SETTLEMENT

A retired federal judge was appointed mediator on Monday to try to settle the battle for control of the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers that has pitted Major League Baseball against team owner Frank McCourt.

Can Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore save their marriage -- or at least stave off divorce rumors -- through the power or Twitter?

The state of California pulled out of multi-state mortgage negotiations with large U.S. banks, dealing a sharp blow to long-running efforts to secure a broad settlement over allegations of lending abuses.

The state of California pulled out of multi-state mortgage negotiations with large U.S. banks, dealing a sharp blow to long-running efforts to secure a broad settlement over allegations of lending abuses.

AstraZeneca PLC (AZN.L) said on Thursday it has reached a settlement with privately held Handa Pharmaceuticals LLC that will keep the company from selling a generic form of its Seroquel XR anti-psychotic medicine in the United States until late 2016.

The largest U.S. banks, eager to get legal protection after widespread evidence emerged of foreclosure shortcuts, are trying to convince California to be part of a multi-state mortgage settlement and not pursue its own aggressive deal.

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Tensions between the Israelis and the Palestinians grew Tuesday as Israel announced plans for over 1,000 new housing units outside of boundaries established during the 1967 war.

Charlie Sheen has settled a lawsuit with the makers and creators of Two and A Half Men over the actor's dismissal from the top-rated U.S. television comedy earlier this year, Warner Bros. said on Monday.

President Barack Obama is facing mounting resistance to a settlement from liberal supporters and a growing number of state attorneys general who say a deal would exonerate banks for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard on Thursday sued the federal government and accused it of failing to monitor the felon who grabbed her off a Northern California street as a child and held her for 18 years.

Some 2,500 nurses and other medical workers walked off the job at Kaiser Permanente facilities in southern California on Wednesday in a three-day planned strike protesting benefit cuts sought by the nonprofit healthcare giant.

A record audience of 27.7 million watched Two and A Half Men bury Charlie Sheen and introduce new star Ashton Kutcher in an all-time series high audience for the lucrative CBS comedy.

An announcement published on Treasure Island stated that companies responsible for 2007 San Francisco oil spill incident have agreed to pay $44.4 million as a settlement.

After over 24 hours's negotiations, officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers finally reached a deal Monday with three big grocery chains, Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons. This tentative agreement avoided a grocery strike involving more than 60,000 workers in Southern California.

Charlie Sheen and Warner Bros are close to a settlement on the actor's $100 million lawsuit against the studio over his firing from Two and a Half Men, a source with knowledge of the situation said on Monday.

British oil major BP remains committed to reaching its oil production targets at Iraq's huge Rumaila field and is not renegotiating contract terms, the company's chief executive Bob Dudley said on Sunday.

The recent executive shakeup at Bank of America followed by reports of massive layoffs at the bank may leave you wondering what the turmoil means for you - either as a client of the banking colossus and Merrill Lynch, the brokerage firm it owns, or as a shareholder.

A U.S. court has approved a proposed $263.4 million settlement by Hecla Mining Co. to resolve a 20-year-old dispute involving the silver mining company's liabilities for an environmental contamination in Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Basin.

Regulators are close to an agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to settle a case over disclosing their exposure to risky subprime loans, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

A Manhattan federal judge rejected HSBC Holdings Plc's proposed $62.5 million settlement with investors in an Irish fund that lost money in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.