Ric Bucher with the start of NBA free agency

David Wright doubled twice and drove in two runs and the New York Mets salvaged the final game of their Caribbean trip, beating the Florida Marlins, 6-5

White Sox closer Bobby Jenks will come off the bereavement list on Friday to join the club in Texas.

Reuters – Steven Barber’s indie World War Two documentary “Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story” is having a payoff.

AP – President Barack Obama’s new health coverage for uninsured people with health problems won’t be cheap — monthly premiums as high as $900, administration officials said Wednesday.

AP – A former executive of bailed-out insurance company American International Group Inc. says if he had been allowed to keep his job, he could have saved taxpayers a bundle.

When biomass burns to form charcoal, it stores carbon rather than releasing it as carbon dioxide. So could triggering forest fires save the planet? It’s easy to imagine that biomass burning such as forest fires add significantly to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Thailand’s economy appears to be shrugging off the recent political turmoil, with government growth forecasts being revised up for the second time in three months.

A developing standard for exchanging social information is being tested by Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.

A new service mines the contents of Web pages looking for meaning and relevance. Search is one of the main tasks performed online, and yet often it doesn’t work as well as it should.