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The number of investment deals for Chicago-area venture companies in the first three quarters of the year has already exceeded the total for all of 2010, according to data released Friday by Dow Jones VentureSource. Twelve local companies received investment in the third quarter, bringing the years total so far to 48. For the full [...]

11:20 pm | Updated It is one of the more momentous tasks facing the Cuomo administration: turning around New York City’s ailing mass transit system, the largest in the country. But on Thursday, in choosing the next head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo looked not to a transportation expert but to [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Factory activity in the US mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly expanded in October to its highest level in six months, rebounding from recent weakness, a Federal Reserve survey showed on Thursday. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said its business activity index jumped to 8.7 from minus 17.5 the month before. That far exceeded [...]

Foreclosure activity soars in third quarter, ending lengthy lull The number of notices of default jumps 25.9% from the second quarter. The increase comes as settlement talks have stalled between banks and state attorneys general over the robo-signing scandal.

The nations second largest book retailer will soon open a store at the former Borders Books Music locations in Springettsbury Township. Though no firm opening date is set, Books-A-Million will move into the recently closed Borders location at the Meadowbrook Village Shopping Center soon, with the book chain eyeing a holiday season launch, said Joe [...]

ST. LOUIS, Sep 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Build-A-Bear Workshop(R) today announced that it is working with Microsoft Xbox 360 to introduce a new interactive entertainment experience for Guests. Starting October 11, select stuffed animals sold in all Build-A-Bear Workshop stores and buildabear.com(R) can be imported into the new Kinect for Xbox 360 game, “Kinectimals [...]

Left to right: Dianna Wallace with Guss; Robert Young with Jake; Anne Tiry with Hannah; Megan McQueen with Baxter; and Loree McQueen with Oliver. They belong to the all-volunteer Furry Friends Pet Assisted Therapy Services.

St. John’s Episcopal Church honors furry friends with ‘Blessing of the Animals’ Story Comments Image (3) Print Create a hardcopy of this page Font Size: Default font size Larger font size

Two of Newcastles major cultural facilities, the art gallery and library in Laman St, are closed indefinitely due to security concerns over fig protests. The campaign to save the streets iconic fig trees led to ugly scenes last week, and now police have insisted security be strengthened before work resumes on the removal.

ROCK HILL Usually, only fat-cat donors have to pay money to shake hands with their favorite presidential candidate. But on Sunday, nearly 200 voters from the Carolinas plunked down at least $26.75 the cost of a book to get a handshake, a smile and an autograph from surging GOP presidential contender Herman Cain. And they [...]