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  • Column: Guillen steals more headlines than games

    A great manager can steal a half-dozen games a season, tops, but he gets to hold court before and after each and every one. That's when Ozzie Guillen's genius really shines, and why he's the rare skipper who can write his own ticket.


  • United Airlines spends $500M to improve seats

    United Airlines plans to invest more than $500 million to improve seating on its planes and to create the same look and feel across its fleet. United and Continental merged last year and this is just one part of the two companies' integration.


  • Economy Briefs

    Warner Music Group Corp.'s chief executive and its chairman will switch jobs.


  • World Scene

    The lawyer for two Americans jailed in Iran on charges of espionage said Sunday the court will announce its verdict within a week, dashing hopes for their immediate release after a final hearing in the case.


  • A Greka Oil & Gas cleanup crew works on an oil spill flowing down a creek behind Firestone Vineyard, north of Los Olivos, Calif. in January 2008. The the company is blamed for 21 spills of crude oil and other pollutants in Santa Barbara County waterways, leading to a lawsuit filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice and state and federal environmental regulatory agencies. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department via Associated Press)

    Economy Briefs

    Government regulators sued an oil company Friday for 21 spills of crude oil and other harmful pollutants in Santa Barbara County waterways.


  • ** FILE ** Passengers walk past a Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, one of Delta's hubs, in Romulus, Mich., in January 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

    Airlines remove excess bag fees for military

    Several airlines have agreed to remove excess-bag fees for the military after a Colorado soldier and a buddy posted a video on the Internet complaining that Delta Air Lines made their unit pay $2,800 for extra checked bags.


  • Illustration: Debit card attack by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    MURDOCK: Washington declares war on your debit card

    Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, is here to help. Grab your debit card and run. Thanks to the latest kindness from the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, many of America's 185 million debit-card owners soon will endure new fees and lose existing benefits. Other consumers can kiss their free checking accounts goodbye. Mr. Durbin's bright idea even could shutter some banks.


  • United apologizes for returning 9/11 flight numbers to schedule

    United Airlines apologized Wednesday for briefly restarting use of flight numbers of two planes that crashed after being hijacked by Islamist terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.


  • Mark Kellner

    KELLNER: Staying connected, even at 30,000 feet

    Proliferation of portable devices makes inflight Internet an appealing option for travelers.


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