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Homes and businesses damaged by flooding in Niobrara and Johnson counties can seek federal aid thanks to a federal disaster declaration.

Amtrak passenger service disrupted by a freight train derailment is expected to resume Wednesday along the Chicago-to-St. Louis line.

Danish shipping and oil group A.P.

What was to be a five-hour trip between Chicago and St. Louis turned into a 14-hour ordeal for passengers aboard an Amtrak train due to a truck accident and the derailment of a freight train.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Humana Inc. (HUM), up $1.46 to $188.96 The health insurer provided a lower-than-expected second-quarter profit outlook as it moves ahead with its buyout of Aetna Inc.

Los Angeles building officials approved plans to build a 1 million-square-foot complex of skyscrapers, stores and restaurants in the heart of Hollywood, agreeing with the developer that an earthquake fault underneath the property is too old to be considered active.

Ohio University officials say the campus nestled in the state's coal-mining country will transition from coal to natural gas fuel by the end of the year.

The latest government report shows airlines doing a little better at arriving on time.

Europe's low-cost airline Ryanair says it will start its first cheap flights in and out of Israel in November.

It took $817 million, two starts, more than six years and one worker's life to drill a so-called "Third Straw" to make sure glittery casinos and sprawling suburbs of Las Vegas can keep getting drinking water from near the bottom of drought-stricken Lake Mead.

Three villages in Long Island's Hamptons region are looking to slow down, or even stop, a growing trend of constructing ever-larger homes on small plots of real estate.

Footwear company New Balance says the military has been slow to deliver on its promise to outfit recruits in sneakers 100 percent made and manufactured in America.

Southwest Airlines says it has a tentative contract agreement with the union representing its flight attendants.

Missouri utility regulators on Wednesday denied a company's request to construct a high-voltage power line in Missouri that was planned for a multistate wind energy project.

Hundreds of Milwaukee County union bus drivers went on strike early Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of commuters scrambling to make alternative plans to get to work and elsewhere.

Of countless ghostly abandoned factories and mines in Japan, this fortress island near Nagasaki is among the most notorious.

An Oklahoma woman can pursue a jury trial after she was injured when her fireplace crumbled in an earthquake she claims was caused by saltwater waste pumped into the ground, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE MBIA Inc., down $1.95 to $6.37 The financial guarantee insurance company's shares fell as Puerto Rico's governor warns that the island can't pay its $72 billion public debt.

Cisco said Tuesday that it plans to buy privately-held OpenDNS for $635 million to boost its network security business.

Investment firm Blackstone is selling the security services company AlliedBarton to French investment firm Wendel SE for about $1.67 billion AlliedBarton, based in Philadelphia, has more than 3,300 customers and more than 60,000 workers.