National Business News
Dallas Zoo drops plan to ship elephant to Mexico
August 21, 2008
DALLAS (AP) _ Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn't going anywhere after all.The Dallas Zoo announced Wednesday that » Full Story
Amish population nearly doubles in 16 years
August 21, 2008
LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (AP) _ The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly » Full Story
Tropical Storm Fay floods hundreds of Fla. homes
August 21, 2008
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) _ Emergency crews launched airboats into submerged streets Wednesday to rescue central Florida residents trapped by rising floodwaters from a stalled Tropical Storm Fay, whic » Full Story
Parts of Texas pounded with up to 9 inches of rain
August 21, 2008
DALLAS (AP) _ Heavy rains settled in across areas of North Texas for the sixth consecutive day Wednesday, weakening a bridge and forcing postponement of a homecoming parade planned Saturday for Olympi » Full Story
Man dies when bluff collapses at San Diego beach
August 20, 2008
SAN DIEGO (AP) _ A stretch of oceanside bluff below the Torrey Pines Golf Course collapsed and killed a man Wednesday, authorities said.The man, whose identity was not released, suffer » Full Story
Obama and veep choice to campaign on Saturday
August 20, 2008
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Barack Obama’s newly minted running mate will join the Democratic hopeful onstage Saturday at a rally in this capital city where Obama launched his White House bid, a campaign » Full Story
States throw out costly electronic voting machines
August 20, 2008
The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about » Full Story
‘Boomerang’ Fay maintains strength over Florida
August 20, 2008
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining strength and threaten » Full Story
Searchers locate all missing Grand Canyon hikers
August 20, 2008
PHOENIX (AP) — Rescue crews have located a handful of hikers who were missing after floods tore through a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday.
The 11 people from two fam » Full Story
The 11 people from two fam » Full Story
A few continue to stand by embattled Detroit mayor
August 20, 2008
DETROIT (AP) — A few hours before Kwame Kilpatrick’s televised apology for the scandal over his exchange of sexual text messages with a top aide, the Rev. Horace Sheffield III led a few dozen very voc » Full Story