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A: They're meant to reflect unusual costs that a company bears . The charges are often added back to company earnings, ostensibly to more accurately reflect the company's operating performance.

A 25-year-old suffered an injury when his hand got stuck in a machine at the Georgia-Pacific Dixie plant in Forks Township Friday night at about 8:50 p.m. Initial emergency reports indicated a man got caught in a machine, and just nine minutes later, a second alert stated the man was free from the machine with a hand injury.

Military facilities use contract workers during peak periods and their employment helps protect depot full-timers from layoffs when business declines.

From left: Terry Kroeger, CEO of Omaha World-Herald Co.; Doug Hiemstra, COO; Scott Searl, general counsel; and Duane Polodna, CFO, spoke to staff members of the Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 17.

Almost every day for nearly three weeks, Jon Butler rallied with fellow union strikers on the picket line.

The former International Paper mill in Isle of Wight is being reborn as fluff pulp plant employing about 220 people.

When Warren Buffett speaks, Wall Street listens. The 81-year-old Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has used his keen business sense to become one of the richest men in the world.

It was a "deal" of which billionaire Warren Buffett would have approved: two Buffetts for the price of one.

Four former executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's General Re Corp and one at American International Group Inc are in talks to settle a long-running criminal case accusing them of engineering a reinsurance transaction that fraudulently boosted AIG's loss reserves.

Renesas Electronics Corp., the world's biggest maker of automotive microcontrollers, plans to raise capital of 100 billion yen and eliminate more than 10,000 jobs, according to the latest draft of a restructuring plan, a person briefed on the matter said.

Kristi McCollom, a sales consultant with Pulte Homes, gives a tour of the "Madison" model home at Berkshire Park in Windermere this week.

Toyota is looking to emerging markets for growth, targeting 50 percent of its global vehicle sales there by 2015, and rolling out eight compact models over the next few years.

Gov. Jerry Brown tucked provisions into his budget that would limit payouts in wildfire liability cases, potentially saving timber companies and other major California landowners hundreds of millions of dollars as federal prosecutors pursue record-high damages in court.

Steam is rising again from a converted International Paper pulp mill in Franklin in preparation for next month's opening.

Prosecutors played a series of FBI wiretapped phone conversations in a bid to show that Goldman Sachs' former Indian-American director Rajat Gupta shared confidential information with convicted hedge-fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam.

Struggling designers will get a chance to show work inspired by the creativity and history of South Africa's most famous township in Soweto's first fashion week opening Thursday.

Tiffany & Co. says that its profit for the first quarter was essentially the same as a year ago as it saw slowing demand in the U.S. for its jewelry.

In this Aug. 27, 2010 file photo, a man walks into a Tiffany store on Wall Street in New York.

OMAHA, Neb. - Warren Buffett says his company is likely to buy more newspapers in the next few years, and Berkshire Hathaway will not try to influence the editorial policies of any of them.

The college, which opened last September, has been announced as a winner of a Royal Institute of British Architects' Craftsmanship award.