The proposal for a tax credit for business research expenses will be part of a pre-election initiative to spur job creation.

Police and fire departments in some parts of the country have begun billing accident victims to offset budget cuts.

Craigslist, the classifieds Web site, has blocked access to its “adult services” section and replaced the link with a black label with the word “censored.”

Air fares have marched steadily upward in recent months and are now close to pre-recession levels — and that’s not even counting all the new fees that airlines have introduced lately.

J. Craig Venter wants to create creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants — to carry out industrial tasks and displace fossil fuels.

Beatrice Capra’s surprising run ended in a swirl of gusting winds and a barrage of crosscourt strokes by Maria Sharapova.

The Afghan government scrambled to bolster the nation’s largest bank after depositors mobbed it for a third day.

Florida has set up foreclosure-only courts to reduce a huge backlog, but borrowers’ lawyers are critical of the process.

A fire that started in a New York City Sanitation Department trailer on a Hudson River pier sent enormous plumes of black smoke into the sky on Saturday.

The slimmed-down Mardy Fish continued his hot summer with an exhausting 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 victory over Arnaud Clement of France.

Tennis is being transformed by an older generation of bigger and stronger athletes, who have placed a premium on maturity.

Colombians call Uriel Henao the king of the prohibited ballads, a genre that describes the exploits of rebels, coca farmers and traffickers.

After a new blowout preventer was latched to the wellhead, BP prepared to conduct tests that should allow the company to finish plugging the well.

Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.

A diminished Tropical Storm Earl left barely a hint of damage after slapping at Nantucket and Cape Cod.

Standup comic Robert Schimmel was a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s radio show

With top-tier actors and affordable tickets, the city’s theater scene is rich and intimate.

The security firm created shell companies to obtain U.S. contracts after it was criticized for its conduct in Iraq, investigators said.

Democrats have yet to find a unifying message to address the economy and are scrambling to come up with job-creating remedies before voters go to the polls.

HBO’s new series “Boardwalk Empire” is set in Atlantic City in 1920, during the first year of Prohibition.