NEW YORK – Toll Brothers Inc.(TOL) on Thursday said quarterly profit more than doubled as improved pricing offset higher costs and the luxury home builder raised its 2005 earnings outlook on hopes a rebounding economy would lift housing demand. Even so, the company’s stock slipped by more than two percent …
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ORANJESTAD, Aruba – Aruba’s prime minister believes that authorities made mistakes at the start of the investigation of the Natalee Holloway (search) case, a government spokesman said Monday. Beth Holloway Twitty, who has often criticized authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island since her daughter disappeared on May 30, met in …
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This has been flying around the Internet and I checked it out and it’s true. Remember all the hollering earlier this week about Pat Robertson (search) suggesting the United States assassinate Hugo Chavez (search)? Remember the Democrats insisting George W. Bush had to disassociate himself from Pat Robertson, as if …
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LOS ANGELES – One of three jurors who initially wanted to convict Michael Jackson (search) said she believes the entertainer is a child molester but joined in the unanimous verdict exonerating him because she believed there was reasonable doubt in this case. Two Jackson jurors, Eleanor Cook (search) and Ray …
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Find out if long-term-care coverage is right for you. DURING THE PAST YEAR, Bruce Marine, a 52-year-old antiques dealer from Potomac Falls, Va., lost his father to diabetes and his mother to cancer. They had suffered for a long time — his father endured amputations, his mother rounds of chemotherapy …
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LONDON – British police and animal welfare authorities rescued 84 neglected horses Wednesday from a farm where they had found 31 dead horses, ponies and donkeys, officials said. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officials were called to the farm in Amersham, 35 miles west of London, …
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MARTINEZ, Calif. – The Coast Guard says a significant amount of gasoline may have spilled into San Francisco Bay after a tugboat struck a refinery pipeline. The collision took place sometime during the night at the Tesoro Petroleum’s Golden Eagle Refinery in Martinez, about 30 miles east of San Francisco. …
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MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma – A 19-year-old first-year student at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state. With all precincts reporting, John Tyler Hammons won with 70 percent of the vote over former Mayor Hershel Ray McBride, said …
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SAN FRANCISCO – California prosecutors have declined to charge De Anza College baseball players who were accused of raping a 17-year-old girl last year. The Santa Clara County district attorney’s decision not to press charges sparked outrage last year. Local prosecutors also declined to pursue a woman’s claim that she …
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TOKYO – Watch out Energizer Bunny. Robot Evolta kept climbing and climbing — up a rope dangling from a Grand Canyon cliff for nearly seven hours on a pair of AA batteries that Japan’s Panasonic is billing as the world’s longest lasting. To prove how durable its new alkaline batteries …
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