Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

MANASQUAN, N.J. (AP) — The first summer season after Superstorm Sandy is underway at the Jersey shore, parts of which were devastated by the October storm. Cold, wet weather is expected to keep at least some potential vacationers away this weekend, but others are returning to their favorite...

Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

BERLIN (AP) — A German shipping company says four crew members from one of its vessels have been released a month after being kidnapped by pirates off Equatorial Guinea's coast. Leonhardt and Blumberg says the container ship's crew members— including Ukrainian, Russian and Kiribati citizens...

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Canadian mining firm says it's close to securing the funding needed to move forward with a plan to extract a valuable and rare heat-resistant element from beneath southeast Nebraska. NioCorp Developments CEO Peter Dickie said he expects to secure financing for the Elk...

Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against...

Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration is offering a bill that would require Connecticut's largest regional trash authority to undergo an extensive audit so the state can get a better handle on the organization's finances. The legislation also requires the quasi-public...

Updated: 4 hr ago

MARION, Ill. (AP) — A Japan-based maker of auto components says its roughly $15 million planned expansion of a southern Illinois plant will add 80 jobs. Aisin Electronics Illinois joined regional officials in breaking ground this week on the 108-square-foot Marion project the company expects...

Updated: 4 hr ago

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit's Compuware Corp. is a finalist for an award given for employer support of Guard and Reserve employees. Earlier this year, it was announced that the software development company, along with Davenport University in Grand Rapids and Mott Community College in Flint, were...

Updated: 4 hr ago

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A Las Vegas man is accused in Illinois of a timeshare scam that federal prosecutors say bilked $10 million from more than 3,000 victims across the United States, Canada and other countries. A grand jury in East St. Louis has indicted 37-year-old Michael Patrick...

Updated: 10 hr ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Department of Justice lawyers filed court papers Friday again asking a federal appeals court to delay lifting age restrictions and prescription requirements on an emergency contraceptive popularly known as the morning-after pill. The papers seek to delay implementation of a...

Updated: 11 hr ago

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — On May 27, 2003, a gold Nissan Quest minivan burst through a paper barrier to the cheers of assembled workers and dignitaries in the company's new Canton plant. It was Mississippi's entry into automaking. A decade later, some workers are looking back at their changed...