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Meg Whitman became CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. in September, replacing Leo Apotheker, who was fired after less than a year on the job. Here are some major decisions under her leadership:
Defense lawyers in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are seeking the testimony of former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama in a motion to dismiss charges, according to a legal motion released Wednesday.
A former track coach at a Jamaican high school testified Wednesday that a notorious drug kingpin sought his illegal services to obtain fraudulent visas for couriers -- including a young girl -- to smuggle drugs into the United States.
The government has announced a settlement requiring BP North America Inc. to spend more than $400 million to reduce pollution at an Indiana refinery.
A 9-year-old boy originally from Russia who was killed in a Nebraska house fire has been laid to rest, but prosecutors and the Russian government are seeking more information about his death.
Russia's prime minister paid a visit Wednesday to a farm that has imported cattle from the United States and also some American cowboys to help the Russians develop their struggling meat industry.
The first beluga whale born at the Georgia Aquarium died Wednesday, less than a week after her birth, the Atlanta attraction said.
A man wielding a knife broke into a Kansas television station Wednesday morning and stabbed two sales employees.
A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race.
A Paris court has convicted a member of new French President Francois Hollande's government for publicly insulting the management of a ferry company, but only fined him 4 euros ($5).
The Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe has unveiled preliminary plans for a resort casino in southeastern Massachusetts.
Rhode Island's gamble on former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company may be in jeopardy, but it could pay political dividends to Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who has vowed to protect a state investment in the company that he once opposed.
Massachusetts Senators have passed a budget amendment that addresses prostitution. The Senate voted in favor of adopting the measure during their Wednesday morning debate on the budget.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party has released its lineup of speakers for its nominating convention, including Gov. Deval Patrick and U.S. Senate hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Marisa DeFranco.
A Massachusetts woman says she was angry when she got an email from her son's fourth-grade teacher telling her that school personnel had pulled a loose baby tooth he had been playing with.
Bahrain has agreed to consider recommendations to release political prisoners, outlaw torture and join the International Criminal Court, a move that could open it to international prosecutions of alleged abuses, the U.N.'s top human rights body said Wednesday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and military leaders implored conservative Republicans on Wednesday to approve a long-spurned high seas treaty, saying it would create jobs, open a new path to oil, gas and other resources and bolster national security.
European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.
Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says.
Peru's Sea Institute said in its final report Tuesday on the mass die-off earlier this year of nearly 900 dolphins and porpoises that the cause remains unknown.
Trespassing signs along a historic ribbon of land from Clinton to Boston will be removed over the coming months, after state officials announced Tuesday they would make a network of trails over a century-old system of aqueducts accessible to hikers, bikers, or anyone seeking a stroll in the woods.
A substantial portion of the funding for Governor Deval Patrick’s two second-term international trade missions has come from a handful of powerful executives and companies with significant financial interests before the state. Through a non-profit established by his administration last year called Moving Massachusetts Forward, the Patrick administration collected $130,000 from five donors, according to ethics disclosure forms filed by the governor. Unlike campaign donations, contributions to the group have no limits and are tax-free.
The unlocking of natural gas reserves hundreds of miles away promises to benefit Massachusetts companies and the state economy.
For Obama, whose political star first rose in Boston when he delivered the keynote at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, the passion he engendered among Bay State donors in 2008 helped his campaign shatter presidential fundraising records. Four years later, the exuberance appears to have waned as the tough realities of governing set in, both according to some fundraisers themselves and as measured by the numbers. The number of Massachusetts donors giving the maximum has dropped by nearly half compared to the same time in 2008.
Peru's Sea Institute says in its final report on the mass die-off earlier this year of nearly 900 dolphins and porpoises that the cause remains unknown.
A decades-old jet fuel spill threatening Albuquerque's water supply could be as large as 24 million gallons, or twice the size of the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez, New Mexico environment officials acknowledged Tuesday.
