Not-guilty pleas were entered Wednesday in federal court in Detroit on behalf of eight militia members accused of plotting to kill police officers as part of a revolt against the federal government.
Regulators closed regional banks in three U.S. states Friday, bringing the total number of failed banks this year to 133, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said.
Three children at a summer camp in northern Georgia have contracted swine flu and dozens more have been separated from other campers after showing signs of the flu, but all are recovering, authorities said Thursday.
For Stuart and Dianne Falk, it is a two-bus, 45-minute trip into downtown St. Louis to head to the gym and to volunteer at a theater group.
Warren Buffett is no critic of federal aid to the financial system. But the Berkshire Hathaway chief says the government's decision to provide low-cost credit to troubled firms is taking a hefty toll on his Clayton Homes housing finance business.
The elections are over but Ohio remains a battleground state. This week's toughest test pits St. Ignatius (Cleveland) against No. 22 Glenville (Cleveland). Also in the Buckeye State, Elder (Cincinnati) plays Northmont (Clayton, Ohio) in the Division 1 playoffs.
On November 18, 1978, more than 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, a cult commune in Guyana. Its leader, the Rev. Jim Jones, called himself God. He persuaded followers to kill their children first and then drink fruit punch laced with cyanide. Of the nearly 1,000 church members who were present at the start of that day, only 33 survived. Eleven people fled through the jungle: Richard Clark, age 42 Julius Evans, 30 Sandra Evans, 30 Sonya Evans, 11 Sharla Evans, 7 Shirelle Evans, 5 Johnny Franklin, 33 Diane Louie, 26 Robert Paul, 33 Leslie Wilson, 21 Jakari Wilson, 3 Fourteen people lived through airport ambush: Monica Bagby, 18 Jim Bogue, 36 Edith Bogue, 39 Teena Bogue, 22 Juanita Bogue, 21 Tommy Bogue, 17 Harold Cordell, 42 Vernon Gosney, 25 Chris O'Neal, 20 Edith Parks, 64 Gerald Parks, 45 Dale Parks, 27 Brenda Parks, 18 Tracy Parks, 12 Four people were sent away by Jones or his mistress: Mike Carter, 20 Tim Carter, 30
A survivor tells CNN's Soledad O'Brien about his escape from Jonestown. Watch 'Escape from Jonestown, CNN 9 PM ET.
Not every subprime lender is drowning in red ink. Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Clayton Homes, the nation's largest maker and financer of prefab and mobile homes, has been a bright light in a mortgage market that has generated $500 billion in write-downs since the start of 2007.
Please, take me with you to New York. -- Randy, Milwaukee, Wi.
The Rise of the Silver Swimmer. -- Brian, Milwaukee, Wi.
I wasn't sure if I was supposed to bring a bell, a belt, or a Bill, so I brought all three. -- Martin, Clayton, Nc.
The hidden ball trick gone horribly wrong. -- Brian, Milwaukee, Wi.
Fortune: CSI: Subprimeupdated: Mon Apr 02 2007 00:01:00
You might not consider Mickey Mouse suspicious. But when Clayton Holdings, which monitors $419 billion in subprime risk for big Wall Street firms, recently saw the beloved cartoon character's signa...
Fortune: CSI: Subprimeupdated: Mon Mar 19 2007 13:08:00
When a mortgage goes bad, Wall Street firms turn to firms like Clayton Holdings.
CNN Student News asked viewers what they thought of the people who took cargo from a English beach, after the ship carrying the goods ran aground off shore. Here are some of the responses, some of which have been edited for clarity.
SI.com: Double Dutch updated: Tue Jan 23 2007 11:26:00
Each week SI.com will select the athlete who displays excellence on and off the field as the Primetime Performer.
By granting absolution to a convicted moonshiner, George W. Bush also earned the unique distinction of becoming the first president to pardon a cast member of the 1972 Academy Award-nominated movie "Deliverance."
"Hello, Jim, my name is Scott Vincent Borba. I'm the CEO and founder of Borba. You probably don't know who I am or what my company is, so let me quickly tell you."
One CNN.com user described paparazzi as "dastardly and despicable" human beings. Another said stars can't have it "both ways," making millions and complaining about their lifestyles.
We all know Warren Buffett as a stock market sage. And that his Berkshire Hathaway has become more of an insurance company than anything else. But lately, like most other Americans, Buffett has b...
Fortune: Jack Welchupdated: Mon Oct 29 2001 00:01:00
The former CEO of General Electric surprised the business world earlier this month when he took a part-time one-year contract at LBO shop Clayton Dubilier & Rice. He will be making a handful of new...
You're strolling down the street when something shiny on the sidewalk catches your eye. It's a Susan B. Anthony $1 coin. Do you a) scoop it up? or b) leave it for someone who needs it more (or is l...
Seated next to conveyors in a low-rise building that once housed a bicycle plant, workers with busy fingers stuff circuitboards with components. At the next station, fast-moving operatives insert t...
I guess you could call the excess we've seen in the LBO market Romanesque. And obviously the public junk bond market is decimated. But the private junk bond market -- where long-term lenders like P...
RUNNING a leveraged buyout is like crossing the Atlantic in a high-speed catamaran. You scream along at 25 knots with the windward pontoon flying above the waves and the leeward hull underwater. It...
KEEPING TRACK of public companies going private these days takes a mind like a high-speed calculator. Just since mid-October companies including Beatrice, R.H. Macy, and Jack Eckerd Corp. have anno...
A DREAD OF DEBT no longer inhibits the top managements of U.S. corporations, which through good times and bad have been taking on more and more of it. But despite the lurid worries of many financia...
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