The Southeastern Conference is the second league to have the top three spots in ranking all to itself.

Some relief from suffocating gas prices will likely arrive just in time for summer vacation. Expect a drop of nearly 50 cents as early as June, analysts say.

More people bought new homes in March, helping give the battered industry a small lift after the worst winter for sales in almost a half-century.

The world's financial powers have agreed on a new way to track economic health in hopes of short-circuiting the kinds of problems that caused the worst global downturn since World War II.

Government investigators say the Food and Drug Administration is putting patients at risk by approving sensitive medical devices such as hip joints and heart defibrillators under the same streamlined system intended for power wheelchairs, stitches and catheters.

Government officials are imposing significant conditions on Google Inc. as they allowed the Internet search leader on Friday to proceed with its $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software.

Sales of new homes plunged in February to the slowest pace on records dating back nearly half a century, a dismal sign for an already-weak housing market.

Sales of new homes fell significantly in January, a dismal sign after the worst year for that sector in nearly a half-century.