Before his death, Jeffry M. Picower had benefited more than anyone from Bernard Madoff's fraud. A longtime investor with the disgraced money manager, he had withdrawn more than $7 billion in other people's money before the Ponzi ...

The Rockets face an uncertain future without center Yao Ming for the rest of this season. OK, Daryl Morey, what's Plan B? Not to be insensitive, but it's not like you could count on Yao Ming anyway.

WASHINGTON - With enactment of the tax-cut compromise and the possible passage of other key White House priorities, congressional leaders have asserted their authority to achieve bipartisan agreements in ...

Colorado has notched its first three months of consecutive job growth since 2007. But more hiring has attracted even more job-seekers to the market, nudging Colorado's unemployment rate up slightly in November.

TRON is either the first brilliant cinematic exploration of the digital world … or the silliest. Released by Disney in 1982 - over a year before the Apple Macintosh brought the graphical user interface home to ...

AP Donovan McNabb is falling to second-string. Then third-string. Then no guarantee he'll be back next season. The ever-dramatic Washington Redskins made news again Friday when coach Mike Shanahan announced Rex Grossman as his starter for the rest of ...

Has there been a worse finale for a long-running show? Seinfeld comes to mind. Jerry Seinfeld had a bit of run-in in 2007 with King, who, as usual, had done no homework and assumed the classic comedy had been canceled by NBC.

Security is now tight around a prison in Mexico after a brazen escape by scores of inmates. Soldiers and federal police are surrounding the jail in Nuevo Laredo, but it has come too late after 140 prisoners walked out in broad daylight from the prison ...

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (TheStreet) -- Oracle(ORCL), which posted strong second-quarter results on Thursday, is rapidly gaining ground on HP(HPQ) and IBM(IBM) in the high-end server market, according to CEO Larry ...

Kenyan PM calls on African nations to oust Ivorian incumbent president Gbagbo if he refuses to step down. International pressure has been mounting on Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent president, to step down, with Kenya saying he should now be ...

A Journal investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users. By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Hoping to reassure Afghans about cross-border attacks, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday that it was “very possible” that Pakistan would be able to root out insurgents from havens inside its ...

Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The extra yield Treasury investors demand to hold 10-year notes over 2-year securities touched the widest since February on speculation an extension of tax cuts will spur growth and increase deficits.

CARSON -- Christoph Bono felt the soggy field at the Home Depot Center during warm-ups Friday and had trouble keeping his footing.

Image Credit: Richard McCaffrey/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images Rock music lost one of its most legendary stars today with the death of Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet), who passed away at the age of 69 of complications from ...

AP By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY AP Personal Finance Writer A proposed cap on the fees that banks charge for debit card transactions would substantially reduce the cost for businesses.

The Los Angeles Police Department was inundated with phone calls Friday within 24 hours of the release of photographs of women that had been found in the home of the suspected “Grim Sleeper” serial killer.