Early reports from U.S. retailers show modest revenue gains in July. Hot weather and deep discounts drove Americans into malls for summer bargains, but shoppers remained choosy.
The sluggish spending raises worries about the health of the back-to-school season as Americans step up saving amid a stalling economic recovery.
As stores report their results Thursday, several chains …
President
Permen Mortgage Corp.
Wilkes-Barre
Education: Hanover Area High School; AM banking finance certificate; various mortgage banking courses and certificates
Job responsibility: originating, managing and closing loans; customer service
Company description: mortgage broker
Most influential role model: Edna Thompson, my mother, who was strong in her values and faith and always gave the very best advice
Definition of a leader: …
Ford Motor Co. said Saturday it is recalling about 225,000 vehicles that were already repaired as part of an earlier recall to address concerns about a cruise control deactivation switch.
Ford says the affected vehicles represent a small portion of the about 10 million vehicles that have been recalled since 1999 related to the cruise control switch problem.
Ford spokesman Wesley Sherwood said the automaker plans to notify the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration next week about the latest recall, which was reported Saturday by The Detroit News.
Ford dealt with cruise control switch problem by installing new wiring harnesses in the …
According to the Learning and Skills Council West of England thereare four main reasons why young people and adults are put offlearning new skills.
Firstly, they often don't know how to find the right course, andsecondly, they don't want to commit to something they may not enjoy,or which may not be the right course for them.
The other two reasons are that they either don't have enough time,or they can't afford the fees.
This prompted the LSC to come up with the idea for Bite Size,which attempts to make learning and training opportunities asaccessible as possible to all people aged 16 and over in Bristol andsurrounding areas.
Bite Size offers hundreds …
Ten years ago, Chicago lawyer Stephen Durchslag began a uniquecollection of Passover prayer books. Today, his collection of 3,500Haggadoth - including one dating back to 1506 - is the largestprivate grouping of its kind in the nation.
"Why Is This Night Different? Passover Haggadot from theCollection of Stephen P. Durchslag" is on display now incommemoration of Passover (which starts Sunday) at the NorthwesternUniversity Library in Evanston.
The free public exhibit highlights 60 of Durchslag's mostremarkable books, including one Haggadah from Chicago that dates backmore than a century and depicts the pressures on Jews to assimilateAmerican values and behaviors …
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military, which preaches equal opportunities for women, says four female combat soldiers might have to leave their artillery battalion to make way for religious male soldiers who object to the mixing of the sexes.
The military maintains no final decision has been made, …
At least four Indonesian villages were obliterated by earthquake-triggered landslides that buried as many as 644 people including a wedding party under mountains of mud and debris, officials said Saturday.
The full extent of Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake was becoming apparent three days later as aid workers and government officials reached remote villages in the hills along Sumatra island's western coast.
If all 644 are confirmed dead _ as is likely _ the death toll in the disaster would jump to more than 1,300. The government's death toll currently is 715, with most casualties reported from the region's biggest city, Padang, where aid efforts are …
