LONDON – Oil rose towards $74 a barrel on Friday, moving back within sight of record highs, on a positive outlook for oil demand and economic growth in top consumer the United States. American drivers are expected to take to the roads in record numbers over the U.S. July 4 …
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This week Gail answers your questions on retirement, IRAs and Roth IRAs. Dear Gail- I am a retired federal employee. I was told that I could not make tax-deductible contributions to an IRA. Is this true? Thank you, Bill Dear Bill, Assuming that all of your income consists solely of …
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WASHINGTON – It’s been a tough year for Angie McGinnis, whose job as county circuit court clerk has been to make sure that the new electronic voting system in Oktibbeha County, Miss., would be up and running right by Tuesday’s primary election. But she thinks she’s ready. “It’s kind of …
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SEOUL, South Korea – Assailants kidnapped five South Korean workers at an oil field in Nigeria on Wednesday, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said, two days after Nigeria’s oil minister vowed in Seoul to stop hostage-taking in his country. The abduction occurred sometime after midnight in Port Harcourt, an oil hub …
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PARIS – Fourteen European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a “spider’s web” of secret flights and detention centers that violated international human rights law, the head of an investigation into alleged CIA clandestine prisons said Wednesday. Swiss senator Dick Marty said the nations aided the movement of 17 detainees …
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand has deported a Yemeni man identified as having direct links with the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States who was taking pilot training in the country this year, the government said Saturday. Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali was deported …
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PARIS – Monaco’s Prince Albert II has acknowledged he is the father of a second illegitimate child, a 14-year-old girl living in California, his lawyer said in an interview with France’s Le Figaro published Thursday. Albert, ruler of the principality, “officially recognizes a paternity that was legally established a few …
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Washington, D.C. – The year 2011 promises to be a year of reckoning for certain small businesses. No, this is not a forecast about a shift in the earth’s rotation, or world economic system collapse. If you do business with government, something far more menacing is on the horizon – …
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TORONTO – The mammoth stage production of “The Lord of the Rings,” which was mostly panned by critics, is closing in Toronto. Producer Kevin Wallace said Wednesday that the $24 million, 3 1/2 hour show will close Sept. 3. “We’re doing respectable but were not sold out. The scale of …
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BURBANK, Calif. – Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons such as “The Superfriends” and “Space Ghost,” has died. Toth died while sitting at his drawing table at his home in Burbank on May 27, his son Eric said. He was 77. Eric Toth …
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