WASHINGTON – A new government report details 87 shipwrecks that could pollute U.S. waters with oil. Most were sunk during World War II.
The potential for pollution is less than…

BERKELEY, Calif. – Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns.
It’s…

WILMINGTON, Del. – A judge in Delaware ordered attorneys for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to turn over more information to shareholders seeking records on how the company responded to allegations of…

MIAMI – The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats.
A spokesman for the Guantanamo Bay…

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Federal regulators have indefinitely delayed a decision on the proposed restart of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, raising new questions Monday about…

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Royalty Pharma has raised its offer to buy Elan on the condition that shareholders reject the Irish drugmaker’s push to refocus its business through a string…

Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, along with Pactera’s CEO and other managers, have offered to take Pactera private in a deal that values the Chinese technology consulting and outsourcing…

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The owner of a jewelry store has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles for his role in an insider-trading case involving a former senior partner at accounting…

OMAHA, Neb. – Billionaire Warren Buffett is spending his day listening to business pitches from a select group of kids, but the ideas aren’t likely to generate new acquisitions for…

STOCKHOLM – A Swedish prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges.
Prosecutor Olof Sahlgren says the three are “suspected of…

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The price of oil rose Monday, taking its cue from the stock market and the dollar.
Benchmark oil for June delivery was up 86 cents, or…

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The stock market is edging higher in midday trading, led by small-company shares.
The Russell 2000 index of small company stocks crossed 1,000 points for the…

BOISE, Idaho – A central Idaho couple is suing the Sun Valley Co. and the Twitter Inc. social media site seeking to bar the resort from using the handle “SunValley.”…

PORTLAND, Maine – L.L. Bean’s grandson Leon Gorman is retiring as chairman of the outdoors retailer after more than a half-century as the company’s chairman or CEO, but the privately…

TRIPOLI, Libya – A Libyan gas company official says militiamen have attacked a natural gas complex in the country’s west, injuring two guards and stealing weapons and military vehicles.
The…