NEW YORK – Consumer spending during the crucial back-to-school season is expected to rise 1.4 percent this year, the NPD retail research group said on Monday. A study by The NPD Group (search) showed that consumers plan to spend $372 per child this year, up from $367 last year. The …
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NEW YORK – With his campaign for city council going no place fast, Victor Bernace (search) felt he needed something special to spark interest in his next fund-raiser. How about exotic dancers? The New York Democrat said Saturday he plans to have bikini-clad go-go dancers and men in nothing but …
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NEW YORK/SHANGHAI – Online media company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) is in talks to buy a stake in Alibaba.com (search), a Chinese business and consumer e-commerce site, in a move brokered by Japanese investor Softbank Corp., according to media reports. Forbes.com reported Sunday that Yahoo was considering paying around $1 billion …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California National Guard (search), already under investigation for allegedly spying on a Mother’s Day peace rally, engaged in other surveillance activities involving citizens, a state senator said Thursday, citing a confidential Army report. Democratic Sen. Joe Dunn (search) accused the Guard’s acting adjutant general of deliberately …
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MIAMI – The federal government has dropped subpoenas that sought notes from The New York Times (search) and the writer of a series of 1998 articles about a former CIA operative and Cuban militant. The attorney for the newspaper and writer Ann Bardach (search) said Tuesday that U.S. Attorney R. …
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DENVER – A Grammy-winning musician and husband of ABC news reporter Elizabeth Vargas (search) was treated at a hospital and released Monday after being shot in the head during an attempted carjacking following a performance. Marc Cohn (search), who had a hit with the song “Walking in Memphis” and won …
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HELSINKI – Finland’s Nokia (NOK), the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, picked insider Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (search) to take over as chief executive next year from Jorma Ollila (search), who will step back to become part-time chairman. Kallasvuo, who currently heads Nokia’s biggest division, Mobile Phones, will take over as chief …
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NEW YORK – A Roman Catholic monsignor named in court papers as “the other man” in a divorce case resigned Thursday as rector of St. Patrick’s Cathedral (search), the New York archdiocese said. Cardinal Edward Egan accepted Msgr. Eugene Clark‘s (search) resignation from the key church position despite the 79-year-old …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For a down-home “Mississippi Girl,” Faith Hill (search) sure cleans up well — from magazine covers and a Hollywood film to a celebrity marriage with country star Tim McGraw (search). But Hill’s new album “Fireflies” finds her embracing her small-town roots. The album, which debuted this week …
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