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No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store
NEW YORK — Amazon is aiming to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, the latest sign that Amazon is serious about […]
Flag Day celebrates right not to salute, pledge allegiance
Supreme Court's historic Flag Day decision leads news summary including FBI surveillance, a rental contract and Ventura's million-dollar loss.
Md. group franchises its lice removal business
ANNAPOLIS — When M.J. Eckert and Nancy Fields launched their lice removal business, they underestimated the demand for their itch niche. The Annapolis-based Lice Happens was designed so workers could […]
T-Mobile launches campaign to lure iPhone users
NEW YORK — T-Mobile USA, the only “Big 4” phone company that doesn’t sell the iPhone, now wants to snag used ones from AT&T. Starting Wednesday, when Apple is expected […]
A decent cup of coffee but no souvenir at the birthplace of Dunkin’
I drove more than 400 miles for a coffee mug last weekend, and came away with a cup of coffee I've sipped a hundred times before.
Judge approves WaMu bankruptcy plan
WILMINGTON, Del. — After a long and contentious legal battle and more than three years in bankruptcy, Washington Mutual Inc. on Friday finally won court approval of a reorganization plan. […]
Starbucks to raise prices in certain regions
NEW YORK — Starbucks said Tuesday it is raising some prices regionally as it faces rising ingredient costs. The Seattle coffee chain is raising prices about 1 percent in the […]
Judge says boy can live with child-killer for now
SEATTLE — A Washington state judge ruled Monday that a teenage boy can keep living with his father and a woman who killed her own young daughters in 1991. The […]
Moving your practice
This past weekend, I attended a wedding for a dear high school friend in the city of Seattle. The weather was 72 degrees and sunny the entire time we were […]
Home-price index at lowest point since 2006 bust
WASHINGTON — Home prices in major areas have reached their lowest level since the U.S. housing bubble burst in 2006, driven down by foreclosures, a glut of unsold homes and […]
Man pleads guilty to hate crime in beating of Baltimore tourist
A New York man has pleaded guilty to a hate crime in the beating of a man he believed was gay at a Baltimore hotel. Thirty-year-old Ajit Kapur of New […]
Fly by night: Restaurants pop up, then disappear
SEATTLE — If you missed the fried rice with pungent shrimp paste at Shophouse Seattle on Monday night, well, too bad. The down-home Thai joint has already shut its doors. […]
