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Bank of America is back to basics — slenderized, stripped of its swagger and no more the largest banking institution in the nation.

Texas and a division of health care giant Johnson & Johnson reached a $158 million settlement in a Medicaid scam claim, granting the drug manufacturer to pay a fraction of the prospective $1 billion in penalizations and fines, which state functionaries had firstly sought.

President Barack Obama's verdict to provisionally barricade a pipeline from Alberta to Texas went over severely in Canada, but Canadian functionaries are confident it finally will get sanctioned.

Google announced that net profit during the fourth quarter of 2011 climbed to $2.7 billion as against $2.5 billion the year before as income zoomed 25% to $10.6 billion

After winning swift passage in December of a millionaire's tax addition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed the procedure of putting together the state financial plan was halfway completed.

A Tesxas woman was sent to jail for 45 years for killing her 6-year-old kid in a New Hampshire motel room.

A federal appeals court cleared the path for the instant enforcement of a novel abortion rule in Texas requiring physicians to carry out a sonogram before the process.

Women's Health has rated Plano at the sixth position in its fourth annual Healthiest Cities for Women rating.

President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are the country's most accepted man and woman — once again — in the twelve-monthly USA TODAY/Gallup survey.

Home prices in the United States dropped in the majority of key cities for the second consecutive month, further confirmation that the housing recovery will be rough and weigh on the broader financial system by the coming year.

Texas residents utilize additional energy than anywhere else in the United States.

Asian bourses dropped on Wednesday, with trading diluted by year-end vacations and blended financial news out of the U.S. and Japan.

S&P's stated that there is a greater number of sovereign and banking bonds in jeopardy of ratings downgrades due to its recent warning that it might slash the credit ratings on 15 euro zone countries.

Texas will necessitate oil and natural- gas operators to report the chemical constituents utilized in novel hydraulically fractured wells commencing in 2012.

Hong Kong topped the WEF’s 2011 index of financial market growth, replacing the U.S. and U.K. from the uppermost rankings for the initial time.

Oil dropped from a one-week peak in New York amid conjecture the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations will locate an output ceiling near existing fabrication levels at a gathering in Vienna today.

Announcing the U.S. objective is a flourishing Iraq, President Barack Obama assured monetary, political as well as military assistance to Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki after the last American military personnel leave the Middle Eastern country by 2011 end.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked a federal court to postpone a December 15 applicant filing time limit for state lawmaking and http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12/12/3589951/texas-redistricting-is-h... ">congressional races whilst the U.S. SC reviews novel election maps.

The federal administration forwarded Texas a waiver, which could mean billions more in Medicaid dollars to hospitals by the coming time, in return for having them work jointly to offer up better care for the poor.

Texas Instruments Inc. declined the most in about four months in New York trading after the firm’s fourth-quarter sales estimate fell short of analysts’ estimations amid feebler demand for electronics constituents.

The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday granted a request from Texas Republicans and stated that it would interfere in a significant argument over redistricting and the voting power of minorities.

A Plano man is confronting 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to sharing kiddy porn on the web.

Plano Model Lauren Scruggs confronts a novel reality after losing her hand and damaging her face when she walked into a plane propeller Saturday night.

Exxon Mobil expects to find good reserves of Gas around 10 natural gas wells and

The men at work are busy to use the new method of fracing the underground layers of rock and sand to unlock natural gas. This has been suggested as cost effective and efficient method.

However, it should be implemented with care.

Exxon expects the natural gas demand to be higher by nearly 50% by year 2030. As natural gas will emerge as a major fuel, coal consumption will be lesser in the days to come.

Fracing is much faster these days, which takes around 2 weeks, compared to months during the 1980s.