Small businesses operate on thin margins and have less room to negotiate costs. That's why they are feeling the pain from rising gas prices in a slowing economy.

Political newcomers Eric Helland, a Republican from Grimes, and Richard Sosalla, a Democrat from rural Elkhart, will go head-to-head for the Iowa House District 69 seat in the November general election.

The deep-throated roar of a big bore diesel engine wrapped in a sleek chrome grill announced the arrival today of the world's most innovative big-rig truck.

DAYTON — Since the start of the year, 935 trucking companies with five or more trucks have gone belly up because of rising fuel costs, according to a report by Donald Broughton, a longtime industry analyst with Avondale Partners LLC.

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's demand for services fell for a second month as squeezed profits began to affect employment and paychecks, dimming prospects for consumer spending to support the world's second-largest economy.