Actel names Carson as new CFO - AP - 1 minute ago
Programmable chip maker Actel Corp. on Tuesday said it named Maurice Carson as its executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Colonial BancGroup to sell 21 Nevada bank branches - AP - 5 minutes ago
Colonial BancGroup Inc. and its subsidiary Colonial Bank said Tuesday it reached an agreement with Global Consumer Acquisition Corp. for the sale of 21 Colonial Bank branches in Nevada.

Wholesale prices, retail sales rise in June - AP - 6 minutes ago
Higher energy prices rippled through the U.S. economy in June, helping to drive a bigger-than-expected gain in retail sales.

Va. doc pleads guilty to prescription writing scam - AP - 7 minutes ago
A Virginia doctor has pleaded guilty in Massachusetts to writing tens of thousands of prescriptions for muscle relaxants and other drugs over the Internet to patients he'd never examined.

MTV Poll: Young people sunny despite bad economy - AP - 8 minutes ago
Rick Lagrappe is 19, without a job and living at home in Shawnee, Okla. But he's far from bummed out about life. Lagrappe described himself as a "very happy" person in an MTV poll of 1,100 young people released Tuesday, and he wasn't alone.

Stocks rise after better earnings, retail reports - AP - 9 minutes ago
Stocks are slightly higher in early trading following better-than-expected earnings reports from Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs and an upbeat reading on retail sales.

Premarket roundup: Managed care, VMware - AP - 11 minutes ago
Despite multibillion dollar potential, Aetna Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. will likely only benefit modestly from new military health insurance contracts, an analyst at Deutsche Bank-North America said Tuesday.