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Mets' Catcher of the Future Has Memories of Wrigley
New York Times (free registration), The | 1 hour 45 minutes ago
CHICAGO As hard-core St. Louis Cardinals fans living in Breese, Ill., the Tholes cherished few things more than trips to Wrigley Field to watch their team play the rival Cubs.... (more)
Weis Markets plans flu shot clinics
Chain Drug Review | 2 hours 23 minutes ago
SUNBURY, Pa. ? Weis Markets this week began offering flu vaccinations at its pharmacies and later plans a round of flu shot clinics.... (more)
ShopRite in talks for an East Gun Hill Road store
New York Post | 6 hours 14 minutes ago
The community is hopeful that a large vacant retail space at an East Gun Hill Road shopping mall may soon be a supermarket.... (more)
Louisville flu shots here off to slow start
Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), The | 8 hours 25 minutes ago
Clinics, stores offer vaccine... (more)
Prices rebound at latest Fonterra auction
DairyReporter.com | 10 hours 19 minutes ago
Prices at the Fonterra globalDairyTrade auction have rebounded after two successive months of decline, suggesting renewed firmness in the market.... (more)
Business briefs
Detroit News, The | 16 hours 17 minutes ago
Business briefs Jaclyn Trop / The Detroit News State economic index rises to two-year high Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index climbed to its highest level in two years in July, rising to 87. ... (more)
Aeon's Interest in Carrefour Stores Reflects Struggles in Japan
Wall Street Journal, The | 22 hours 21 minutes ago
TOKYO?Aeon Co.'s appetite for Carrefour SA's stores in southeast Asia is an attempt to extend the Japanese retailer's global reach as the company struggles with weak consumer spending and heightened competition at home.... (more)
UPDATE: No oil in water after rig explosion
American Public Media/Marketplace | 22 hours 24 minutes ago
Marketplace's Eve Troeh gives an update about this morning's explosion on an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. No oily sheen on the waters, as previously reported by the Coast Guard, but the incident may hurt Louisiana's push for the White House to lift its Gulf deepwater drilling moratorium.... (more)
Michigan Kroger Workers Extend Contract
Supermarket News | 23 hours 40 minutes ago
MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. After workers at 17 Kroger stores in the Flint and Saginaw, Mich., areas rejected a labor contract offer from Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., they have agreed to extend the current pact until Sept. 15, reports said Thursday.... (more)
Upturn in Fonterra powders sets scene for futures trade
New Zealand Herald, The | 23 hours 43 minutes ago
Significant price lifts in Fonterra's internet auction of commodity milkpowders have set the scene for the start of NZX trading in global dairy futures contracts.... (more)
Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio
Wired | 1 day 29 minutes ago
> A new batch of sharp Martian close-ups from NASA's HiRISE camera were released on September 1. HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) has been circling Mars on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for four years now, taking dramatic photos of the red planet with a telephoto lens to make any paparazzi jealous. The camera can focus on objects the size of a beach ball from more than 180 miles away.... (more)
Big gains from Russia's troubles
New Zealand Herald, The | 1 day 1 hour 45 minutes ago
Prices in dairy co-operative Fonterra's online auction bounced back strongly yesterday with the world feeling the effect of a Russian wheat export ban.... (more)
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