Correction: Doughnut wars story

In a July 24 story about doughnut wars in New York, The Associated Press reported erroneously the 2008 sales figures and number of Dunkin' Donuts stores and also erroneously reported the sales at Tim Hortons stores.

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Worker fired for handing out measly freebie

We know companies are trying cut costs in this economy, but this is ridiculous: A worker at a Canadian restaurant chain was fired for giving a free bite-sized doughnut, worth 16 cents, to a small child.

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Wendy's Still Mulling Possible Sale

Wendy's International Inc. said changes at its restaurants are paying off, but that a decision about the possible sale of the nation's third-largest hamburger chain is taking longer than expected.

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Tim Hortons IPO Underwriters Buy Shares

Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc. said Tuesday that the underwriters of its initial public offering last week have exercised their option to buy an additional 4.35 million shares of common stock.

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Tim Hortons to Offer 29M Shares in IPO

Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc., which is owned by Wendy's International Inc., filed paperwork estimating it will offer 29 million shares in a price range of $18 to $20 per share in its upcoming initial public offering.

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On second thought, Tim Hortons will not be providing free coffee to a National Organization for Marriage celebration in Rhode Island this weekend.

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"The donut wars," several blogs and news organizations called them, as if a platoon of cinnamon crullers were advancing on a phalanx of glazed. The dispatches from the front were numerous — and impassioned. This was clearly a contest of the utmost consequence.

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Tim Hortons doughnuts are freshly made at each location, so when the Dining staff gathered for a blind tasting of doughnuts from Dunkin' Donuts and the newly arrived Tim Hortons, we expected to find traditional flavor in the box of upstarts. The results were more complicated.

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NEW YORK -- There is about to be a doughnut war in New York. Canadian institution Tim Hortons has announced that it will open 12 outlets in Manhattan on Monday, marking its first excursion into the Big Apple.

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Toronto, Ontario (AHN) - In response to Toronto's plan to push for a reduction in food packaging, doughnut chain Tim Hortons announced Monday it will place dedicated bins for coffee cups on its outlets in Toronto.

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THE Winnipeg Police Service has launched an internal review into the improper conduct of one of its officers who not only loaned a Taser to a doughnut shop employee but also took a photograph of the young man posing with the weapon. The probe comes after the Free Press brought t …

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Two weeks after an employee at a Tim Hortons in London was fired, then rehired, after she gave a child a free Timbit, Toronto investment manager Teresa Lee bought breakfast Wednesday for a pregnant homeless woman at a Tim Hortons downtown – then was scolded by a restaurant empl …

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An attendant at a Canadian restaurant who was sacked for giving a bite-sized doughnut, worth 16 cents, to an agitated toddler was given her job back after the case received wide media attention.

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Giving a free Timbit to a baby has cost a single mother of four her job. Nicole Lilliman, 27, was fired yesterday from her Tim Hortons job for giving one of the 16-cent blobs of fried dough to a tot. "I have been fired for giving a baby a Timbit," Lilliman said yesterday.

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An axe-wielding masked man who attempted to rob a Montreal-area doughnut shop didn't get any coffee but he did get creamed.

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Tim Hortons conquered Canada long ago. The doughnut chain boasts one outlet for every 12,700 Canadians - by comparison, one McDonald's exists in the United States for every 21,000 Americans and one Dunkin Donuts for every 56,000 Americans.

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McDonald's is making serious inroads in the coffee wars, while Dunkin' Donuts and Tim Hortons are rapidly expanding.

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The prime minister also spent about 30 minutes meeting with soldiers and posing for snapshots in his final day of a 36-hour surprise trip to Afghanistan. He has since left the country and is due back in Canada by Thursday.

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The Conservatives are wooing the Tim Hortons crowd for the next election, but the House of Commons has selected trendy Starbucks for a groundbreaking venture into brand-name coffee on Parliament Hill.

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The Sport That'll Knock Your Rocks Off

Despite play that elicits passionate screams of "Hurry Hard…h-a-r-der!….harder!…faster!," it has taken almost an ice age for curling to get traditional sports fans' rocks off.

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Instructions For Living--Giving Your Lover Driving Directions

You're hunting for a pick-your-own apple orchard in the country to stock up your fridge with baskets of Red Delicious and Macintosh.

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Police have ruled out terrorism as the cause of an explosion at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop in a trendy downtown area of Toronto on Sunday, killing one man.

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A man was reported to have blown himself up in the washroom of a Tim Hortons near one of the busiest intersections in Toronto.

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Mmm. Donuts.

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Mmm. Donuts.

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A high-profile Quebec lawyer is asking for a DNA test on a winning Tim Hortons coffee cup, claiming that his client is its rightful owner.

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School Girls fight over winning coffee.

Every year, Tim Hortons, a Canadian coffee shop, holds a promotion known as 'Roll up the Rim to Win'. Rolling up the rim of the paper cups, you can win anything from a free muffin or donut to a Toyota RAV4.

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File this under, "you know you have the most powerful brand name when..."

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It's progress... our soldiers should get what we can give them.

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Canadian Forces want to raise morale among troops deployed here by setting up the furthest flung coffee and doughnut franchise in the world: Tim Hortons Afghanistan.

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