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Will financial-market turmoil be the Grinch this Christmas? With parents already facing high food and gas costs and slumps in the job and housing markets, the turmoil in the financial sector could further spur them to cut their spending, focus on less-...

This is how bad the economy's going: Even the sweater-tied-around-the-neck crowd is hurting. I found this out when I took in the big United States Sailboat Show this past weekend at Annapolis' City Dock. On the surface, everything looked fine. The...

Martin Luther King Jr. graces one page, Angelina Jolie the next. A photo of a man on fire opens the Book of Revelation. And laid across a two-page image of gasoline spilling from a pump is the quote that begins, "The whole earth was amazed and followed...

Mars Inc. Headquarters: McLean, Va. Recent moves: Buying Chicago's Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. to become world's largest candymaker Founded: Frank C. Mars, in 1911, in Tacoma, Wash. Products: Candy, packaged food and pet food Original product: Butter cream...

Buy or sell; stay in or cash out? Investors face these questions after one of the wildest-ever weeks on Wall Street. More long-term investors worry a stay-the-course strategy may no longer hold true for retirement savings. "This is not a normal market...

Occupational licenses by county, compiled by Market Force PA of New Smyrna Beach. Lake Camarillos Masonry Inc., masonry, 25305 County Road 561, Astatula, 34705. Flying Scissors, retail, 1120 E. State Road 50, Suite D, Clermont, 34711. Admire Care LLC,...

Accounting McGladrey & Pullen LLP, Orlando, has promoted Kerensa Butler to partner in the firm. Architecture Perkins+Will, Orlando, has hired Alberto Sanchez de Fuentes as a health-care architect and Anne Briggs and Binh Nguyen as designers. BRPH Cos....

The Twin Ports have a lot to lose if the Great Lakes don't have enough icebreaking capacity to ensure cargo moves on time this winter. Together, docks in Duluth and Superior, Wis., moved 47.9 million tons of cargo last season -- more than their peers in...

Du Pont grew from gunpowder mills along the Brandywine into a global chemical pioneer and household name, but part of Delaware's first family of industry left a little-known legacy. E. Paul du Pont built cars -- though not many of them. From the...

Crystal Lake-based J.A. Frate's customer-service policy is designed to please. "The answer is yes, what's the question?" is the way President Joe Alger puts it. "We're always willing to work something out." Alger takes a similar approach with employees,...

LOS ANGELES—The pharmacy business is cutthroat. Just ask John Tilley, the owner of four small drugstores in the Los Angeles area. The pharmacist has seen chains such as Sav-on, Thrifty and Drug Emporium fade away. In their place are ever-larger...

Allan H. Spear, a former state Senate president who became one of the first openly gay legislators in the country, has died. He was 71. Spear died Saturday of complications following heart surgery on Thursday, said Don Jorovsky, a longtime friend who...