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Just a few days before the FCC is expected to vote on his proposal to revamp the E-Rate program, Chairman Tom Wheeler finds himself in a scramble for the three votes he needs to win approval for the program.

In their latest round of back-to-back earnings call presentations, Home Depot and Lowe's trotted out statistics for a weather-beaten first quarter, along with insights on what worked and what didn't.

Future development along State Route 9 in Milton, north of Bethany Bend to the Forsyth County line, will take on more of a mixed-use residential feel and less of a commercial feel.

There's no sugar coating it: E-commerce sales are booming. Forrester Research expects online retail sales to reach $414 billion by 2018 and to account for 11% of total U.S. retail sales, according to its "US Ecommerce Forecast: 2013 to 2018" report.

Ray Nagin's wife and children have made an eleventh-hour request to delay the sentencing of the disgraced former mayor, who is scheduled to find out Wednesday how long he'll spend in prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes while in office.

Philippe Mellier is calm and composed as we sit for our 30-minute session while nervous PR and marketing people hover over us on the floor of the JCK Las Vegas jewelry tradeshow.

Attorney General Martha Coakley said Monday her primary reason for running for governor is she believes she can help spur economic growth throughout the state -- not just in the Boston area -- that will benefit residents of all income levels.

A Bass Pro Shops rendering shows plans for the outdoor retailer's 14th Florida store, which is slated to be part of the Fruitville Initiative.

French retail giant Carrefour SA will shut down its Indian operations and close its wholesale stores in the country, as it exits underperforming markets to focus on reviving its French business.

The cable company is one entity everyone likes to hate. Perhaps this knee-jerk animosity is to blame for the rush to condemn Comcast's proposed $44 billion merger with Time Warner Cable.

WOODY MARSHALL/THE TELEGRAPHGlenn Smith explains Thursday how a change in zoning would allow a shopping center to be built across from his home on Zebulon Road.

Not all of the dozens of people who spoke out at the June 25 City Council meeting objected to the redevelopment plan for the Unico Towers site in downtown Jersey City, but many did, angrily telling the council that the construction of a residential project 50 feet above the current zoning guidelines would change the nature of one of the most ... (more)

More than half of this year's drug cases handled by Sylvania Township involve narcotics, and such hard-core drug cases in the township doubled last year from the year before.

Monday's Supreme Court ruling giving certain companies a right to raise religious objections to providing some types of birth control insurance to their employees leaves a number of important questions in its wake.

The legal community continues to buzz with rumors of tension at the Arkansas Supreme Court.

John and Angie Burrows came to City Hall to make the best preparations they could for their party this weekend.

Suppose Mr. Patel, a resident of Rochester, would like to buy shoes. This simple desire of his can be fulfilled in one of two ways.

A Hinton Transit bus waits by the stop outside the Athabasca Hotel Inn and Suites in Old Drinnan Town March 27. This is one of the more popular stops, averaging about 600 riders per month.

Editor's Note: The following is a series of questions and answers taken verbatim from a Lebanon Democrat questionnaire recently filled out and returned by each candidate in the District 7 Wilson County Commission race.

Meeker, who heads marketing communication firm Meeker Marcom , roused his backers with a stump speech that quoted Abraham Lincoln quoting the Bible, saying, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."