asking His Parents For $96,000

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.10.2009 | Comedy


Matthew Filipowicz

Report: Gannett to lay off more than 1,000 workers

AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media


MCLEAN, Va. — Gannett Co. is preparing to lay off more than 1,000 employees as the largest newspaper publisher's work force continues to shrink ...

Palin Reimburses Alaska $8,000 For 19 Family Trips

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin has paid more than $8,100 to reimburse Alaska for the costs associated with nine trips taken with her child...

Palin's Legal Debt Is More Than $500,000 As She Spars With Critics Over Ethics Complaints

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says her political enemies are abusing state law with a flurry of frivolous ethics complaints agains...

NAZITA AMINPOUR: $800,000 Stash Revealed By Bank!

New York Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business


A Long Island dentist is suing Chase bank to recover the more than $150,000 that she says she had to share with her hubby after a bank employee let it...

Fear Recedes

James Berman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business


James Berman

Common knowledge doesn't influence markets, only true surprises do.

Street looks past job data, logs 4th week of gains

AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Not even grisly job losses could get in the stock market's way Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average clawed higher to end above 8...

Sam Stein

Krugman Wants Anyone Making More Than 75K In Jail: Morning Joe Panelists

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics


What, exactly, is it about Paul Krugman that gets the blood boiling for so many pundits? The Nobel Prize winning economist was the object of derision...

Bag A Polar Bear For $35,000: The New Threat To The Species

The Independent | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green


Boyd Warner treasures the memory of killing his first polar bear. It was 2003. For days he had stalked his prey on the frozen wastelands north of Pond...

UBS Cutting 5,000 Management Jobs, Says Swiss Paper

Reuters | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business


Switzerland's biggest bank UBS plans to cut up to 5,000 senior and management jobs in the next few weeks, Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung said on Sunday....

The New Reality? Dow Slides To 5,000, Oil Rises To $50

Huffington Post/WSJ/Bloomberg News | Marcus Baram | Posted 04.08.2009 | Business


With blue-chip stocks selling for the price of a cup of coffee and unemployment rising, the U.S. economy seems to be heading for a new somber reality ...

It May Be A Decade Before Dow's Back To 12,000, Says Economic Forecaster

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- When Republicans and Democrats in the nation's capital want to make a point about the economy, they often cite Mark Zandi. A middle-of-t...

Dow Dips Below 7,000

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — A relentless sell-off in the stock market Monday blew through barriers that would have been unthinkable just weeks ago, and investors...

Where $200,000 Crowd Live

CNBC | Paul Toscano | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business


The White House's budget for fiscal year 2010 calls for tax hikes on wealthy Americans. In this case, that means couples making over $250,000 a yea...

Rachel Maddow: Pelosi Questions Obama Iraq Plan (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics


***UPDATED WITH VIDEO OF FULL INTERVIEW*** Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday voiced concern over the planned size of a residual force to...

Lobbyists Who Pay $25,000 Get To Mingle With GOP At Winter Retreat Next Week

The Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


As reported by The Hill, lobbyists who pay a $25,000 fee will get to mingle with House Republicans at their annual winter retreat next weekend: The...

Teen Grocery Bagger Turns In $10,000 He Found At Store

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Steve Maynard | Posted 12.28.2008 | Home


FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - A 17-year-old grocery bagger was ready to wash his hands in the bathroom at the Federal Way supermarket where he works when he s...