Tyreke Evans has won hundreds of trophies in his young basketball career and many of them seem to have lost an arm, a basketball or some other piece in his mother’s care.
Bonita Evans will have to wait to get the NBA Rookie of the Year trophy Evans won Thursday until some safeguards are in place [...]

by: Martin Crutsinger and Tomoko A. Hosaka, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON — The Greek debt crisis sent a shudder through global financial markets and served as a dramatic reminder of how vulnerable the world economy remains to the threat of a fast-spreading financial panic.
To many, market developments this week served as a spooky reminder of [...]

Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Thursday sharply criticized Adobe Systems popular Flash multimedia software, calling it unreliable and ill-suited for mobile devices, escalating a pitched battle between the two companies.
Analysts said Jobs’ pointed, nearly 1,700-word manifesto — which Apple posted on its website — helped push Adobe’s shares down nearly 2 percent, as [...]

DALLAS – Southwest Airlines Co., which bumped more passengers than any U.S. carrier last year, has been fined $200,000 for violating rules on kicking passengers off oversold flights.
The Transportation Department said Tuesday that it reviewed passenger complaints and found many cases of Southwest failing to promptly pay bumped passengers and give them written notices of [...]

Tim Kiladze, Forbes.com
The metro areas with the nation’s poorest air quality
President Obama’s recent proposal to open some areas along the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coastline and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling elicited praise from drilling advocates and oil companies as well as sharp criticism from environmental [...]

Updated and adapted from the book “1,001 Things They Won’t Tell You: An Insider’s Guide to Spending, Saving, and Living Wisely,” by Jonathan Dahl and the editors of SmartMoney
1. “Welcome to our crowded plane.”
Just because you show up at the airport with a ticket reservation doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll end up on your intended flight. [...]

A huge NASA balloon loaded with a telescope painstakingly built to scan the sky at wavelengths invisible to the human eye crashed in the Australian outback Thursday, destroying the astronomy experiment and just missing nearby onlookers, according to Australian media reports.
In dramatic video released by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the giant 400-foot (121-meter) [...]

US computer giant Hewlett-Packard, in a bid to become a player in the fast-growing smartphone market, said Wednesday it was buying struggling US mobile phone maker Palm for 1.2 billion dollars.
HP and Palm said Palm stockholders will receive 5.70 dollars in cash for each share of Palm common stock they hold at the closing of [...]

PHOENIX – Challenges to Arizona’s tough new law targeting illegal immigration have started to emerge, with a Latino clergy group planning to file the first lawsuit seeking to halt enforcement of the crackdown and others aiming to block the law at the ballot box.
The National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders says it will [...]

by Jennifer LeClaire
As the iPhone 4G prototype scandal continues, Apple on Wednesday announced the date of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The Mac maker will host WWDC 2010 at San Francisco June 7-11.
Major highlights of the five-day conference include the first-ever iPad development sessions and hands-on working labs for iPhone OS 4.0, as well as [...]