Olympic swimmer Jessica Hardy: 'I'm innocent' In the final days of training camp with her U.S. Olympic teammates, Jessica Hardy was trying to nap between practices when she got the most dreaded of phone calls for any athlete:
Destination retailers feel gas price pinch Consumer spending is down and gas prices are up. That's bad math for the scores of destination retailers across the country that want customers to fill up the tank for a gas-guzzling day of retail therapy.
ALL BUSINESS: InfoGroup lets CEO keep title A CEO packs his board with cronies, uses corporate dollars toward things like a yacht and allows his company to do business with others he owns.
Historic drug store opens its doors again About 12 miles west of Interstate 29 in northwest Missouri, the road makes a downward slope toward what looks like a riverbend. It becomes the town of Forest City, a once prosperous community in the late 1800s, until the Missouri River changed course. Now, quiet railroad tracks run alongside farmland and a scattering of buildings, with little to remember the town's heyday - until now.
Hagel chides candidates on Iraq Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's future and stop arguing over the success of last year's troop surge.