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New Jaxport CEO Brian Taylor says things are heading in the right direction at the port.He says he wants to talk to numerous employees, customers and…

A new fund on the New York Stock Exchange is a collection of stocks in publicly traded companies that have one thing in common: the city they call home. The fund managers say it will be an opportunity for locals to invest in companies they know. If it succeeds, other cities could be next.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to bring the Japanese economy out of years of stagnation by pumping money into the economy and encouraging domestic consumption. But not everyone is seeing the benefits, and some say it's just a repackaging of strategies that have failed Japan before.

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced a plan to try and prevent American food companies from importing contaminated produce from abroad. The case of the poisoned pomegranates from Turkey shows that our safety systems for imported food, however helpful, are not foolproof.

The U.S. cross-country ski team is in the best position to win an Olympic medal in more than a quarter century. Its secret weapon? A pristine glacier — only accessible by helicopter — in the mountains high above Anchorage. It allows the skiers to train on snow throughout the summer.

Farmers are mining the sea for salt on the same shore where the salt industry boomed 170 years ago. Fans of local food are buying up the favorite condiment collected close to home.

Shavonnte Taylor was riding the subway in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, headed to a prenatal doctor's appointment — a few weeks before her due date. She was changing trains when contractions started. Fellow riders — including an EMT — sprang into action. And in a few minutes, right there on the platform, a healthy boy was born, appropriately at a station called L'Enfant (French for "The Child") Plaza.

The Labor Department says the U.S. economy added 162,000 new jobs last month. That's lower than many economists expected. Still, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.4 percent. Workers also had fewer hours on the job, and hourly earnings fell in July for the first time since last fall.

The only former state officeholder currently seeking the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nomination took a back seat during remarks made in Tallahassee

The new film American Made Movie explores the decline in America’s manufacturing workforce.That decline has had a devastating effect on our economy, but…