Category Archives: Closing

Sears closing up to 120 stores as sales slide

By doris | Published: December 28, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com (Reuters) – Sears Holdings Corp will close as many as 120 of its Kmart and Sears discount and department stores after its holiday sales slumped, sending its shares sliding more than 27 percent to their lowest level in three years. The retailer, which is controlled by its chairman, the hedge fund [...]

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Occupy Chicago: At least 100 anti-Wall Street protesters arrested in Grant Park

By doris | Published: October 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com CHICAGO — At least 100 anti-Wall Street demonstrators were arrested early Sunday after defying police orders to clear out of a downtown Chicago park, authorities said. Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kaunert vowed after the arrests that the demonstrators would be coming back. “We’re not going anywhere. There are still plenty of [...]

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Dodge the draft and cut home heating costs

By doris | Published: September 20, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com (MONEY Magazine) — You don’t have to invest thousands in high-tech insulation or a super-efficient furnace to cut home heating costs. Just sealing drafts could lower your bills 3% to 18%, according to Danny Parker, a research scientist who works with the Department of Energy. In the high-heating-cost Northeast, that translates [...]

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Historic Manhattan hospital shuts doors

By doris | Published: May 3, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After 161 years of treating survivors of major catastrophes, from the sinking of the Titanic to the attacks of September 11, and leading early HIV treatments, New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital closed Friday. Faced with financial troubles and mounting debts, the historic hospital was forced to shutter its operations. [...]

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Closings loom for N.Y. parks, historic sites

By doris | Published: February 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ALBANY, N.Y. – No nuptials at Niagara Falls? Jones Beach off limits on a 90-degree day? The “Grand Canyon of the East” devoid of campers? New York’s state parks system, the nation’s oldest, is facing another round of funding cuts that is likely to result in the first budget-related closures in [...]

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Haiti quake gives Guantanamo new mission

By doris | Published: January 22, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The Haiti earthquake is giving the American base at Guantanamo Bay a new mission: supplying aid to the devastated island nation and potentially detaining thousands of Haitian migrants captured at sea. President Barack Obama’s deadline for closing the base prison expires Friday with no new [...]

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Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico

By doris | Published: April 25, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com MEXICO CITY – The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico’s most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. And while bars and nightclubs filled up as usual, even some teenagers were dancing with surgical masks on. [...]

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After 60 years Circuit City finally powers down

By doris | Published: March 9, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com RICHMOND, Va. – What began 60 years ago as a humble television store in this sleepy Southern capital ended Sunday as Circuit City closed its doors for good — its 567 remaining U.S. stores to be left broom clean and vacant. For the last month and a half, a group of [...]

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