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Colonel Sanders is an iconic American brand image. The K in KFC is for Kentucky after all. So it may come as a surprise […]

JPMorgan Chase says its fourth-quarter profit jumped 47 percent as the company was able to set aside less money to cover loan losses.
The New York […]

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he has invested $500 million in General Motors, the U.S. auto giant whose shares returned to trading last […]

Stocks ended October with gains, but uncertainty sent investors to the sidelines Friday following a lackluster reading on economic growth and ahead of next […]

A friend and former employee of Denny Hecker pleaded guilty to two federal charges Monday afternoon.
James Gustafson admitted lying to federal investigators and mail fraud, […]

Food prices in Kentucky for the second quarter were up over the first quarter, according to the latest Marketbasket Survey, released Friday by the Kentucky […]

Home prices in the Raleigh-Cary area increased by 1.37 percent in April compared to April 2009, even as home prices statewide fell by 0.7 percent, […]

The federal Housing Finance Agency has given North Carolina a $159 million grant to help prevent home foreclosures in counties where unemployment hovered at 12 […]

Austinites area waiting even longer to file taxes this year, moving from the nation's 11th most procrastinating to the fourth, according to Intuit Inc.
Taxpayers have […]

The House unanimously approved a measure Wednesday that will allow taxpayers to deduct cash donations to Haiti earthquake relief on their 2009 tax returns […]