On Thursday, 49 states reached a $25 billion deal with the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers says Colorado will get about $205 million as part of a multistate settlement with the nation's five largest national banks over home foreclosures.

General Motors has found a new use for a building that's sat vacant at its Buffalo-area manufacturing complex for seven years.

A Purdue University agronomist says Indiana's winter wheat crop is healthy and on track despite wet weather at planting time last fall. Those wet fields have slightly reduced the state's wheat acreage, though.

The Florida House is moving ahead with a nearly $69.2 billion budget.

An heir to the Guerlain perfume empire went on trial Thursday in Paris on charges he made racist insults on national television.

The House on Thursday joined the Senate in voting to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other top officials from making investments on insider information. But an effort to bridle purveyors of Capitol Hill political intelligence could delay the bill's enactment.

A new report says production cutbacks by Toyota and Honda after the Japan earthquake and Thai floods hit Hawaii's new vehicle sales especially hard in 2011.

The nation's natural gas supplies shrank last week, the government said Thursday.

THE NEWS: Pepsico Inc. plans to cut 8,700 jobs, about 3 percent of its 300,000 global work force, in a restructuring. The company also reported fourth-quarter earnings rose 4 percent. Adjusted results beat expectations.

Clothing and school supplies would be tax-free during an annual Colorado "sales tax holiday" that cleared its first hurdle in the state House Wednesday.

Wholesale businesses increased their stockpiles sharply in December although the gains are expected to slow in coming months, a development that could curb overall economic growth.

More than two years after it came clean about its addiction to debt, Greece may finally have begun its long and painful road to recovery.

Two of the architects behind Ford's remarkable turnaround are retiring, and their departures have intensified the guessing game over who will become the next CEO.

The stock market finally got a deal in Greece, but it didn't produce much of a rally.

A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.