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A poster in Jim Tarbox's office at his North Kingstown Chrysler Jeep dealership declares: "Challenge: The harder the course, the more rewarding the triumph."

Precious metals were pressured this week with the U.S. dollar pushing higher. London gold and silver fell after gaining last week.

Platinum declined for week four. New York crude-oil and U.S. stocks tumbled Thursday in a holiday shortened week while European stocks were split Friday but closed down on the week as well.

Three women donned scuba masks and jumped into the waters off Oahu's North Shore, floating inside a submerged cage as about a dozen sharks glided toward bloody fish scraps tossed into the water by a tour company.

California voters gave Arnold Schwarzenegger a single, blockbuster-sized mission when they sent him to Sacramento six years ago in an unprecedented election: Fix California's chaotic budget system, once and for all.

The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all.

As President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate. In Europe, free, state-run health care is a given.

John Fallan's trained eye scans rows of iceboxes brimming with tiger fish and shrimp in a Vietnamese supermarket, searching for one pesky fish that threatens the health of seafood lovers.

Spartan Stores Inc. is launching a campaign aimed at promoting Michigan pride.

When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy.

A leaked AT&T memo notes that the launch day for the iPhone 3GS generated their "best-ever sales day in our retail stores." Note, this is for AT&T stores, not Apple stores.

Unfortunately, while the memo had some numbers regarding text messages on the day Michael Jackson died, it had nothing numbers-wise about the iPhone 3GS, but lots of superlatives.