Again this year, most New Jersey state workers have the day after Thanksgiving off. But at a price: They are on unpaid furlough.

DECKERVILLE, Mich. - A family is losing its home because it underpaid the mortgage by 7 cents in January, a legal aid group says

ExxonMobil's sabotage of some 100 Texas oil wells in the past 17 years -- going so far as to plug up some wells with explosives -- means the world's largest oil company could be liable for penalties of up to $1 billion, the Texas General Land Office says.

The Associated Press is proposing that publishers attach descriptive tags to news articles online in hopes of taming the free-for-all of news and information on the Web and generating more traffic for established media brands.

Prosecutors have raided the Frankfurt headquarters of the German state-owned development bank, KfW (Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau).

A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its investigation into the antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month.

Crude oil fell to a six-month low in New York and gasoline tumbled amid signs that refineries along the Gulf of Mexico coast will soon resume operations after escaping major damage from Hurricane Ike.

The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said.

On several occasions recently Continental Airlines planes have taken off in the wrong direction at Newark Liberty International Airport, prompting harsh words from the air traffic controllers' union.

EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.