The price on a barrel of light, sweet crude fell as low as $35.13 just before the Christmas holiday as stockpiles of unused gasoline continued to grow.  It’s hard to imagine that less than a year ago the United States witnessed a record-high $4.11 per gallon at the pump; a time when several econo...

Reporters and photographers jostled and pushed against each other in front of Bernard Madoff’s Manhattan apartment last week, vying for a photo or a word with the disgraced investment coordinator.  Madoff smiled slightly as he moved past, declining to comment after returning from the Federal cour...

Friday morning shares of Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. surged on Wall Street (with private owned Chrysler cheering in the background) as news of President Bush’s $17.4 billion auto industry bailout sunk in with investors.  The President approved the immediate release of $13.4 billion fr...