NEW YORK – Sienna Miller (search) and Jude Law (search) have ended their engagement, months after he apologized for an affair with his children’s nanny, according to a published report. A London-based representative for Miller, who became engaged to her “Alfie” co-star last Christmas, refused comment Wednesday on the story, …

NEW YORK – Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC) said on Tuesday third-quarter profit fell slightly after Hurricane Katrina caused delays at the No. 2 U.S. defense contractor’s Gulf Coast (search) shipyards. Northrop, which builds warships at yards in New Orleans, and Pascagoula and Gulfport, Mississippi, suffered about $1 billion in damage …

NEW ORLEANS – The Army Corps of Engineers (search) pumped much of the remaining floodwater out of the city Saturday as tens of thousands of residents continued returning to dry neighborhoods to check on houses and reopen businesses. Water was still being pumped out of the heavily flooded lower Ninth …

NEW YORK – Stocks fell sharply Thursday as oil prices around the $60 level prompted a selloff in a battered transportation sector that spread to the rest of the market. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) was down 166.49 points, or 1.57 percent, to close at 10,421.44. The Standard & …

WASHINGTON – Business inventories (search) grew 0.3 percent in April, slightly less than expected, Commerce Department (search) data showed on Wednesday, while sales increased by 1.2 percent. Wall Street analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a 0.4 percent rise in inventories compared with a revised 0.5 percent increase in March. …

WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (search), a surgeon who had questioned Terri Schiavo’s (search) diagnosis during the intense national debate on whether to remove her feeding tube, said the autopsy documenting her severe brain damage brings “a very sad chapter to a close.” “She had devastating brain damage, …

EAST PALATKA, Fla. – Federal agents raided a migrant farm labor camp (search) where homeless men and women were kept in what labor officials called a version of modern-day slavery. Four people, including the camp’s owner, Ronald Evans, face federal charges in a case that officials said is likely to …

WASHINGTON – The government is checking a possible case of mad cow disease in the United States in an animal previously cleared of being infected, the Agriculture Department (search) said Friday. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns (search) said more tests were needed to confirm the disease, but he emphasized that the …

NEW YORK – Gwen Stefani’s (search) fall tour in support of her album “Love.Angel.Music. Baby (search)” will kick off in Phoenix on Oct. 16. The Harajuku Lovers Tour, which coincides with the launch of Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers line of accessories, will feature the Black Eyed Peas (search). Stops on the …

Twice as many Americans are more worried about rising health care costs than losing their job or being the victim of a terrorist attack, according to a new survey. Researchers found 45 percent of American adults are “very worried” about having to pay more for their health care or insurance, …