LEXINGTON, Ala. - Picture the Manhattan skyline filled with Nike swooshes. Or the golden arches of McDonald's gently drifting over Los Angeles. A special effects entrepreneur from Alabama has come up with a way to fill the sky with foamy clouds as big...
Home prices and sales fell again last month in the Pikes Peak region, as economists try to determine if the local market has reached bottom....
WASHINGTON - The worst of the nation's credit crisis may have passed, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday, though he acknowledged rising gas prices will blunt the effect of 130 million economic stimulus checks. In an interview with The Associated...
NEW YORK - Struggling with soaring food costs and cash-strapped customers, restaurants across the country are swapping expensive ingredients for cheaper fare and adding new dishes that won't break their bottom line. Call it a menu makeover: Steakhouses...
WASHINGTON - The outlook for the housing market darkened further Tuesday as the nation's largest buyer of home mortgages said it racked up more than $2 billion in quarterly losses and forecast a steeper drop in home prices this year. If Fannie Mae's prediction...
SAN FRANCISCO - After fending off months of threats by Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc.'s directors still will have to fight for their jobs as the company's irate shareholders plot a mutiny. Spurred by criticism about how Yahoo's board responded to Microsoft's...
Rancho Liborio, the biggest Hispanic grocery store to arrive in Colorado Springs, opened quietly at 1660 S. Circle Drive in March. Low prices were the main attraction for Francisca Becerra, who dropped by the store during a recent afternoon and picked...
Colorado Springs ranks among the 14 best places in the nation to build a data center, according to a new study by a New Jersey corporate site selection firm. Low power costs, an abundant supply of highly educated workers, the availability of governmentapproved...
A small manufacturing firm took advantage of a slumping real estate market to buy a building that allowed the company to return to Colorado Springs after a four-year absence. Diversified Machine Systems Inc. returned to the Springs this year from Lindsay,...
MILWAUKEE - Hampshire Co., a developer of touch-screen technology, has been puzzling since November over how to fill a couple of engineer openings. Besides more traditional avenues - career fairs, staffing companies, college recruiting...