Wall Street Journal

Like stories about people doing dumb things while driving? The letters section of The Times received the following e-mail the other day. They forwarded it to me -- I'm the transportation reporter -- thinking (correctly) that I would be interested. The letter is from Jessica Bradshaw of Anaheim, who found herself driving on the eastbound Santa Monica Freeway last week and saw something a bit disturbing.

Like stories about people doing dumb things while driving? The letters section of The Times received the following e-mail the other day. They forwarded it to me -- I'm the transportation reporter -- thinking (correctly) that I would be interested.

While Wall Street was melting down this week, a bunch of friends went on vacation to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. They enjoyed the sunshine, dined together and uploaded photos and videos, including one of themselves lip-syncing to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing.

NEW YORK -- Wall Street extended its gains today after a pair of economic reports pointed to the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates stable when it meets later this month.

News Corp. named Wall Street Journal Publisher Robert Thomson as the newspaper's managing editor Tuesday, putting Chairman Rupert Murdoch's stamp on the second-largest U.

No one wants to utter the word "depression." But the truth of the matter is that the American economy may be entering a state of free fall. Every day brings more bad news about the sub-prime mortgage debacle, about home foreclosures, construction industry slowdowns, a credit drought for consumers and businesses, oil price shocks and the open-ended devaluation of the dollar.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Thursday that it was cutting jobs in its fixed-income business as investors braced for a multibillion-dollar write-down next week of the bank's high-risk loans and other assets.

The amount of U.S. commercial paper outstanding grew this week for the first time since August, suggesting that distress in the short-term debt markets was easing.