Nov 24 - By Holly Ramer, Associated Press Writer
New Hampshire hotels and inns hope out-of-staters will stay as well as shop this holiday season.
Nov 18 - By Associated Press
Prosecutors say the owner of a storied New York City bagel business shortchanged the state out of a lot of dough by cheating on taxes.
Sep 28 - By Associated Press
A Tacoma gun shop linked to the D.C. sniper case isn't getting its firearms license back.
Jul 15 - By Associated Press
A teenager accused of bombing a Starbucks coffee shop in New York City will wear an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor his whereabouts as part of a deal to remain free on bail.
Jun 10 - By Kimberly S. Johnson, AP Auto Writers
There are 789 fewer Chrysler dealers this week. And by the end of next year, there will be 1,100 fewer General Motors dealers.

Jun 7 - By Associated Press
A topless coffee shop in Maine is now shopless after a fire, but waitresses are serving coffee again.

Jun 3 - By Glenn Adams, Associated Press Writer
A deliberately set fire destroyed a topless coffee shop early Wednesday, just hours after the owner talked with local officials about making the business more like a strip club, investigators said.
May 24 - By Associated Press
Prosecutors will review a complaint that a waitress from a Maine topless doughnut shop was outside the business without a shirt on.
Apr 24 - By Dan Nephin, Associated Press Writer
An elderly woman, her sister and her niece were found shot to death inside an auto glass business and a handgun similar to one owned by a relative was found nearby, police said.
Apr 17 - By Associated Press
Some customers at Starbucks shops around the Birmingham area have been getting an extra ingredient with their coffee: Kindness. Customers at shops in eastern Birmingham, Hoover and Vestavia Hills are paying it forward by anonymously picking up the tabs of others.
Mar 26 - By Associated Press
An upstate New York sandwich shop owner says plans to locate a slaughterhouse right next door will kill his business.

Dec 22 - By Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Retail Writer
The nation's stores are pulling all-nighters and deepening discounts in the final hours before Christmas, trying to draw in all the shoppers they can as they face dismal sales in what will likely end up as the worst holiday season in decades.
Dec 18 - By Associated Press
A Detroit-area postal worker has been charged with stealing gold from the mail after he tried to pawn his treasure to the shop that had shipped it.
Oct 17 - By Associated Press
Authorities said a 42-year-old man, dressed up like the elderly owner of a Baldwin County beauty parlor and tried to break into her shop so he could look at himself in a mirror. The man was wearing a blond wig when he allegedly attempted to burglarize a shop owned by Rose Stevens, 76. Deputies said the man told them he wanted to sit in the owner's chair and look at himself.

Jul 24 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
Forget long-winded foreign policy sessions, White House meetings, traveling the globe and talks with world leaders. What Condoleezza Rice really wants to do is shop.

Jul 7 - By AllisonLinn
There was a time when Betsy Baker would have been embarrassed to be seen shopping at Wal-Mart.
Jun 19 - By Eric Tucker, Associated Press Writer
The leader of the Narragansett Indian tribe was ordered Thursday to perform community service for brawling with state troopers during a police raid on a tribal smoke shop.
Jun 4 - By Associated Press
Police say a bomb explosion at a video shop has killed three people and wounded three in northwestern Pakistan.

Apr 4 - By Eric Tucker, Associated Press Writer
In a case that pit Rhode Island against its only federally recognized Indian tribe, the chief of the Narragansett and two other members were convicted Friday of misdemeanor charges related to a 2003 raid on a tribal smoke shop.
Apr 1 - By Associated Press
A man is dead after allegedly shooting and injuring a co-worker at a business south of Boston, then killing himself.

Feb 29 - By Ray Henry, Associated Press Writer
A trial pitting Rhode Island against its only federally recognized American Indian tribe opened Friday with prosecutors saying seven Narragansett Indians should be punished for blocking and fighting state police during 2003 raid on a tribal smoke shop.
Feb 19 - By Donna Abu-Nasr, Associated Press Writer
Saudi Arabia's religious police are under attack again over what critics consider heavy-handed enforcement of the country's gender segregation policies and other strict social rules.
Nov 22 - By Associated Press
It was at the Honey Dew Donut shop that Cyndi LaRose and her honey said, "I do."

Oct 9 - By Associated Press
A gunman shot a woman to death and wounded two men at a tire shop Tuesday, then apparently killed himself, police said.

Jun 16 - By Alex Dominguez, Associated Press Writer
Stephanie Cerneck doesn't go through the checkout line at her supermarket anymore. Or even the self-checkout line. She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she's done, she pays at a terminal at the front of the store.