Statewide, officials estimate that Hurricane Gustav alone destroyed more than 14 percent of crops and forestry, wiping out almost $543 million in farm and forestry revenue, including more than half of the cotton and sweet potato crops.

Lawsuits against the makers of faulty government-approved medical devices are already forbidden. Now companies that manufacture both prescription and over-the counter-drugs are asking the Supreme Court for the same protection. Outrageous!

Comcast Cable, which has already given us who use it bandwidth limits of 250G monthly, is now challenging the Federal Communication Commission's authority to impose rules on internet service providers. Major threat ahead if the FCC loses!

The legal battle has exposed some of the secretive machinations involved in the biggest drug recall in Australian history.

While the bankruptcy filing rate for those under 55 has fallen, it has soared for older Americans, according to a new analysis from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, which examined a sampling of noncommercial bankruptcies filed between 1991 and 2007.

One of the major dead zones is in the Gulf of Mexico. It is 8,000 square miles, nearly the size of New Jersey, according to the marine consortium's annual measurement completed in July.

The Crow Tribe struck a deal Thursday with an Australian company toward building a $7 billion plant to convert coal into liquid fuels, which would be among the first such projects in the nation.Capping months of negotiations, the Crow Legislature ratifie

The only two sectors in the employment market that gained were health acre and - SURPRISE- the government. The unemployment rate is now 5.7% and climbing.

If you like ice cold beer in the summer time then you will love this new frozen treat. A restaurant in the US has just been granted permission to sell frozen beer on a stick. The summer-time favourite was invented by Chef, Frank Morales, at the Rustico

In a clearing on Kenya's coastal grasslands, a group of nomadic herders shout down government officials who have flown in from Nairobi to explain the benefits of a proposed $350 million sugar project.