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Casino operator Las Vegas Sands says it earned $320.1 million during the fourth quarter as the company set an internal record for revenue, thanks mainly to more people gambling at its resorts in Macau and Singapore.

The average major league salary increased 2.7 percent this year to nearly $3.1 million, the largest rise since 2008.

Sprint Nextel Corp. President and CEO Daniel R. Hesse received total compensation valued at $9.1 million last year, a 26 percent drop from what he received in 2009, according to an Associated Press calculation of data filed with regulators.

(Boston University College of Engineering) Boston University Biomedical Engineers received a $4.1 million grant from National Institutes of Health to support their ongoing work to reduce the cost of sequencing an individual's genome to $1,000.

Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have jumped on board an effort to suspend California's global warming law by making a million-dollar contribution this week.

More than 1 million American households are likely to lose their homes to foreclosure this year, as lenders work their way through a huge backlog of borrowers who have fallen behind on their loans.

"Despicable Me" wasn't such a bad guy after all, it seems, opening at the top of the box office with an estimated $60.1 million.

Today, the company is announcing that it has secured $1 million in funding from The Time. This is on top of the $250K the company had raised in its pre-seed round.

More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history, following reports of four infant suffocations.

More North Dakota residents reported incomes of $1 million or more last year thanks to the state's booming oil patch.