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Plum position: T&F in ad campaign

KINGSTON – The owner of a local small business is featured prominently in a national advertising campaign for the American Express Plum Card.

9:11 AM

From online to in line

WEST PITTSTON – Until now, those wishing to order cheese, coffees and other foods from the igourmet.com warehouse had to go online, no matter if they lived in West Pittston or West Virginia. But in a rare move, the specialty foods retailer will open its doors to the public this Saturday.

Airport site could host new tenant

PITTSTON TWP. – The former Damon’s restaurant on land owned by the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport soon could be home to a new tenant.

Stronger dollar, weaker data pummel stocks

NEW YORK — Major stock indexes tumbled about 1 percent Thursday, but ended well off their lows. Energy and materials stocks logged the biggest losses as a jump in the dollar sent commodity prices tumbling. Meanwhile, an analyst’s downgrade of the chip industry pulled technology shares sharply lower.

Data signal a weak recovery

WASHINGTON — A gauge of future economic activity and a report on unemployment benefits signaled Thursday that the recovery likely will remain weak in the coming months.

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GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care - 11/20/2009

Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care _ and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," declared Jon Kyl of Arizona, the party's seco

Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote - 11/20/2009

Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. But the section's purpose is indisputable: to deliver $100 million or more in federal funds to the state. And in the process clear the way for one of

Texas high court agrees to rehear Exxon case - 11/20/2009

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with junk, sludge and even explosives to keep other companies from drilling there. A small drilling company that tried to enter the wells near Corpus Christi, and the lan

13 charged in $19M Central Oregon bank fraud - 11/20/2009

The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust. A federal grand jury in Eugene returned five separate indictments on Thursday that charged the principals in Desert Sun Develop


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