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In the early hours before President Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ phone rang. It was Edward Kennedy....

In the early 1960s, Mitty Collier had a contract with Chicago’s Chess Records and was riding high in the R&B...

Newspapers are hurting all over the United States, but the pain is less severe at small publications like The Blackshear...

Henry Wehner likes to plan things. When he began working for Philip Morris USA in early 2006, he had a...

First-time filings for state unemployment benefits fell by 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 570,000 last week, marking the first drop...

Costco Wholesale Corp. on Thursday apologized to any of its customers who may have been offended by a doll the...

The Spanish-language soap “Mas Sabe El Diablo” (“The Devil Knows Best”) soon will treat viewers to more than the typical...

The passing of U.S. Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy marks the end of a storied era in American political history. He...

Giving Ben Bernanke a second term as Federal Reserve chairman was the politically safe course for a president beset by...