Updated: 12:53 PM For the first time, the health insurance industry is offering to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to sick people.

Updated: 11:40 AM Some pullback had been expected after the Dow Jones industrial average surged 498 points on Monday.

Posted: 8:07 AM A more than 150-year-old hotel famous for offering cat companions for feline loving guests has closed its doors.

Posted: 9:14 PM Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the severe banking crisis shows the U.S. financial system failed a major test and is in need of an overhaul.

Updated: 9:05 PM While we hear the bad news of companies downsizing and shutting their doors, one business announced Monday that more jobs are coming to Southern Colorado.

Posted: 4:49 PM New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says 15 employees who received some of the largest bonuses from American International Group have agreed to return the money in full.

Posted: 11:34 AM President Barack Obama says his team is "very confident" that the latest bank rescue plan will work to free up credit.

Updated: 2:47 PM President Barack Obama is telling energy entrepreneurs that their creative work is necessary to turn the economy around.

Posted: 11:01 PM There's a little more relief for motorists at the gas pump.

Updated: 11:25 PM They need hundreds of workers and they need them by July 2ND, 2009. We're talking about the casinos in Cripple Creek.

Posted: 2:34 PM The Triple Crown Casinos and the Bronco Billy’s Casino of Cripple Creek are hiring up to 500 new employees. The need for these new employees stems from higher gaming stakes coming this July.

Posted: 11:01 AM President Barack Obama is telling federal agencies to limit the role lobbyists play in spending decisions and to work hard on cutting wasteful spending.

Updated: 10:21 AM Capitol Hill aides say the latest deficit figures produced by congressional economists show the federal budget deficit will exceed $1.8 trillion this year.

Updated: 8:50 PM President Barack Obama says his embattled treasury chief, Timothy Geithner, is doing an "outstanding job."

Posted: 8:45 PM Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she will accept just 69 percent of the estimated $930 million in federal stimulus funds that could flow to the state.

Posted: 8:40 PM Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has a few words to say about the fuss over the bonuses paid out bailed out insurer AIG: I told you so.

Posted: 1:31 PM Acting with lightning speed, the Democratic-led House has approved a bill to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from firms bailed out by taxpayers.

Posted: 1:23 PM The Federal Reserve is expanding a $1 trillion program aimed at jump-starting consumer and small business lending.

Posted: 9:23 AM No matter how well Colorado may be spending its $2 billion in federal stimulus money, an oversight board says the state is doing a lousy job answering public questions about how recovery spending works.

Posted: 5:55 PM The auditor of Crocs Inc. says it has "substantial doubt" about the Niwot-based shoe company's ability to stay in business amid falling revenue.

Updated: 1:40 PM The head of financially strapped AIG is telling Congress he's heard the rage over executive bonuses and has called on employees to voluntarily return at least half of the money.

Posted: 11:05 AM Sen. Michael Bennet says Colorado schools will get as much as $900 million in extra education aid, enough to save the jobs of thousands of teachers.

Posted: 7:56 PM Vice President Joe Biden is urging Democratic donors and supporters to use their influence to help get the president's budget approved by Congress.

Updated: 7:13 PM A top adviser to President Barack Obama's auto industry task force says bankruptcy is not the goal of the government's efforts to restructure General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.

Posted: 12:50 PM The Obama administration has rejected South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's request to use $700 million in federal stimulus cash to pay down state debt.