| After Blowup, Spears Buys New Benz
After his public blowup with Britney Spears earlier this week, Sam Lutfi, her friend and sometimes manager, called celebrity news service TMZ.com Tuesday to defend himself. Explaining the Monday argument with Spears in front of her house, Lutfi said Spears' family had showed up unexpectedly at the pop star's home and intervened. .
ShopLocal Releases Multi-Channel Retail Index Figures for September ...
CHICAGO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ShopLocal(TM), the leader in multi-channel shopping and marketing services, today announced the October 2007 results for the ShopLocal Index, indicating a slow start to the shopping season. Compared to last year, the Index is up 22 percent in September/October, a significant slowdown from the 29 percent increase through the month of August. This is in spite of a 12 percent year-to-year increase in circular promotions by retailers in the September/October period. The ShopLocal Index is the advertising industry's first market indicator designed to track the influence of the Internet on in-store shopping. The Index, updated monthly, is based on the online activity of an average of 20 million monthly consumer visits to store promotions that are presented on the sites of 50 major U.S.
Shop owner hopes new store will feed Northwest Roanoke
The owner of an established neighborhood grocery store is bringing new flavor to Northwest Roanoke. Rett Ward, owner of Tinnell's Finer Foods in South Roanoke, will open next month a discount grocer on Melrose Avenue, a move that could benefit residents of a local neighborhood and enliven a blighted retail center. The new store is Save-A-Lot, a St. Louis-based chain that claims to sell common items at prices 40 percent lower than conventional stores. Its arrival was first reported by The Roanoke Times in August. It's slated for the former Office Outlet space, which fronts the Roanoke Salem Business Center, a once thriving shopping area that now houses industrial and service businesses. The 18,000-square-foot store will open Feb. 13. Ward said he'll continue to operate Tinnell's, a cozy specialty grocer on Crystal Spring Avenue founded in 1937 by his grandfather.
No Motive Found for Utah Mall Gunman
He didn't know his victims. He wasn't influenced by violent video games. Terrorism wasn't a factor. The young Bosnian immigrant who killed five people at a shopping mall nearly a year ago was a shy loner who uttered just two words during a random shooting spree that ended with his death in a storm of police gunfire. Salt Lake City police released their investigation of the rampage at the Trolley Square mall Tuesday, leaving unknown a motive for Sulejman Talovic's massacre two nights before Valentine's Day 2007. "None of the people interviewed believed the violent act ... could have been predicted," the report said. "All who were interviewed, including his family, were shocked and devastated by Talovic's actions." Wearing a bandolier of ammunition under his trench coat, Talovic, 18, fired his shotgun at least 29 times that night as he killed five people and wounded four more.
Northern buys new engines, testing equipment
Montana State University-Northern now has state-of-the art diesel equipment courtesy of the 2007 Legislature and donations to match the legislative grant. "The fact that the state has agreed to put those plugs into these programs is really a big thing," said Greg Kegel, dean of the College of Technical Sciences at Northern, adding that the fact that Havre's university received one of the largest grants is also a big thing. Northern used about $120,000 of a $345,000 legislative grant to buy 10 Cummins diesel engines to place in the Davey Pioneer Lab on campus. The 2007 Legislature appropriated one-time-only funds for schools to use to buy equipment, Kegel said. "(It was) to gear up the technical capacity of the technical schools, and Northern has a technical component," he said. The money was granted on a competitive basis, and Northern successfully wrote applications to receive one of the largest grants from the program, Hegel said.
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