T-ball to semi-pro, local sports teams are marketing opportunities for small businesses. On football and soccer fields across the nation, small business owners are taking advantage of a huge marketing opportunity: sponsoring local sports teams.

Wildfire on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calif. 80 percent contained; no homes threatened. Authorities say a wildfire that has burned 450 acres of dry brush at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County is 80 percent contained.

Antioch College alums plan joyful reunion after 2-year ordeal over fate of Ohio school. The past two Antioch College alumni reunions have been cry-in-your-beer affairs. This year's reunion is shaping up as a champagne popper.

Rob Housman of the Cyber Secure Institute advocates using only the best IT to prevent attacks, reports Dan Kaplan.. As the calendar flips to fall, the Beltway remains embroiled in a bitter health care reform debate. Stubborn lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are butting heads to determine whether government should fund a public option designed to insure the tens of millions of Americans without coverage.Rob Housman wants to provoke a similar conversation on Capitol Hill. Except Housman, who founded the nonprofit, Washington D.C.-based Cyber Secure Institute (CSI) last year, is championing something else that he believes government must step in to reform: the assurance levels of security and other IT products.It is a cause that is not receiving even a fraction of the focus in Congress that health care is, but it is one in which Housman believes all Americans are similarly vested. His organization is trying to shake up the status quo by pushing government organizations and critical

First significant rain of season heads toward wildfire-scarred California. The first significant rain of the season is heading toward wildfire-scarred California.

MILAN (Reuters) - A Libyan man threw a bomb at an Italian army barracks in Milan early on Monday and was injured in the explosion, losing a hand, police said, but there was no immediate explanation of the motive for the attack.

Italian police detain 2 more suspects in Milan barracks attack, find bomb-making chemicals. Italian police detained two more suspects in a bomb attack on a Milan army barracks and found a large quantity of bomb-making chemicals during overnight searches, anti-terrorism prosecutors said Tuesday.

SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned on Monday that Asian export-promotion policies and large U.S. budget deficits could refuel global economic imbalances and put efforts to achieve more durable growth at risk if not curbed.

Icahn offers CIT Group $6 billion loan

The International Monetary Fund has cautioned Asian economies against prematurely withdrawing fiscal stimulus measures, saying the current fragile global recovery may stall.

The International Monetary Fund has cautioned Asian economies against prematurely withdrawing fiscal stimulus measures, saying the current fragile global recovery may stall.

SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - The time for the U.S. Federal Reserve to start pulling back its extensive support for the economy is not close at hand and policymakers have time to decide what sequence of steps they will take, San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen said on Tuesday.

SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - The time for the U.S. Federal Reserve to start pulling back its extensive support for the economy is not close at hand and policymakers have time to decide what sequence of steps they will take, San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen said on Tuesday.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A $29 billion trail from the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns ends in a partially deserted shopping center on a bleak spot on the south side of Oklahoma City.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A $29 billion trail from the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns ends in a partially deserted shopping center on a bleak spot on the south side of Oklahoma City.

Betty Gallagher, wife of former Associated Press general manager, dies in California at 93. Betty Gallagher, the wife of a former Associated Press general manager and president who helped him run the Berlin bureau after World War II, died Thursday. She was 93.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A $29 billion trail from the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns ends in a partially deserted shopping center on a bleak spot on the south side of Oklahoma City.

Fugitives burn prison and public market in Honduras. Police say escaped inmates set fire to a prison, a public market and a cultural center in western Honduras before authorities stopped the riot and captured 76 of the 79 fugitives.

Census data shows college graduates choosing urban, high-tech meccas in recession. Many college graduates are passing up industrial centers and former hotspots in the Southwest, which have been hit hard by the recession, in favor of life in urban, high-tech meccas. Their moves are fueling a resurgence of brainiacs in parts of California, North Carolina and Texas.

Census data shows college graduates choosing urban, high-tech meccas in recession. Many college graduates are passing up industrial centers and former hotspots in the Southwest, which have been hit hard by the recession, in favor of life in urban, high-tech meccas. Their moves are fueling a resurgence of brainiacs in parts of California, North Carolina and Texas.