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For years, Dubai seemed unstoppable, an oasis of excess boasting indoor ski slopes and manmade islands, the world's tallest tower and dreams that reached even higher.

A $32.5 million contract to build Spaceport America's terminal and hangar facility has been awarded to a New Mexico firm.

For years, Dubai seemed unstoppable, an oasis of excess boasting indoor ski slopes and manmade islands, the world's tallest tower and dreams that reached even higher.

Crowd control at all Walmart stores in New York appeared to be smooth Friday, a year after a security guard was crushed to death by a stampede of shoppers.

After a Northwest plane flew past Minneapolis last month, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly for explanations about why they didn't heed radio calls, transcripts show.

Moody's Investor Service said Friday that ratings on banks in the United Arab Emirates were already on review, and that no immediate downgrades are expected in light of Dubai's debt crisis.

The debt crisis in Dubai was being closely monitored Friday by buyers and sellers of high-end racehorses, but there was no immediate indication Dubai's ruler would scale back his enormous financial ties to the industry in the United States and elsewhere.

The Supreme Court of Canada said Friday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was entitled to close a store in Quebec in 2005, seven months after workers voted to unionize.

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it cleared Novartis' seasonal flu vaccine Agriflu for sale.

Casino developer Las Vegas Sands Corp. said Friday that its subsidiary had secured $1.75 billion in financing commitments so it can finish a 6,000-room gambling resort in Macau.

New Jersey is about to wield a budget ax again on programs and services as tax revenues continue to take a beating.

As New Yorkers load up their shopping bags and click through their favorite online stores, state officials are warning consumers to be cautious during the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush.

A wildlife advocacy group Friday asked President Barack Obama to end aerial gunning of coyotes and other predators, citing an Idaho incident where a shotgun-wielding parachutist illegally fired on a wolf.

Six children of the sister of the late conservative columnist William F. Buckley are accusing their father of stealing money from a trust fund their mother set up using some of the Buckley family fortune.

Nearly three years after jobs started vanishing in Rhode Island at an alarming pace, House lawmakers will gather Tuesday for their first forum on one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression.

One of Michigan's most successful commercial fishermen is suing the state to try to overcome a decades-old ban on catching walleye in the Great Lakes.

Black Friday began truly black at one New Jersey Mall.

Authorities say a man in Colorado apparently tried to steal an ATM by hauling it away with a truck.

The Oneida Indian Nation has paid more than $5 million in bonuses split among almost all of its 4,800 employees.

Workers who want to report they've been underpaid or mistreated on the job are getting stronger protection against retaliation by their employers under a new state law that goes into effect this week.