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Valley View school board postponed a vote on whether to raise the amount for which it’s asking from property taxes this year. Assistant Superintendent Garrick …...

The probation sentence handed down to former KB Home chief Bruce Karatz on Wednesday was the latest in a string of disappointments in the Justice Department’s crackdown on stock options backdating. The criminal investigations began in 2005, following...

Facing a budget gap that could exceed $6 million, Naperville City Council members floated ideas and debated slashing services Tuesday night. As the council works …...

Just days before investors would have their say on Walt Disney Co.’s executive pay, the entertainment giant changed the contracts of its top executives to remove a generous perk that had come under fire from an influential shareholder advisory firm....

David Zaslav, chief executive of the Maryland-based Discovery Communications Inc., was awarded a compensation package valued at $42.6 million in 2010 -- more than triple his compensation for the previous year. That's a lot of TLC. Discovery owns such...

Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings will need a few more zeros on his paycheck if he wants to be considered a real Hollywood mogul. Hastings' 2010 compensation doubled to $5.5 million in 2010, according to the Los Gatos, Calif., company's......

Naperville City Council members saw they had enough cash on hand to close the budget gap for 2012 — but stopped short  Monday of settling …...

Four Florida counties asked voters to approve sales-tax increases in November – and voters rejected every one. To some Republican legislators in Tallahassee, that’s more evidence that Floridians are stretched too thin. “No referendum passe...

It's official -- Google is giving outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt a $100 million equity award. The award will be given out over a four-year period, which means Schmidt will remain with Google in some capacity over that time....

Irvine-based chip-maker Broadcom Corp. on Tuesday reported a profitable quarter, with record sales of $1.95 billion, a 45% increase over the same quarter last year. The company also announced a 12.5% increase in per-share dividend, to 36 cents per share.....

Chief executives of public companies have long had a ready answer when criticized about high pay: It's all about company performance. That argument has been put to the test by the toughest financial environment since the Great Depression. If...

Although cheaper prices and record-low mortgage rates have made homebuying increasingly attractive, tight lending standards continue to keep consumers on the sidelines. And while a beefed-up FICO score and documentation requirements may have slowed the...