If the Ecuadoran judge handling the case follows the recommendations of a court-ordered team of experts, the case could result in the biggest environmental judgment. ...more

February 9, 2009

HOUSTON (AP) - Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago. ...more

February 1, 2009

The extraordinary profit for Exxon Mobil may be over for now, but opportunities abound even in a year that is expected to be miserable for the entire oil and gas industry. ...more

January 31, 2009

If you felt financially squeezed in the last few months of 2008, you weren't the only one. On Friday, the Commerce Department announced that the economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace in the final quarter, the worst showing in a quarter-century. ...more

January 31, 2009

HOUSTON - Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago. ...more

January 30, 2009

Economy Jolts Into Decline; Bad Recession Seen WASHINGTON (AP) - The government reported Thursday that the economy shrank in the summer, sending the strongest signal yet that a recession may have already begun. ...more

November 2, 2008

It's looking like a good year for big oil - again. ConocoPhillips, the first of the major oil companies to report earnings for the third quarter, said profits soared 41 percent as crude prices soared to record highs over the summer. The numbers posted by the third-largest U.S. oil company easily topped Wall Street forecasts. ...more

October 23, 2008

Sandra Kellmeier of Tarpon Springs challenges assertions in a political ad placed in The Suncoast News by the Tarpon Springs Republican Club. ...more

October 11, 2008

I was water-skiing with my children in a light drizzle off Hyannis, Mass., last month when a sudden, fierce storm plunged us into a melee of towering waves, raking rain, painful hail and midday darkness broken by blinding flashes of lightning. ...more

September 27, 2008

The frail and elderly were put aboard buses Wednesday and authorities warned 1 million others to flee inland as Hurricane Ike steamed toward a swath of the Texas coast that includes the nation's largest concentration of refineries and chemical plants. ...more

September 11, 2008