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Pair Drove Utility Vehicle on Train Tracks, Cops Say The two men allegedly stole a utility vehicle from the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum late Wednesday and drove it on the tracks abandoning it at the Short Hills train station, police say.

US credit card giants Visa and Mastercard sued retailers that rejected a multibillion-dollar settlement over transaction fees and asked the court to rule the fee practices weren't illegal.

The Treasury Casino could be supersized, but a Galaxy poll has revealed a majority of voters want the Newman Government to maintain the status quo.

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Think about your last visit to a Costco or Sam's Club, their brightly-lit stockrooms with aisles wide enough for a small flatbed, near the variety of a Middle Eastern bazaar without the haggling, and enough free samples to cover lunch on a Saturday.

After the citizens group "Don't Box the Neck" successfully stopped Lowe's Home Improvement from building a store in Pawleys Island in 2005, many believed there would never be another big-box fight.

Trans World Entertainment's f.y.e. stores are looking to pick up where Best Buy is leaving off in terms of disc sales.

These are challenging days for customers who are paying attention. I am uncomfortable with the ubiquitous term "consumer," as it denigrates our responsibilities as citizens and participants in the marketplace.

Like many investors when I began building portfolios I focused on stocks. I hoped to build a portfolio that would ultimately rain down dividends.

I'm really rather amazed that I got the opportunity to watch this in the first place.

Target, Macy's and JC Penney are among a group of retailers that filed a lawsuit Thursday against Visa and Mastercard.

When you know a relationship with a woman is going to do nothing but get worse quickly, most sensible people will kick her/him to the curb.

Stephen Greenhouse on how American retailers like Wal-Mart and Gap are opposing proposed regulatory plans for factory conditions that produce clothing precisely because they might be legally binding and thus mean something.

In the uproar about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry about condoms and our sons.

After meeting for about seven and a half hours, the Raytown Board of Aldermen voted 6-4 early Wednesday to allow a change that paves the way for a Wal-Mart grocery store in its downtown.

On a 4 to 2 vote, the New Berlin Common Council approved a rezoning and a change in the city comprehensive plan that will clear the way for Walmart to apply to build a super center on Greenfield Avenue about a block east of Moorland Road.

Updated at bottom to explain that the city election web site's confusing "7.52 percent reporting" is wildly misleading.

Millions of dollars of construction projects in Sioux Falls are being delayed and it's not because of the weather.

MADISON, Alabama - The debate over whether to raise taxes seems to mirror the city's attempt to ban smoking indoors six years ago.

A group of 19 retailers including 7-Eleven, Alon Brands, Wal-Mart, Costco and Starbucks are opting out of a pending class-action settlement with Visa and MasterCard , potentially setting the stage for more battles over transaction-processing fees, said Dow Jones.