Ailing department store chain Mervyns LLC, which had been operating for almost five decades, has become the latest merchant headed for extinction.

Ken Colburn: As everyone knows, electronics and moisture are not a good mix, and what you do in the early stages after introducing your favorite device to liquid is critical.

TUCSON - A 44-year-old woman was critically burned after Tucson police say a man doused her with a flammable liquid and set her on fire in her midtown house.

NEW YORK - Stocks rose but came well off their highs Wednesday after a burst of enthusiasm dissipated over a Federal Reserve plan to work with other central banks to alleviate a global credit crisis. The Dow Jones industrials, which at one point had been up more than 270 points, rose about 60.

NEW YORK - Former President Clinton was talking and taking liquids on Tuesday, a day after undergoing an operation to relieve four severely clogged arteries, a hospital source told The Associated Press.

Glasses are lined neatly one after the other, grouped together by pattern. Wine glasses, champagne flutes, goblets, tumblers — some colored, cut or etched — fill the cabinets that line all of the walls of The Glass Urn in Mesa.

NEW YORK - The financial whirlpool created by Bernard Madoff continued to churn Tuesday as the price tag of liquidating his old firm rose, and duped investors including the actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick struggled to accurately estimate how much they lost.

A bankruptcy judge says KB Toys can use its existing cash management system and continue to pay employees as it prepares for going-out-of-business sales. The nation's largest mall-based toy retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said it will begin liquidation sales.

PASADENA, Calif. - At least one of many large lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.

Police are searching for a man who on Wednesday poured flammable liquid onto a counter at a Tempe business and tried to ignite it with a cigarette.

NEW YORK - Wall Street closed out a difficult week with a mixed finish Friday after the Federal Reserve injected billions of dollars into the banking system to calm markets torn by worries about evaporating credit.

Federal investigators questioned a passenger suspected of bringing a hazardous liquid onto a plane Tuesday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Federal investigators questioned a passenger suspected of bringing a hazardous liquid onto a plane Tuesday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Fountain Hills officials are hoping a multimillion-dollar expansion of the town’s water motif will boost downtown businesses and draw additional tourists.

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