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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A flashy Las Vegas entrepreneur who became a billionaire at the height of the dot-com bubble was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for stock fraud, capping a seven-year investigation that led to seven convictions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A flashy Las Vegas entrepreneur who became a billionaire at the height of the dot-com bubble was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for stock fraud, capping a seven-year investigation that led to seven convictions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A flashy Las Vegas entrepreneur who became a billionaire at the height of the dot-com bubble was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for stock fraud, capping a seven-year investigation that led to seven convictions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A flashy Las Vegas entrepreneur who became a billionaire at the height of the dot-com bubble was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for stock fraud, capping a seven-year investigation that led to seven convictions.

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Graduating from the Disney Channel to grown-up star often requires a change of wardrobe, but lately it seems to involve ditching a chastity belt for a straitjacket.

Time Warner is working to split AOL's access and advertising businesses by next year, a move that would make it easier to sell off one or both. The company has been in continual discussions with both Yahoo and Microsoft over AOL's Web sites and ad op...

By Mike Noe: When Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1908, American Indians were still referred to as "wild" by famed Rocky Mountain News journalist Damon Runyon. Delegates were entertained by snow hauled in from the nearby mountains. And the Rocky chronicled the convention in a broadsheet format. It would be three more decades before Colorado's first newspaper would take a chance on publishing in the tabloid format that its readers still embrace today. To say the least, 2008 was a far cry from that 1908 DNC. A staff of 150 field journalists covered this year's convention 24 hours a day for five straight days, posting vignettes, photos and video to RockyMountainNews.com. So much content poured into the site at once that we used two scrolling windows on the home page to channel the flow of information. A nurse at a local hospital told me she was glued to the site throughout the week, checking back whenever she could to see the latest updates on protests,

Around the same time a mental health counselor was talking online to an undercover detective in Pinellas County about having sex with the detective's fictional young sons, he was chatting with another...

The New York Times has released an anthology of the front pages since its first edition in 1851. executive editor Bill Keller tells NPR what his favorite pages are — and why he's attached to the printed paper.

By Gina KeatingLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Media shares, already battered by months of shrinking consumer confidence, are at multi-year lows and prime for an investor buying spree, but analysts disagree on whether the bottom is near.