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• Alaska Airlines computer connection restored Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 4:25 PM ET

  SEATTLE-- Alaska Airlines has fixed the computer problem that delayed flights Monday across its 64- airport network on the West Coast and in Mexico and Canada, and operations slowly were returning to normal. Alaska Airlines said the data connection was restored before 1 p.m. but passengers could still expect some delays as the system adjusted.

• Alaska Airlines recovering from computer glitch Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 4:19 PM ET

  SEATTLE-- Alaska Airlines says its computer connections have been restored, and operations are returning to normal at its airport gates. The problem started just before 8 a.m. Monday when the airline lost its connection to the Sabre reservation system because of two cut Sprint fiber optic lines.

• 2 Sprint fiber optic cuts grounded Alaska Airlines Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 3:41 PM ET

  SEATTLE-- The computer problem that has cut off Alaska Airlines' ability to put passengers on planes was caused by a combination of two fiber optic cuts in the Sprint system.

• NY cotton rises on short covering; boosted by buoyant grains Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 3:22 PM ET

  *World Bank warns on slowing Chinese economic growth. NEW YORK, Oct 8- Cotton prices were flat to slightly higher on Monday as speculative short covering and a buoyant grains market offset concerns about slowing growth in China, the world's largest textile market.

• UPDATE 2-US health officials enlist police in growing meningitis scare Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 2:20 PM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct 8- U.S. health authorities scrambled on Monday to identify more cases of a rare form of meningitis, including enlisting local police to find people who might be infected by tainted steroid injections that have so far killed eight people.

• Maine's 6 Senate hopefuls all hail from elsewhere Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 2:12 PM ET

  PORTLAND, Maine-- Maine has always been proud of the commodities it claims as homegrown, among them Stephen King, L.L. Bean, lobster, and a host of political icons including Edmund Muskie, George Mitchell and Olympia Snowe. Independent Angus King hails from Alexandria, Va., attended Dartmouth College and moved to Maine, where he has settled in Brunswick.

• At a Glance: Weekly change in state gas prices Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 1:14 PM ET
• US health officials enlist police in growing meningitis scare Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 1:11 PM ET

  The widening outbreak has alarmed federal and state health officials and focused attention on regulation of pharmaceutical compounding companies like the one that produced the drugs, the New England Compounding Center Inc in Framingham, Massachusetts.

• Vringo spikes after filing patent suit against ZTE Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 11:53 AM ET

  NEW YORK-- Shares of Vringo, which buys and licenses patents, jumped more than 16 percent in heavy trading Monday, after the company said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ZTE Corp.' s U.K. subsidiary.

• UPDATE 1-Media General exits newspaper biz; raises political ad revenue forecast Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 11:31 AM ET

  Oct 8- Media General Inc exited its nearly two-centuries-old newspaper business by selling the Tampa Tribune, and raised its revenue forecast for political advertising on its TV stations due to stronger-than-anticipated demand in key election battlegrounds.

• Media General sells last newspaper; sees strong election ads on TV Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 10:38 AM ET

  Oct 8- Media General Inc said it has sold its last newspaper, the Tampa Tribune, and raised its full-year revenue forecast for political advertising on its TV stations due to stronger-than-anticipated demand in key election battlegrounds.

• CORRECTED-Slide halted, Romney challenging Obama in swing states Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 10:28 AM ET

  *Romney claws his way back after first debate* Only 2 points behind in Reuters/ Ipsos poll By Steve Holland. PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla., Oct 7- Mitt Romney appeared on Sunday to have halted his perilous slide in the polls and is back to running a close race with President Barack Obama as he prepares a new assault on the Democrat over foreign policy.

• The Tampa Tribune sold to private equity firm Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 10:19 AM ET

  TAMPA, Fla.-- A private equity investment group has bought The Tampa Tribune newspaper from Media General Inc. for $9.5 million, the newspaper reported Monday.

• Presidential race rumbles into final 4 weeks Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 8:33 AM ET

  LOS ANGELES-- Rumbling into its final four weeks, the presidential campaign is playing out on both coasts and multiple fronts, with Republican Mitt Romney seeking stature on foreign affairs and President Barack Obama raising political cash by the millions.

• Dish, Gannett continue negotiations on TV fees Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 3:25 AM ET

  McLEAN, Va.-- Dish Network Corp. and Gannett Co. say they've agreed to extend a deadline by several hours as their talks continue in a dispute over fees involving access by more than 2 million Dish subscribers to Gannett's TV stations in 19 cities.

• UPDATE 3-Deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak increases to 91 cases Sunday, 7 Oct 2012 | 6:19 PM ET

  *Most news cases in Michigan. The widening outbreak has alarmed U.S. health officials and focused attention on regulations of pharmaceutical compounding companies like the one that produced the drugs, the New England Compounding Center Inc in Framingham, Massachusetts.

• Slide halted, Romney challenging Obama in swing states Sunday, 7 Oct 2012 | 5:29 PM ET

  *Only 2 points behind in Reuters/ Ipsos poll. PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla., Oct 7- Mitt Romney appeared on Sunday to have halted his perilous slide in the polls and is back to running a close race with President Barack Obama as he prepares a new assault on the Democrat over foreign policy.

• UPDATE 2-Deadly US meningitis outbreak increases to 91 cases Sunday, 7 Oct 2012 | 3:28 PM ET

  *Most news cases in Michigan. The widening outbreak has alarmed U.S. health officials and focused attention on regulations of pharmaceutical compounding companies like the one that produced the drugs, the New England Compounding Center Inc in Framingham, Massachusetts.

• UPDATE 1-Deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak increases to 91 cases Sunday, 7 Oct 2012 | 2:58 PM ET

  Most of the new cases were reported in Michigan, where the total increased to 20 from five. The widening outbreak has alarmed health officials across the United States and focused attention on regulations of pharmaceutical compounding companies like the one that produced the drugs, the New England Compounding Center Inc in Framingham, Massachusetts.

• U.S. CDC to give update on deadly meningitis outbreak Sunday Sunday, 7 Oct 2012 | 11:47 AM ET

  The cases have been traced to three lots of the steroid prepared by a pharmaceutical compounding plant in Massachusetts, New England Compounding Center Inc.. So far, cases of people becoming ill after receiving the steroid injections have been reported in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.