Bucs exercise Russell's option for 2010 Twins could be close to signing Crede Griffey's return may help bond Mariners Banned trainer an associate of A-Rod Astros' Hall sidelined by torn right labrum Twins eye deal with reliever Cruz Second baseman ..more

Tacoma police investigators working with a map drawn by a missing woman's boyfriend have found a duct-taped plastic bag, believed to contain a body, after digging in the yard of the man's home. Jessica Armstrong was 30 years old when she disappeared ..more

ROME, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Momentum grew on Saturday behind a proposed common European bond to help bolster fragile member states during the global economic crisis as the International Monetary Fund threw its weight behind the idea. Germany and France ..more

The United States and China have agreed to work together to stabilise the global economy and fight climate change. The pledge came out of talks in Beijing between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Clinton ..more

KANSAS CITY (AP) - Missouri's two U.S. senators continue to clash over the costs and benefits of the $787 billion federal stimulus package. Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill appeared Friday with Kansas City business leaders, who laid out how the ..more

SPOKANE, Wash. — The office of Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., says Michael C. Ormsby has been nominated to be the next U.S. attorney for Eastern Washington. Murray's office told The Spokesman-Review that Ormsby's name has been formally forwarded to The ..more

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says China is still confident in US Treasury bonds. "I appreciate China's continued confidence in US Treasuries," Clinton told reporters on Saturday after meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. China ..more

CINCINNATI — A Brown County Man was arrested in Florida Friday and charged with the murder of his wife in 1996. Sherrif's detectives arrested Richard L. Curtis, 59, Friday in Ocala, Fla. on a fugitive warrant. He was taken to the Marion County Jail ..more

Bini Smaghi also told a news conference on Saturday that details on how a common European bond would work remained unclear and that the problem in the interbank market was a lack of mutual trust in banks' finances rather than liquidity or monetary ..more

Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — German government bonds rose for a second week as signs the global recession is worsening pushed stocks around the world lower, fueling demand for the safest assets. The gains pushed the yield on the 10-year German bund below 3 ..more