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Beaten down and watching their wealth shrink, Americans are cutting back sharply on their spending, trimming it in September by the largest amount in four years. The Commerce Department reported Friday that consumer spending…

Beaten down, American consumers burrow deeper 

 In many rural areas, people who want high-speed Internet access have only one option: relatively slow and expensive satellite dishes. Now parts of rural Vermont could get a new choice. Phone company FairPoint Communications Inc….

Vermonters to get largest fixed-wireless rollout 

Real Halloween back for long traumatized Pa. town 

The next version of Microsoft Windows, the software that defines the computing experience for most people, will nag users much less than its much-maligned predecessor, Vista. PC users will be able to test the new edition early…

Microsoft says next Windows won’t be as annoying 

The government prepared Monday to move the first batch of bailout money to banks as fretful world markets plunged again. Wall Street ended with a big drop at the closing bell, sending the Dow Jones industrials to their lowest…

First batch of bailout money for banks moving soon 

Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes – Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee – died Sunday of pulmonary failure. He was 83….

Acclaimed author Tony Hillerman dies at 83 

Standing atop the 400-acre 1-E landfill, you get a panoramic view of the Meadowlands sports complex to the north and the New York City skyline to the east. You’re also standing on a critical part of New Jersey’s, and the…

Kuwait moves to prop up major bank after losses

When Paul Hodges lost his job as a newspaper librarian this summer, he cut back on junk food, canceled his Netflix subscription, went back to his old DVDs and tried to stop buying new ones. “I had to scale back like everyone,”…

Hollywood feeling pinch amid economic worries 

 A campaign volunteer for John McCain told police she was robbed at knifepoint at an ATM and knocked down by a man who then carved a “B” in her face after noticing a sticker for the presidential candidate on her car. Police said…

McCain volunteer claims attacker cut ‘B’ into face 

An e-mail sent by a doomed fishing boat to a nearby vessel said it was taking on water in the rear, where the steering was housed, the Coast Guard said Thursday as it searched for two crew members whose fates remained…

Doomed fishing boat sent e-mail before sinking 

Samsung Electronics Co. is equipping Blu-ray DVD players so they can retrieve movies and TV shows from Netflix Inc.’s Internet streaming service, accelerating Netflix’s push to develop more delivery methods beyond the mail….

Samsung Blu-ray players hooking up with Netflix

 Now what? After three days of relative calm, turbulence returned to Wall Street on Wednesday. Louder warnings of a deep recession and weak corporate earnings took the Dow Jones industrial average down 514 points amid fears that…

Dow sinks 514 on louder warnings of a recession

Police: TV anchor perhaps victim of random attack 

With a timely endorsement from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, there’s new life to the idea of Congress returning to Washington next month to pass a second round of measures aimed at injecting life into the economy. The…

Bernanke breathes life into another stimulus bill

Suddenly, across Hollywood, the stock market is not such a sexy subject anymore, at least not in a yearning sense.

Some Hispanics in the nation’s ninth-largest city are suspicious of why efforts for a “Cesar Chavez Avenue” in Dallas have stumbled. The name of the famed labor leader and civil rights activist won handily when the city asked…
Dallas officials clash over a street’s name 

Red Sox Lead Rays 1-0 After 3 in Game 7 

A 6-year-old boy kidnapped from a Las Vegas home by alleged drug dealers posing as policemen has been found alive in a neighborhood northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said early Sunday. The child was “in extremely good…

Abducted 6-year-old boy found alive in Las Vegas 

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A trade paper reports that NBC Universal plans to cut $500 million in spending next year to prepare for an expected continuation of the worldwide economic slowdown. Variety says President and CEO Jeff Zucker announced the cuts…

Report: NBC Universal plans $500 million in cuts