Associated Press

Online betting activity for the NFL's season opener saw a 77% increase from last year's levels, and location verifications were up from 12.7 million last year to 22.6 million this year.

A Minnesota man who was burned while working at a local brewery is due to receive $56 million. The man spent six weeks in the hospital due to the burns.

A tentative contract agreement has been reached with four nursing homes that went on strike for nearly a week over pay, benefits, and staffing disputes.

Lobster fishermen in Maine were denied an appeal by a federal judge to overturn new fishing rules designed to help save endangered whales, which limit the harvest of lobster.

Oil company Amplify Energy pleaded guilty to an oil spill off the Southern California coast. Its ruptured pipeline shuttered beaches for a week and threatened businesses.

A former bookkeeper of an Albuquerque auto body firm pleaded guilty to stealing $2 million over a span of seven years by issuing company checks to herself.

Environmentalist group Seafood Watch added lobster to its "red list" of seafood to avoid after the group discovered the lobster fishing industry's impact on North Atlantic right whales.

A Northern California wildfire that killed two people may have been caused by a problem with a machine operated by a wood products company, Roseburg Forest Products Co.

Auto companies, such as General Motors, are rolling out affordable electric vehicles even though battery costs are rising. The average cost of an electric vehicle is around $65,000.

GAF, a unit of privately held Standard Industries of New York, is investing $146 million into a new Georgia factory. The factory will create 135 new jobs.

Eastern Michigan University staff members voted to begin a strike on Wednesday. The faculty union has been working without a contract since Aug. 7.

The Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority has named Dominique Ranieri to be the new CEO. The airport has not had a female CEO in its 75-year history.

Maine has successfully defended their internet privacy law, one of the strictest of its kind in the U.S., against a lawsuit brought forward by a group of telecommunication providers.

A nursing home staffing crisis is unfolding in Pennsylvania as 14 nursing homes go on strike due to contract negotiations falling through.

The North Dakota Supreme Court reversed a decision made in a lower court in a dispute involving oil and natural gas royalties with a Houston-based energy company.

Amtrak will resume its train service on Sept. 26 from Seattle to Vancouver, earlier than the December restart date previously announced.

PharmaTech's previous co-owner, Raidel Figueroa, has been sentenced to over three years for lying to the FDA and allowing contaminated medicine to go to pediatric hospitals.

Vermont will begin phasing out its federally funded rental assistance as funding has begun drying up. New applications will no longer be accepted beginning on Oct. 1.

UW Health nurses approved moving forward with a strike. The union plans to notify administrators that they will strike if they are not recognized as a union on Friday.

CEO of Jefferies Financial Group announced that he needs staff to return to the office rather than working from their "lonely home silos" in order to finish the last quarter strong.