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By David Lazarus
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too...
By Jessica Guynn
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook Home was introduced with much fanfare one month ago. So far it has not lived up to the hype.
By Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times
The former El Segundo headquarters of the visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues has been sold for $25 million to real estate developers who plan...
Associated Press
A worldwide gang of criminals stole a total of $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then...
Bloomberg News
The Federal Communications Commission took a step toward improving Web access for air travelers, voting to write rules to open frequencies for an air-...
By Chad Terhune
By Jim Puzzanghera
WASHINGTON -- Bailed-out housing finance giant Fannie Mae said Thursday it would pay the U.S. government $59.4 billion after posting a record profit...
By Andrew Tangel
Initial jobless claims continued to decline last week in another hopeful sign that the labor market is improving.
By Chad Terhune and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times
By Chad Terhune
Shares of drug-testing firm Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. soared nearly 10% in Thursday trading, marking another strong debut for initial...
By E. Scott Reckard
By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times
An explosion of cheap generic substitutes for widely used prescription drugs last year helped drive the first decline in pharmaceutical spending in...
The top brass of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will have a lofty view of the much-touted $650-million makeover of the museum's Wilshire...
By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times
For the first time in its 10 year history, electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. turned a quarterly profit, beating analysts expectations for sales...
By David Undercoffler, Los Angeles Times
Riding a wave of increased auto sales, a weakening Japanese yen and a fresh lineup of vehicles, Toyota Motor's profits more than tripled during its...
By Adolfo Flores
If the dead could speak, they probably wouldn't have been heard over the burst of virtual shouting and howling Walt Disney Co. drew for attempting...
By Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times
Budget cuts won't force the closure of air traffic control towers during overnight shifts, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.
By Meg James
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is preparing to split into two entities, and the company's fiscal third-quarter financials illustrated why: Its cable...
By Andrew Tangel
NEW YORK -- Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling could get a decade lopped off his prison sentence in a deal with the U.S. Justice...
By Tiffany Hsu
McDonald’s had another rough month as sales at restaurants open more than a year slid in April, a month after the world’s largest burger...
By Shan Li
What's in a name? Apparently the key to people's earning potential, according to a recent study.
By Tiffany Hsu
Coca-Cola is making major promises to fight obesity – ceasing advertisements directed at kids, slapping calorie counts on all its packaging...
Ronald D. White
Summer gasoline prices will be lower in the U.S. than they were last year. But they won't be much lower, experts say, because U.S. refineries have...
by Walter Hamilton
Employee absenteeism due to poor health costs U.S. businesses an estimated $84 billion a year in lost productivity, according to a new study.
By Walter Hamilton
College can be a bad financial investment, and a fair number of people actually should not go to college, according to a new study.