Agency builds on its mission

Top Business

• Patents

• Bankruptcies

• U.S. unemployment rate hits 6.1%

• Steven Cole Smith: Natural gas is viable option outside Florida

• Assemble across-the-board insurance coverage for your home

• Aircraft assembly workers strike Boeing Co. after contract negotiations fail

• FDA posts its first online list of drugs under investigation for safety problems

• Unemployment climbs past 6 percent for 1st time in 5 years, raising odds of economic tailspin

• Disney cruise ship to get Fantasia-themed splash pool, LCD TVs

• US stock futures point to huge rally following government bailout of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Nation/World

• Marlboro maker Altria Group buying producer of Skoal smokeless tobacco UST for about $10.3B

• Australia's St. George Bank agrees to revised takeover proposal by rival Westpac

• Report: China to require Coca-Cola bid for juice maker to undergo anti-monopoly review

• Oil rises as Hurricane Ike threatens oil operations in Gulf; traders eye OPEC meeting

• AP Top Business News At 9:13 a.m. EDT

Tourism

• Make your bid for JetBlue 'mystery' flights on eBay

• Last hurrah at famed fun park

• How TSA captured bomb suspect at OIA

• Judge OKs holding OIA bomb suspect Kevin Brown

• Bomb parts found -- OIA traveler detained

Insurance

• Q&A with insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty

Consumer Help Team

• No tax credit for Prius, but other hybrids eligible

• Students, read apartment lease!

• Want scoop on medical facilities? Check online

• Sentinel help team: How to avoid foreclosure

• Florida seniors tap jobs for extra cash, to relieve boredom

Technology

• Etan Horowitz: Be like Noah and prepare

• Etan Horowitz: Wireless networks and their many, creative names

• Forget to lock your home? Go online

• Finding the divine online

• Etan Horowitz: Comparing digital converter boxes for analog TVs

Personal Finance

• Stocks of local interest in the news