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NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart is giving customers a head start on holiday shopping, launching its annual layaway program two weeks earlier than last year. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil soared more than 10 percent Thursday, its biggest one-day gain since late 2008, lifted by resurgent global stock markets and a rep...

MONETA, Va. (AP) — The latest on the fatal on-air shooting of two TV station employees in central Virginia (all times local): 12:40 p.m. The man suspe...

SAN ANTONIO DEL TACHIRA, Venezuela (AP) — More than 100 Colombians carrying their possessions on their shoulders waded knee-deep across a river back i...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's an exciting new fall season ahead on broadcast TV. We await the charming rom-com "Manhattan Love Story" ... the heart-tugging you...

PARIS (AP) — The Moroccan suspect in a foiled attack on a high-speed train in France is facing terrorism charges over what authorities say was a plan ...

PITTSBURGH — Bradford motorists are paying an average of $2.703 a gallon for unleaded, self-serve gasoline this week, according to the American Automo...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the global financial market turmoil (all times local): ___ 2:13 p.m. U.S. stocks are paring their gains, after surging i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Don't do anything rash. Amid the scary slide on Wall Street, that's the advice from the professionals to 401(k) holders and other ordi...

DETROIT (AP) — Americans are less happy with their cars and trucks than at any time in more than a decade, and it's largely because they're getting si...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — Giulia Pugliese is a typical teenager. She likes to look good, and she's particular about what she wears. But when The Associ...

PARIS (AP) — The president of France pinned his country's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur, on three Americans and a Briton on Monday, saying they ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law doesn't start for another couple of months, but the next few days are cr...

WARREN — Lauren R. Bly has been named manager of the Northwest Savings Bank offices in Smethport and Shinglehouse. William Pantuso, district manager, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s approval of drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean clashes with the message President Barack Obama will del...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. builders started work on single-family houses last month at the fastest pace since the Great Recession began in late 2007. Hous...

NEW YORK (AP) — NBCUniversal, following a potentially younger viewing audience wherever it goes, has placed a $200 bet on the fast-growing BuzzFeed. T...

DETROIT (AP) — A June collision between a Volkswagen SUV and a deer in which a side air bag inflated with too much force has triggered a federal inves...

NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers’ reinvention plans come with a price tag. Wal-Mart’s second-quarter earnings report, released Tuesday, showed its investment...

SEATTLE (AP) — The pumpkin spice latte battle is heating up just in time for fall. Starbucks and Panera are hyping reformulated versions of the popula...