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Bedford bar seriously damaged by two-alarm fire
BEDFORD - Just two days before Thanksgiving, a two-alarm fire tore through 1750 Taphouse causing extensive damage. According to the Bedford Fire Department, while en route, firefighters could see smoke billowing from the business at 170 Rt. 101 and called for a second alarm. Upon arrival, ...
What’s open on Thanksgiving? Not much, as many stores rest — or prepare — ahead of Black Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season this week, Americans will again gather for Turkey Day meals before knocking off items on their Christmas gift lists. Most big U.S. retailers are closed on Thanksgiving Day. However, many will open early ...
New limits for a rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices
Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal prosecutors to end what critics said was illegal “algorithmic collusion.” The deal announced ...
Ambitious plan to store CO2 beneath the North Sea set to start operations
NORTH SEA, Denmark (AP) — Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote Nini oil field on Europe’s rugged North Sea slowly comes into view from a helicopter. Used to extract fossil fuels, the field is now getting a second lease on life as a means of permanently storing ...
Campbell’s fires executive who was recorded saying company’s products are for ‘poor people’
The Campbell’s Co. said Wednesday it has fired an executive who was recorded making racist comments and mocking the company’s products and customers. Martin Bally, a vice president in Campbell’s information security department, was named in a lawsuit filed last week by Robert Garza, a ...