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In the 1990s, the singer-songwriter's debut album helped usher in a new wave of female musicians and established her as a folk powerhouse. Over the next decade, Jewel's repertoire expanded to include pop and country music. Her latest album, Sweet and Wild, holds true to her newer sound but revisits her folk roots with a bonus disc of acoustic versions.

Big box stores are working through an unexpected glut of inventory: TVs, kitchen appliances, hoodies and other hot pandemic items. Part of the problem is the bullwhip effect.

Department stores like Bed, Bath, and Beyond continue to shut down due to financial loss during the pandemic, but budget stores like Dollar General are popping up everywhere. We take a look at why.

Two undocumented immigrants died and ten more were hospitalized after 15 people were found suffocating in a shipping container in South Texas.

More is now understood about the sequence of events at Virginia Tech Monday, including gunman Seung-hui Cho's deadly classroom-by-classroom assault at Norris Hall. But questions remain.

The list of retail bankruptcies and store closures is growing. It's being predicted that store closures will rise 25 percent this year. It would be easy to blame the faltering economy, but there's more to it than that.

Princeton, Ind., a city of 9,000, is a place for which Toyota's troubles cut closer to the bone than for most. Toyota has a plant there, and there are several Toyota suppliers in or near Princeton. Mayor Robert Hurst discusses how the fallout from the recalls has affected the town.

Federal lawmakers are moving toward a ban on using certain chemicals called phthalates in children's toys. Phthalates are chemicals that are used to make plastics more flexible.

The Labor Department says the economy lost another 539,000 jobs in April. Although that's not a good number, it's better than some of the steeper losses earlier this year. The unemployment rate is at 8.9 percent.

Retailers are blaming thieves for falling profits. It's the biggest part of a problem called "shrink."