This year's Super Bowl will be held at New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and the city has been transformed since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, reports CNBC's Brian Shactman. Mark Simone, WOR Radio Talk Show host and CNBC's Contributors Keith Boykin and James Pethokoukis, discuss the news of Dan Marino's love child.
By Ross Kerber and Jessica Toonkel. Legg Mason Inc on Friday reported a sharp loss of $453.9 million amid charges and continued outflows of customer cash in the three months ended December 31.
A teaser for Mercedes-Benz showcasing a supermodel's body has already drawn the ire of some media watchdogs.
DORSEY, Md.-- The cybersecurity firm Accuvant Inc. says it expects to add 180 jobs as it moves its Maryland office from Hanover to nearby Dorsey. The privately held Denver- based company joined state and Howard County officials in announcing the move Thursday.
Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin are among the eight senators who signed the letter sent Wednesday. Twenty-two members of the U.S. House also signed a similar letter. The Interior Department announced last year that it was seeking comment from the public on a plan to allow energy companies to begin seismic testing to find oil and gas reserves in the Atlantic.
ADAIRSVILLE, Ga.-- For Darleen Evans, it was sheer terror as the manufacturing plant where she worked collapsed around her and her colleagues. On two occasions, tornadoes have ripped through the Daiki Corp. steel manufacturing plant that employs more than 90 people in this small community.
CHICAGO, Feb 1- After nearly 100 years, researchers could be on the verge of finding a vaccine that would eradicate tuberculosis infections, a scourge that kills 1.4 million people a year. "In my own personal view, I will consider this to be a landmark or a watershed," said Peggy Johnston, senior program officer at the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle.
WASHINGTON, Feb 1- Only 11 of the 50 U.S. states have moved to implement new consumer safeguards under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, raising questions about how major health insurance reforms will be enforced, a report released on Friday says.
*Chesapeake home to 3,600 species, watershed covers 6 states. WASHINGTON, Jan 31- The Chesapeake Bay, North America's biggest estuary, is still ailing but making some progress as it struggles to recover from over-fishing and pollution, a partnership overseeing its revival said on Thursday.
NEW YORK-- Under Armour's fourth-quarter net income jumped 10 percent and the clothing company predicted revenue growth of at least 20 percent in each of the next two years, sending shares up 7 percent in early trading.
CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- Expanding its footprint the Washington, D.C. market, United Bankshares Inc. will buy Virginia Commerce Bancorp Inc. in a deal worth $490.6 million, the company said Wednesday.
BALTIMORE-- T. Rowe Price Group on Tuesday said its fourth-quarter earnings rose nearly 23 percent as the investment manager's fee revenue surged. But clients withdrew more cash than they added, and shares of T. Rowe Price fell in morning trading.
The message from sheriffs and police chiefs gathered at the White House reflected the political reality in Congress that the assault weapons ban in particular is likely to have a hard time winning broad support. The president appeared to recognize the challenge of getting everything he wants from Congress as well, participants in the meeting said.
Jan 29- Asset manager T. Rowe Price Group Inc's fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent on higher investment advisory revenue, but the Baltimore firm on Tuesday reported a rare outflow of customer cash. T. Rowe Price's assets rose $2.4 billion to a record $576.8 billion during the quarter.
Jan 29- T. Rowe Price Group Inc's fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent on higher investment advisory revenue, but the firm reported a rare outflow of customer cash. The Baltimore asset manager on Tuesday reported net income of $232 million, or 88 cents per share, compared with $188.4 million, or 73 cents per share, a year earlier.
Jan 29- T. Rowe Price Group Inc said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter net income rose 23 percent as investment advisory revenue increased. The Baltimore asset manager on Tuesday reported net income of $232 million, or 88 cents per share, compared with net income of $188.4 million, or 73 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland asked Smith to turn over documents connected to HGH negotiations between the NFL and the NFLPA.
That's because states issue bank cards automatically, require complicated paperwork or phone calls to set up direct deposit and fail to explain the card fees, according to a report issued Tuesday by the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit group that seeks to protect low-income Americans from unfair financial-services products.
WASHINGTON, Jan 28- A long-delayed $50.5 billion aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy cleared the Senate on Monday, three months after the storm destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in coastal New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.