Target Corp. posted a 7.6 percent drop in second-quarter profit Tuesday and offered a cautious outlook for the third quarter as its customers focused on necessities like milk and paper towels and had trouble making their monthly credit card payments. Read more

More than 540,000 ballots have already been cast in Georgia, including many from the Democratic strongholds of metropolitan Atlanta in what could be an encouraging sign for Barack Obama's presidential bid. Read more

Michael Phelps was formally welcomed home Saturday with a two-pronged celebration that began with a parade and ended with a fireworks show at historic Fort McHenry. Read more

Regulators and financial industry executives are scheduled to update lawmakers Thursday about the failed market for auction-rate securities and efforts to return money to investors. Read more

Freight railroad operator CSX. Corp. said Wednesday it expects volume to continue to slip next year, but executives predicted that higher prices and productivity will be able to offset the shortfall. Read more

Hundreds of Russians lined up in the pelting rain on Tuesday to pay tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the author, dissident and patriot lay in state inside the Russian Academy of Sciences. Read more

Heavy rains and winds pummeled St. Croix on Wednesday as the outer edge of powerful Hurricane Omar drenched the island, stranding motorists on flooded roads. Hours earlier, workers shut down a giant oil refinery. Read more

If there ever is another anthrax attack, the letter carrier may deliver your antibiotics. Federal health officials are beginning a project in Minneapolis-St. Paul to let letter carriers stockpile a personal supply of emergency antibiotics so they are protected and ready to deliver aid to the rest of the city at a moment's notice. Read more

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that Barack Obama's plan to rebuild the nation's crumbing roads and bridges would help reverse the loss of 240,000 jobs in Ohio during the Bush years. Read more

Heavy rains and winds pummeled St. Croix on Wednesday as the outer edge of powerful Hurricane Omar drenched the island, stranding motorists on flooded roads. Hours earlier, workers shut down a giant oil refinery. Read more