Nationally, a gallon of regular averages $3.81 — up 10 cents in the last week and nearly 96 cents above year-ago levels. Industry experts say prices could surpass July 2008's record $4.11 nationally as seasonal demand, speculators and political uncertainty in Libya and the Middle East propel oil prices.
"We could easily tack on another 30 to 40 cents a gallon," said Darin Newsom, senior …
Since this IT, security services and product provider started five years ago, its skyrocketing trajectory has propelled it from Business NH Magazine's 10 to Watch list in 2009 and 2010 to one of the five fastest growing companies on the Private 100 list this year.
The veteran-owned business expanded its customer base in the past year beyond the government sector to serve the Fortune 500 market, says President Keith Turgeon. In the next five years he expects the Fortune 500 market to account for 75 to 80 percent of its business.
The plan seems to be working. In addition to winning big contracts with the U.S. Marine Corps, and $1.2 million in new business from General …
Call it a sign of the times. An unemployed banker has taken to the streets of Manhattan _ wearing a pinstriped suit and an "MIT Graduate for Hire" sign draped over his shoulders.
Joshua Persky, an unemployed financial engineer who was trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says he'll be passing out resumes during the …
NEW ORLEANS -- Despite aggressive efforts to repair the NewOrleans levee system after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, itisn't clear yet whether it could withstand a hurricane with a heavystorm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineersconceded Saturday.
Lt. Gen. Carl Strock said the agency was carefully trackingTropical Storm Ernesto, which was in the Caribbean and projected toreach hurricane strength Tuesday. Ernesto was on a course that wouldbring it over Jamaica today, the U.S. National Hurricane Center inMiami said.
1 year after Katrina, Ernesto?
In Washington, the Homeland Security Department said Ernesto couldbe a Category 3 …
The fable can't end this way. You can't wrap the Disney moviewith the miracle worker waving goodbye and slinging a big bag ofmoney over his shoulder. Credits should roll with accompanyingcheers, not tears.
But unless Northwestern acts quickly, contacts every singlewealthy alum and starts a Save Our Coach fund, the possibility isreal that Gary Barnett soon will leave the greatest college footballstory ever told. Imagine, after so much giddiness, the Coach of theCentury bolting for a better job. In a sick way, it would befitting, the ultimate NU loss.
All indications, none more eerie than his silence, point to hisdeparture. He is seriously weighing the coaching …
KEMPTON, England (AP) — The King George VI Chase was postponed for a second time because of snow and frost on the course at Kempton.
After an inspection on Sunday of the course, Kempton official Barney Clifford said there was "no chance of the frost coming out of the ground" in time for the race to be run Monday. It has been …
World Cup host South Africa beat Jamaica 2-0 in a friendly thanks to second-half goals from Surprise Moriri and Siyabonga Nomvete.
Moriri scored in the 53rd minute and Nomvete in the …
