Sales worsened throughout the quarter given the financial crisis, and previously strong markets such as Seattle, Portland and Spokane in the Northwest posted double-digit same-store sales drops, said Chief Executive Frank Blake on a conference call. On the international front, Canada also began to feel some economic pressure and posted negative same-store sales along with [...]
A former Republican mayoral candidate who hoped to auction his home to help pay legal expenses for his trial on campaign finance charges ran into a roadblock when the house failed to sell.
Kelty’s legal battle has proven costly since he was indicted on nine counts by an Allen County grand jury last August, three months [...]
Gao Ping’s arms are still bruised and scratched from scrambling over boulder-strewn roads and dodging rain-slick landslides.
The 43-year-old migrant worker wasn’t here when the earthquake struck on May 12. Instead, he is one of millions who had left their hometowns for better jobs in their country’s white-hot economy, only to race back on a wrenching [...]
The cricketers international career is hanging by a thread after revelations that he was out drinking the night before the final one-dayer against England.
He publicly apologised at a press conference called by his employer, NZ Cricket, in Christchurch this afternoon.
Ryder said he regretted the incidents that saw him go on drinking binges before and after [...]
With him standing tall at one end and Brendon McCullum laying waste at the other, the Black Caps defeat the visiting English 3-1 in a series few gave them a chance of winning. But then Jesse Ryder goes out drinking with his new teammates, rips his hand to shreds trying to get into a locked [...]
Ryder forced to do charity work
The cricketers international career is hanging by a thread after revelations that he was out drinking the night before the final one-dayer against England.
He publicly apologised at a press conference called by his employer, NZ Cricket, in Christchurch this afternoon.
Ryder said he regretted the incidents that saw him go [...]
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The cricketers international career suffered from revelations that he was out drinking the night before the final one-dayer against England.
He publicly apologised at a press conference called by his employer, NZ Cricket, in Christchurch this afternoon.
Ryder said he regretted the incidents that saw him go on drinking [...]
One of the oldest and smallest schools in Lancashire has won the national David Bellamy Award for Environmental Cleanliness 2007. Brabins Endowed Primary School beat over 350 entrants from around the UK by preparing an entry which emphasised looking after the school, village and surrounding countryside. The �8000 prize was presented by Professor Bellamy in [...]
A Jiffy Lube franchisee with 13 stores and more on the way is moving its headquarters from Lodi to West Sacramento as it prepares for a growth spurt.
Don Fowler’s Broadbase Inc., which operates Jiffy Lube stores from Fresno to El Dorado Hills and employs about 150, is scheduled to occupy 10,000 square feet of [...]
Dominion Virginia Power says people have bought nearly 569,000 energy-saving light bulbs under its discount program.
The Richmond-based utility is offering $1.50 off single packs and $3 off multipacks of compact fluoresecent bulbs purchased at Home Depot stores in northern, eastern and central Virginia.
In three months, customers bought 568,822 bulbs, which consume about 75 percent less [...]