BRUNSWICK — Swedish-based Mölnlycke Health Care has secured $ 14.2 million in funding for a 79,000- square- foot research and production facility at Brunswick Landing. With that funding in place, the medical supplies producer is on track to hire approximately 80 employees for the site when the building is complete, according to Jim Detert, site […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has named Scott Thompson, president of eBay Inc.’s PayPal division, as its new CEO. The struggling Internet company has been without a permanent CEO since early September. It fired Carol Bartz after losing patience with her attempts to turn around the company during her 2 1/2 years on the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A flurry of post-Christmas shopping helped sales surge in the last week of December, according to a mall trade group’s report released today. Increased gift card use, mild weather and a federal holiday on Monday all contributed. Sales at stores open at least one year rose 5.3 percent during the week […]

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Bidders will get a chance later this month to buy two weapons once owned by Bonnie and Clyde. A tommy gun and a 12- gauge 1897 Winchester shotgun that were used by the infamous outlaw couple will go up for auction in Kansas City on Jan. 21. The Joplin Globe reports […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai is welcoming a possible deal that would allow Taliban insurgents to open an office in Qatar in order to hold talks with the United States. Karzai said today his government agrees with the establishment of the office because it could lead to an end of the bloodshed […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia woman has avoided prison after admitting she posted a Facebook offer of $1,000 for someone to kill her baby’s father. Nineteen-year-old London Eley pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit murder and was immediately paroled on a 3- to 23-month sentence. Investigators say Eley offered “a stack” […]

MOSCOW ( AP) — Fragments of a failed Russian space probe are now expected to fall to Earth on Jan. 15, officials said today. The unmanned Phobos- Ground probe was launched Nov. 9 on what was supposed tohavebeena21/2-yearmission to the Mars moon of Phobus to take soil samples and fly them back to Earth, but […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Alec Baldwin’s antics aboard an American Airlines flight have gotten him grounded as a spokesman for a New Yorkbased supermarket chain. A spokeswoman for Wegmans Food Markets tells Rochester media outlets that the company pulled television ads featuring Baldwin after some customers complained about his behavior that resulted in his being […]

BEIRUT ( AP) — Activists accused President Bashar Assad’s regime today of misleading Arab League observers by taking them only to areas loyal to the government and changing street signs to confuse them. According to the activists, regime loyalists also are painting military vehicles still inside of cities blue to make them look like police […]