An evangelical preacher killed his wife several years ago and stuffed her body in a freezer after she caught him abusing their daughter, according to police and court documents.
The world may indeed be flat, and we all might be competing in a global village. But that doesn't mean we here in the small-biz world can make a cheap, reliable international phone call.
Jeannie Felts Buckner is caught in a recession triple squeeze.
Upwardly Mobile: See if the Suns' four-game winning streak was enough to get Phoenix back into the top 10 of Marty Burns's Power Rankings.
The FCC's auction of rights to a huge chunk of radio airwaves invites new players to the telecom game. If Google bids big, it could mean open wireless access for all
The South squad took to the field for their second practice in Mobile on Tuesday afternoon. Several defensive linemen showed off their physical skills. It was also another tough day for quarterback Colt Brennan.
Just days after SI.com reported Matt Ryan of Boston College decided not to participate in the Senior Bowl, NFL scouts in Mobile received more disappointing news.
FSB: After the iPhoneupdated: Thu Nov 01 2007 11:55:00
Ever since its release last June, the iPhone has inspired lust in consumers and envy in competitors. But at least for now, business users would be smart to ignore the one-million-sold hype: Apple's refusal to accommodate third party applications and AT&T's sluggish EDGE network keep this gadget strictly in the realm of fun.
LM Ericsson, the world's largest maker of wireless networks, reaffirmed its expectation that the GSM and WCDMA mobile handset market will continue to show mid-single digit growth in 2007.
In this day and age, buying a standalone GPS device isn't the only way to get navigation help.
More people can now bank online - even when a computer isn't handy.
Coca-Cola's new animated fantasy ad, "Happiness Factory," first caught the eye of millions of Americans when it aired on American Idol in January and again during the Super Bowl.
SI.com: Game onupdated: Fri Jan 26 2007 00:38:00
The practices are finished and NFL scouts, coaches and general managers are long gone. All that's left is to play the game. Yet even before the ball is officially kicked off, the script on which players came out of the '07 Senior Bowl as winners or losers has already been written.
SI.com: Ups and downsupdated: Wed Jan 24 2007 20:08:00
Wednesday at the Senior Bowl is always the most important practice of the week. The fields are lined with more scouts, coaches and general managers than any other day of the week. And as has been the case since Monday, a number of players are watching their draft stock rise while some are seeing it slide.
SI.com: First impressionsupdated: Tue Jan 23 2007 18:57:00
Amidst the cold and occasional rain, the 2007 Senior Bowl kicked off on Monday morning. One of the most important weeks of scouting leading up to April's draft, the majority of the NFL's head coaches and general managers are in Mobile to scout the nation's top senior talent.
SI.com: Put up or shut upupdated: Fri Jan 19 2007 11:15:00
While the NFL starts to gear up for the Super Bowl, scouts around the league are preparing themselves for something totally different. One of the most important events in the scouting process kicks off Monday, when hundreds of scouts, coaches and GMs descend upon Mobile, Ala., for the start of Senior Bowl week.
As I write this column in the third week of October, not a single hurricane has made landfall in the eastern U.S. this summer or fall. It's still possible that a major storm will plow through the G...
I am a journalist. Tough, unemotional, detached. Until Katrina. It was my worst childhood nightmare come true.
Hurricane damage to Gulf Coast ports is driving up shipping costs, which in turn could further slow the nation's economic growth, according to a published report.
The people of this small Alabama town have opened their homes and hearts to survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
More than 656,000 homes and businesses across Alabama were without electricity Tuesday, and water and debris still closed off many roads.
Downtown Mobile sat several feet under water Monday and an oil rig broke loose from its moorings and drifted into a major bridge across the Mobile River after the outer bands of Hurricane Katrina pelted the city with heavy rain and high wind.
Posted 5:51 p.m. ET CNN's Jeanne Meserve, traveling along I-10, New Orleans, Louisiana
Business 2.0: Muslim-centric Mobileupdated: Mon Aug 01 2005 00:01:00
The Middle East is becoming one of the planet's most fertile mobile-phone markets. By 2008 the number of wireless subscribers in the area is expected to swell to 110 million, up from 44 million in ...
Frank DeAngelis attributes any financial savviness he possesses to his parents, a barbershop owner and a schoolteacher, whose penny-pinching paid the college and graduate school bills for two sons....
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CNNMoney: Mardi Gras is hereupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 10:26:00
The carnival season is upon us and millions of revelers are revving up.
Two people in Florida were killed when the outer edge of Hurricane Ivan bashed four southeastern states with strong winds and pounding waves Wednesday.
Money Magazine: The Ultimate Mobile Homeupdated: Sun Aug 01 2004 00:01:00
"Honey, the house has arrived." Welcome to the new world of prefabs, where floor plans, chosen online, are delivered by truck as fully built houses four months later. Some 80,000 homes a year are n...
More than one billion people are now using Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) phones, almost one in six of the world's population. Not bad for a technology launched 12 years ago.
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - It's not that people in their 20s and 30s enjoy being in the red. Many in fact say they wish they could save more like their Depression-era grandparents.
Some 12 million cell-phone users are expected to switch carriers this year, now that a new law has made their numbers portable. That has the nation's largest carriers rolling out a steady stream of...
Fortune: Dropped Callsupdated: Mon Sep 15 2003 00:01:00
Aggravated cellphone users can breathe a sigh of relief. Come Nov. 24, customers can switch carriers and hang on to their numbers. According to a May study by the Management Network Group, about 8....
To Hank Aaron, there are two types of doughnuts. One is the metal weight with the rubber covering that he slid over the handle of his bat in the on-deck circle. The other is Krispy Kreme. "I used t...
A decade ago, Alabama's state pension fund made an unusual investment, pouring over $100 million into what was to become the largest golf construction project in history. The result? The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, an immense network of 378 holes on eight sites throughout the state, all designed by renowned course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr., who died two years ago at 93.
Money Magazine: Going Mobileupdated: Wed May 01 2002 00:01:00
Public companies are increasingly relocating their annual shareholder meetings. Some execs seem to be on the run from disgruntled shareholders; others apparently just want to have fun.
This is the bad part of my first-ever indoor rock-climbing lesson: It's 7:45 on a Tuesday evening, and I'm at Go Vertical climbing gym in Philadelphia, standing at the base of a 48-foot wall that's...
Open a door at an American workplace today and you may find one of them: the old-old, defying life's clock. In a culture that all too often extols young workers at the expense of seasoned elders, t...
Your workdays are longer, your stress is higher, and the demands at home don't get lighter. The need for an oasis is never so acute as it is in the airport, that never-never land that is neither ho...
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LIFE SURE IS MISERABLE HERE in Jackson, Mich., which you ranked No. 300, dead last, in September's "The Best Places to Live in America." The economy is so poor that I have to work 44 weeks a year t...
You're running late. You have a flight to catch. Your mental state is perilous. Who ya gonna call? Mobile Psychological Services, that's who. The service (based in Manhattan, of course) will pick y...
More evidence that bigger isn't always better: While Walt Disney's huge new theme parks have run into major snags -- Euro Disneyland is hemorrhaging, and Virginians are up in arms over Disney's Ame...
Back in 1988, MONEY introduced you to the Terhorsts, then both 39 and in the fourth year of a dream retirement in Buenos Aires. At the time, Paul, formerly a partner in San Francisco with the accou...
Fortune: HOW TO BEAT JAPANupdated: Mon Nov 18 1991 00:01:00
''We will beat the Japanese every time.'' So says Bell Atlantic Chief Executive Raymond W. Smith. That's strong talk from the head of a company that, like the other Baby Bells, is fighting slow gro...
You're talking on the airphone from a plane above the Midwest, planning strategy for a deal that could clinch your promotion. Then the aircraft breaks the ground station's range -- and you're cut o...
On Meltdown Monday I followed my usual route to work down midtown Manhattan's Park Avenue, passing the portals of such blue-chip multinationals as Mercedes-Benz, Unilever, Fuji Bank & Trust, Colgat...
A cellular phone can turn a car into an office on wheels. But before buying one of these great communicators, consider: Cellular equipment is not cheap. Although the price of phones is dropping, ex...
AMERICANS are just crazy about their houses. We babble endlessly about them, reciting the virtues of our new trash compactor or recalling in a kind of rapture the stained-glass windows in that gorg...
Mobile, Alabama, has seen some hard times. While it was largely spared by Hurricane Elena in early September, six years ago Hurricane Frederic smashed into the area and did $940 million in damage. ...
SCOTT PAPER CO. is on a tear. The corporation that sopped up punishment in the Seventies is now rolling up profits despite a continuing slugfest on supermarket shelves and a pulp market that has le...
SPECIAL REPORT Time to Quit 18 South Africa? A U.S. pullout would wound, not kill, the economy, leaving bargains for local companies. by John Nielsen An interview with 21 Harry Oppenheimer Don't Lo...
AMERICAN CAN has a packaging problem. The company, which has diversified into consumer goods and financial services, would dearly love to bundle some half- million acres of timberland it owns into ...
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