Though jurors had seen Mark Smith being led away in shackles, thereby creating the possibility of a mistrial, the trial against the man accused of failing to deliver Ohio State-Michigan football tickets that he sold in an online auction last year, went on. The mistrial was denied.
Oil giant BP is facing more problems on the North Slope. The company says it was forced to shut down oil production in the Lisburne field Thursday. The shut-down came after the company detected dangerous natural gas leaking into a manifold building, a key control facility.
After spending three years shedding a pile of debt, Actuant Corp. has doubled in size in the last three years to become Wisconsin's newest $1 billion company.
Exxon Mobil will resume full delivery of Alaska North Slope crude oil from the Prudhoe Bay field by mid-October. And ConocoPhillips will follow suit about two weeks later, the two oil companies said Wednesday.
Counselors were on hand at George A. Phillips Academy when students arrived Wednesday morning, but parent volunteers were the first to act in response to the death of nine-year-old Rojai Hall Tuesday evening.
Owens Corning today announced that Judge Judith Fitzgerald of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved the company's Plan of Reorganization.
Stocks turned lower Monday as the price of homes showed its first year-to-year median decline in more than a decade. Wall Street has been eyeing the housing market nervously, worried that a decline in home prices could lead to a broad economic slowdown as consumer spending drops and workers in housing related fields lose their jobs.
Energy giant BP's recent series of stumbles - including a fatal 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery and last month's partial shutdown of an oil field in Alaska after a huge spill in March - has highlighted worries over its planned natural gas facility in Logan Township, Gloucester County.
BP is being accused of sexual discrimination by several North Slope workers who believe they were denied jobs on the corroded pipeline repair project because they are women. BP denies the allegations but admits that lack of housing is a problem, and has launched an internal probe.
