General Motors Corp. said Friday that it will temporarily close 20 factories across North America and make sweeping cuts to its vehicle production as it tries to adjust to dramatically weaker automobile demand. ...more

December 13, 2008

General Motors Corp. said Friday it will temporarily close 20 factories across North America and make sweeping cuts to its vehicle production as it tries to adjust to dramatically weaker automobile demand. ...more

December 12, 2008

GIRLS SOCCER Despite absence of three key players, banged up Lady Eagles pull out 2-1 victory over 4A-8 foe Wiregrass Ranch. ...more

December 10, 2008

When the University of South Florida visits West Virginia on Saturday night, the Bulls offense will be looking to snap out of a four-game scoring slump. They couldn't have found a tougher opponent to do so. ...more

December 2, 2008

President Bush expressed remorse that the global financial crisis has cost jobs and harmed retirement accounts and said he'll back more government intervention if needed to ease the recession. ...more

December 1, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research says the U.S. economy fell into a recession last year. The NBER says its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began in December 2007. Many economists believe the current downturn will last until the middle of 2009 and will be the most severe slump since the 1981-82 recession. ...more

December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving 2008 might seem like a good time to join Scrooge's "Bah Humbug" choir. ...more

November 27, 2008

Nick Calathes scored 15 of his 21 points in the second half and No. 17 Florida held off a late rally to beat Washington 86-84 Tuesday night in the consolation game of the CBE Classic. ...more

November 26, 2008

Ruth Brellenthin knows her Italian. She is from Long Island, N.Y., where Brooklyn-born Italian Americans moved en masse during the 1960s and 1970s. ...more

November 10, 2008

Consumers' appetites for home furnishings dropped again in August, with orders tumbling 16 percent to $1.68 billion - the fourth double-digit decline in six months. ...more

November 7, 2008