Oil prices climbed sharply Wednesday after OPEC, the cartel that produces 40 percent of world crude, held current output quotas unchanged despite a recent runup in prices. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for April delivery rose 1.23 dollars to close at 82.93 dollars a barrel. London's Brent North Sea crude for May delivery leapt ...

Burton Snowboards, the snowboard innovator whose name has been synonymous with Vermont since the dawn of the sport, is ending its manufacturing operations in the state, moving 43 jobs to Austria, the company announced Tuesday. Burton Manufacturing Center, in South Burlington, which manufactured a portion of the ...

The head of a Georgian mafia ring smashed by police from several European nations escaped arrest due to a lack of cooperation from Greek police, Spain?s anti-corruption prosecutor said Tuesday. "We did not perhaps have the necessary cooperation on the part of those (Greek) security forces to complete the arrest of the group's top chief," Antonio Salinas told ...