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Mark Cuban last month purchased Mustang, Texas, all 77 acres, with a population of 23 people. He told the Dallas Morning News that he bought the town because "a friend needed to sell it."

Federated Department Stores plans to acquire May Department Stores for more than $11 billion in cash and stock. Federated owns Macy's and Bloomingdale's among other retail chains. May operates Lord & Taylor, Marshall Field's and others. The combined company will have about 1,000 stores and nearly $30 billion in annual sales.

CAMDEN, Maine - The former head of a Midcoast charity, who alledgedly embezzled more than $4 million from the organization, has agreed to reimburse his…

Do portable air cleaning machines really help reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the home? The frustrating short answer: "It depends." Find out what it depends upon.

The people of Beirut are still reeling from the effects of the deadly port explosion a year ago — and asking that leaders who could have prevented it be held responsible.

Many major banks are still crippled by bad investments on their books. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he wants to set up an investment fund to buy up a lot of those toxic assets. Details aren't clear, but it appears Treasury wants to use public money to entice private investors to buy up those problematic assets.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of forensic accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, about how to protect yourself from online fraud while holiday shopping.

Movie Pass — which lets people go see one movie per day for $10 a month — has new competition. AMC theatres is now offering three special format movies a week for a set monthly price. But Movie Pass has always had competition from Netflix. The question really is do you want to go out or stay in tonight?

Maine's state auditor announced Friday that he is stepping down after failing two exams needed to become a certified public accountant, a requirement for the post he was elected to last year.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's internal accountability system is "broken," says Andrea Guerrero of Alliance San Diego. Her group says independent and external investigations are needed.